If you or someone you know still asks why functional literacy has tanked, why Activist social issues & explicit sexuality ed has primacy over & above traditional academics, read this thread breaking down Blumenfeld’s essay:
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55/If you’ve read down this far you’re hard core. I’ve posted a few of the references if anyone want’s to dig in. It helps a lot to have digested most of @NewDiscourses output to appreciate the depth/scope of what this essay presents, but so well worth for current understanding.
@WatcherinTexas ‘The Right’ is a foil to ‘The Left’ in Fabian strategy. A dialectical mechanism for manoeuvre/corralling. Hence the distraction of Party Politics. ‘The Right’ is as instrumental to pragmatic purposes as ‘The Left’.
@jaybird_b Yes, quite the lineage.
@jaybird_b Comitted to The Great Work
@Orchidoptera @NewDiscourses yw
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Blurring of distinctions (not only violates 1st Principles) but also ‘creates a practical public legal [& pedagogical] & political problem; absent Creator👉Creation clarity, there can be no justified preference for liberty as opposed to tyranny’. No REASON only “preference”.
2/That👆was where I found myself when 1st needing to push back against the woke onslaught in Education. In a subjectivist pit, with no awareness of how to get out, or even that it was possible to. I didn’t know what the foot-holes were or where the ladder was. My resistance to..
3/Woke ideology & Progressive pedagogy was framed to me as an uniformed, reactionary refusal to let go of ‘what no longer holds worth, value, relevance’ and even is now ‘harmful’. I didn’t believe a word of this but only had opinion to support myself with, which rendered my…
As promised; a 🧵of threads from ‘Bending The Twig’ in its entirety - the most significant resource I’ve shared on this platform. Well worth book marking as it sets out the source of Education subversion & demonstrates how it has always been about Constitutional Liberty.
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‘It was the uniquely American school of philosophy, Pragmatism, which ultimately displaced Reid’s SCSR in America’
(Kim Riddlebargar - pics 1 & 2) ~ pics 3 & 4 Emmanuel Renault
I research these philosophical threads not because I’m “interested in philosophy” No🙄😣…….
2/ I do this because there is a forensic trail threading backwards from current Critical Constructivist (Woke) Education PoliticoPedagogues back to John Dewey (Father of Western Education & Teacher Training) who subverted & supplanted the meaning of ‘Liberal’ through his……
3/Wundt derived Lab techniques rooted in philosophical pragmatism. Pragmatism grew out of St Louis Hegelianism. It was Pragmatism which ultimately displaced Thomas Reid’s Scottish Common Sense Realism in America. This is how the Intellectual Preparation Of The Environment (IPE)..
🧵Continuation of ‘Bending The Twig’ (Rudd)
‘As a natural concomitance, there follows the downgrading of nationalism. Patriotism & nationalism were not Sophist interests.’
Do you see now why I wanted to learn about the Enlightenment philosophers who were against Sophistry!!
2/‘Hegel - stressed the vital need & worth of an autocratic state’
‘Marx - one of THE MOST IMPORTANT INFLUENCES IN SHAPING THE “NEW” EDUCATION FROM WHOSE FFEVTS WE ARE NOW SUFFERING’
3/‘where the education pragmatism (PRAXIS) of Dewey & the political collectivism (CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS) of Marx interface.
@ClassicLibera12 we’ve been saying Dewey provided the means (pedagogy) of conditioning generations into Marxism below the threshold of their awareness.
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‘the great value of history - not to live in the past but to illuminate the present & safeguard the future’
Past-Present-Future linear “progression” has been a way to invalidate the eternally present dynamics of human nature & cosmos.
2/‘This sabotage of history springs from Dewey’s “Activity Program”. Memory work is discarded or minimized’
Why people educated this way, when they first become aware of current corruption & lies, fall straight into the arms of Pied Pipers & Con Op shills, without discernment.
3/‘the structure of history dies not lend itself to the technique of social studies’
Of course not!! Social Studies was an operational strategic tool - a purposed means of non physical lobotomizing of domestic population in order to:
🧵Continuation of ‘Bending The Twig’ (Rudd)
‘And what of the scholarly disciplines, the concentration, perseverance & intellectual training so essential to the acquisition of knowledge, judgement & logic?’
(Remember the relationship of‘judgement’to Reality
‘Activity’ pic 3 Wundt
*Activity - pic 4 (not 3)
2/‘useful in training animals, but fatally defective in dealing with humans possessed of intelligence & a conscience (Imago Dei)’
Here we see Thorndike/Wundt behaviourist pedagogy, purposed to condition beasts of burden, fit only to engage in stimulus-response action/reaction.