Who Granted Permission to Spearhead Societal Evolution to a Global...
Not just once as an aside but multiple times. Loud and clear. No ambiguity. Well, at least not if you read the actual Bela Banathy book Systems Design of Education: A Journey to Create the Future that...
View ArticleThe Intentional Insurrection in Texas–Supers Override Governor, Legislature,...
Because the desired social, political, and economic Transformation is always the actual Goal behind all these ed reforms that become notorious, or will when fully implemented, I have joked that the...
View ArticleUsing Systems Thinking to Retie the Psychological Umbilical Cord to Our...
You know, I am pretty good at language, but I would never think to complain that: “By substituting visual marks for spoken utterances [that miracle of human ingenuity and the Axemaker Mind reverenced...
View ArticleProtected Producers vs Paying Consumers/Taxpayers:Who will Prevail on...
If we did not already understand just how much the entire legitimacy of individualism and free choices are at stake in what is being sought through education and the Sustainability Economic...
View ArticleSquelching Climate Skepticism While Employing Operant Conditioning Tactics...
For those of you who never took a psychology course and never helped turn BF Skinner’s troubling books into bestsellers, operant conditioning was his idea on training people so that their behavior...
View ArticleComparing the Real Common Core to Notorious Authoritarian Social Engineering...
Soviet collectivization of agriculture. The Tanzanian Ujamaa Villagization Plan. Brasilia. Le Corbusier. Lenin’s Plans for Revolutionary Submission. Clearing away Old Growth Forests for a Single Type...
View ArticleCreating New Minds, Different Values, Equity in Credentials: Can this Really...
Contrary to the slogans Prosperity really is not available by government fiat but it sure can torpedo it. Beyond regulation, poor choices by politicians and other officials with the power to distribute...
View ArticleBuilding a Compelling Future Political Coalition Around Advocacy for Keeping...
Former slave Frederick Douglass once said that “education . . . means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by...
View ArticleTearing Up the Fabric of a Free Society: The New College, Career and Civic...
I did not say impair. I did not say damage. I said Tear Up. Why such a dramatic statement? Because the week AFTER Obama was reelected (Nov 12) and then quietly put out more publicly during a holiday...
View ArticleChanging the Filtering Perception, the Way We See the World, is Key
Key to shifting the dominant Social World-view away from the fruits of the Enlightenment. Apparently modern-day Schemers who prefer to do our planning for us in the name of a theoretical Ecological...
View ArticleHyping Catastrophe to Eliminate the Supposed Mismatch Between Human Minds and...
Going through the actual Performance Assessments in the last post reminded me of what a useful mind altering and emotion manipulation tool they will be for someone like Climate and Population Alarmist...
View ArticleThe Need to Know as We Understand It Today May be a Lethal Cultural Sport
That needs to be radically restricted if not abolished root and branch. So said anthropologist Bernard James in his 1973 book The Death of Progress in a passage so reminiscent of Paul Ehrlich’s...
View ArticleAll That is Solid Melts Into Air–But Does It Really?
That provocative image from a famous 19th century political theorist hoping for dramatic future change was also meant to Prime a Feeling for Planned Complete Transformation. Both within individuals at...
View ArticleWe are at the Historical Stage for the Emergence of One Particular New Kind...
The ‘portfolio person.’ Before I enrage most of you by quoting that definition in a stomach-churning way, I want to continue on the theme from the title of the last post. It is what caused me to pick...
View ArticleNow More Than Five Years Into An Attempt to Help Organize A Near-Total...
Now won’t Performance Assessments and a total alteration of the nature of education come in really handy for such a goal? That title is from an August 7, 2012 presentation in Portland, Oregon by Paul...
View ArticleWho Knew Karl Marx had a Human Development Model? Or that It Fit Our Facts So...
Or that it could be put in place in the US by executive fiat at the federal level? All you have to do is misinterpret the nature and language and case law of the federal civil rights laws. And then...
View ArticleIsn’t It Political Sabotage to Use Education to Eliminate the Assumption that...
Yes I am in a feisty mood today. I am angry at the level of deception and duplicity surrounding the actual Common Core implementation and where this is all going. Or was until some of these...
View ArticleNothing As Practical As a Good Theory For Gaining Access to Action Research
If a political theory gets you grant money or a job at a foundation, it “works” whether it is true or not. And puts its creator in a position to drive social change. The same is true with a learning...
View ArticleThrowing an Invisibility Cloak Over the Classroom to Get to Dewey’s...
The IHDP report from 2011 laying out the use of education “reforms” all over the world to shift all of us towards Societal Change talks about the need of a “positive vision for the future” to mobilize...
View ArticlePromoting Alternative Thinking Strategies: Is This Really Mental Health...
Let’s say the political transformation truth came out instead of talking about the Common Core as a means of creating common content expectations from state to state using common tests (neither of...
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