Public schools ruining U.S. kids with 'indoctrination'

Public education in America today is almost the opposite of education, according to an education expert who calls the nation's schooling "indoctrination."

"This isn't some kind of huge national accident that all these legions of Ph.D experts and all these legions of committees and the U.S. Department of Education – it's not that they're just incompetent fools and don't know what they're doing," said international journalist and educator Alex Newman. "They want the system to be doing what it's doing, and that is destroying real education."

Real education, according to Newman, means developing knowledgeable, well-rounded Americans who can think critically, process information, make good decisions, support themselves and serve the needs of society.

In other words, real education produces productive members of a capitalist society.

"That's what you do in a free market," Newman said. "If you want to profit, you have to serve your fellow man. If you want to have a business, you have to make sure you're selling a product that they're willing to purchase at a price that they're willing to purchase.

"So that's what an education is, is to create an individual who can take care of themselves, who understands the Scripture, who understands history, who understands science, who understands, obviously, reading and writing and basic mathematics at the very least," he said.

Newman made these comments during a recent appearance on "The Jesse Lee Peterson Radio Show."

Jesse Lee Peterson, host of the show and a wildly popular WND columnist, already knew something was wrong with the American education system.

"One of the reasons I started my private school, BOND Leadership Academy, for boys and girls grades 1 through 12, was because I noticed that these boys and girls are not being educated – especially the boys. They're coming out dumbed down rather than educated," said Peterson, author of "Scam: How the Black Leadership Exploits Black America."

According to Newman, government schools are no longer teaching the components of a real education.

In Newman's book "Crimes of the Educators," co-authored with the late Samuel Blumenfeld, Newman condemned the "whole-word method" of teaching children to read. In this method, kids are taught to memorize words as if they were pictures, rather than sounding out the word based on the letters that form it. Newman calls it a "quack method" of teaching reading.

Newman also wrote in his book about how progressives have scrubbed the public schools of God and religion. He writes that they have rewritten American history textbooks to downplay patriotism and prepare children to be global citizens. They have confused children by focusing on mathematics to the exclusion of basic arithmetic, which people need to use in their daily lives, he says.

"Crimes of the Educators" reveals how the architects of America's public school disaster implemented a plan to socialize the United States by knowingly and willingly dumbing down the population

In the author's estimation, it all adds up to indoctrination.

"We need to draw a clear, defining line between education, which enables people to know how to think, versus what the government is doing today, which is indoctrination, training people what to think rather than how to think and how to process information and how to have critical thinking ability," Newman explained.

The public education system is too far gone to be saved, Newman argues, largely because progressive educators such as John Dewey designed it specifically to dumb down and indoctrinate children. Therefore, he says modern education reformers need to start over if they wish to save the system.

"If we're going to have government-provided education, we really need to start from the very beginning, from the very foundation and build on a new foundation that's based on proper reading, proper writing and real knowledge – not indoctrination," he said. "And for that to happen, we've got to start from scratch and we've got to build from there, because the system, I think, is too far gone, it's too corrupt to be salvaged."

It's possible for publicly educated children and adults to overcome the indoctrination, Newman asserted, but it's very difficult.

"If you subject yourself to a government school or you subject your children to a government school, you're automatically starting with a huge handicap because a government school is scientifically designed to dumb you down," he said. "And it is possible to bypass that, but it takes very, very hard work."

Those wishing to overcome the dumbing-down process need someone who can teach them to read properly, according to Newman. Once they can read well, they can acquire knowledge and truth independently and receive a real education.

"You're not going to get the truth out of the government schools any more than you're going to get the truth from the far-left media," Newman warned.

He offered further advice for adults wishing to educate themselves: Read books.

"They hide all the secrets in the books," he quipped. "Get books. Make sure you have a big library stocked with information on everything you need to know: history, economics, politics, culture, science – we all need to be well-rounded people, and if we're going to educate others, we need to be educated ourselves.

"So there's a lot of great sources out there, but I really recommend people just need to expand their libraries, get off of Facebook, turn off the TV, and educate yourself with books the old-fashioned way. I think there's really no shortcut."

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