I know you’ve been thinking teaching essays is complicated and takes an English degree or some sort of truncated curriculum, but this isn’t true. The world is filled with essays. This post is an essay. Most magazine articles are essays. Most sermons are essays. If you’ve sat with someone and logically explained a movie, or described a family vacation, … Read More…
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So much harm has been done through our modern educational system. So many people are not being taught the basics. Even students who graduate with honors have trouble comprehending texts beyond the seventh-grade level.
Why is this?
Because our education system has been gradually dumbing us all down, and it has been deliberate.
It was all so gradual and seemingly effortless on my part that it was like magic.
Did you know that the first compulsory education law, passed in 1852 in Massachusetts, only required children from the ages of eight to fourteen to be in school for 12 weeks in the year, with only six of these being sequential?
Did you also know that students of that time enjoyed a literacy rate far above that of our modern day?
Why is this? Why don’t you know that schooling doesn’t have to take that much time or be that complicated?
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There are so many theories about education out there, and almost all of them are as dumb as rocks. Why? Because they take something that is already included in basic human understanding and turn a profit with it by some clever ad copy and redesigned packaging. You know, when you … Read More…