973 – Sound it out—the failure of state education
The dumbing down of the Anglosphere was no accident. With 'public education' primarily monopolized by governments, this should come as no surprise because most of those governments are on the Left.
In their hands, state education is a powerful tool to indoctrinate students with false histories, moral relativism, and Marxist ideologies. As Marx himself noted, "People deprived of their history are easily persuaded."
And in addition to all the propaganda, there is an alarm being raised about the degree of outright illiteracy among Western populations, coupled with an abandonment of a common moral standard and of individual responsibility.
Immersed in school systems that promote cultures of victimhood based on a false polarity of the oppressor versus the oppressed, today's youth have become outright socialists, communists and fascists, incapable of relating to the values that allow them the freedom to express their hatred of freedom and capitalism.
Perhaps the most difficult to understand failure of state education is how and why so many people are able to 'graduate' from state schools utterly unable to read or write.
Blame it on a 'philosophy' called 'Whole Language.'
If that term is unfamiliar, it could be because there are so many variants of this language ideology that most are unaware of its problematic existence.
Over the years, variants of 'Whole Language' have been promoted as universal instruction, the visual method, look-and-say, whole word, word method, sight reading, top-down, whole-to-part, top-to-bottom, real books, the Aldine Method, the Scott Foresman Method, whole language, psycholinguistics, the alternative approach and graphophonics, among many others.
The reason for all the labels is to disguise the fundamental fact that none of these methods are effective at teaching people how to read. And that's exactly how state educators want it.
The hostility displayed by public educators towards the use of phonics in the teaching of reading speaks to a deeply sinister agenda. Since reading fluency empowers the individual and independence, state educators do everything they can to create an illiterate society incapable of critical thinking.
The public must hold its politicians and educational institutions accountable for the dismal state of education today. That effort can begin by teaching our public educators to sound it out for themselves: phonics is the best and proven way to teach reading in a way that is Just Right.