Alex Newman has written an excellent article in the February 4th issue of The New American magazine entitled From Educational Excellence To Mediocrity in which he brings up several issues I have also dealt with in the past. He noted that the Puritans in Massachusetts were “outliers in America” in the area of having the […]
Remembering America’s Most Courageous Teacher It is with a heavy heart that we mourn the passing of a revolutionary educator, John Taylor Gatto. Gatto spent nearly 30 years as a teacher in the infamously rough New York City public school system. He was awarded New York City Teacher of the Year three consecutive years while […]
If Horace Mann set out education’s goals, it was John Dewey who provided the progressive methodology. The story of American public education begins with Horace Mann. It was Mann who popularized the idea that American schools should teach all students, be non-sectarian, and tax-supported. A little less than a half-century passed between Mann’s death and […]
We were warned over 175 years ago that education could become a tool of indoctrination. Now it is undeniably being used as such. The father of America’s public education system, Horace Mann, famously quipped: “Men are cast-iron, but children are wax.” Mann knew that education was never a “value-neutral” proposition. It has always been and […]
New data compiled by a Boston-based a public policy group reveals that homeschooling has gained in popularity and reach in recent decades. A report issued this week by The Pioneer Institute, a Boston-based a public policy think tank, sheds light on the rapid growth and diversity of the U.S. homeschooling population. Co-authored by William Heuer […]
The National Education Association meets every year for a big national convention in some city or other and teachers from all over the country show up for this event. An agenda is usually presented showing all the things nationally that the NEA is either for or against. In the past several years they have presented […]
Publisher’s Note: At Metropolis Café, we are fans of neither Horace Mann nor John Dewey. Although Mann had some interesting opinions (and some were damned good), the direction of both of these individuals – were of a Socialistic bent toward Indoctrination – not Education. ~ J.B. Getting your picture on a U.S. stamp, even a […]
Part I ~ Comrade Dewey and Cultural Genocide Cultural genocide, the planned and willful destruction of a culture (in this case a Christian culture), is accomplished in many ways. The orchestrated destruction of a culture is accomplished by the tearing down of the flags and symbols of that culture and the destruction of its historical […]
On January 16th I read an article by James Ostrowski about public schools in Buffalo, New York and why they are not making the grade (no pun intended). Mr. Ostrowski is a trial and appellate lawyer in Buffalo, New York and also the author of a book called Progressivism: A Primer on the Idea Destroying […]
‘Take me out to the Ballgame…’ ~ when it was still a ‘sport.’ An irrepressible son of New York City, Ford joined the pantheon of baseball legends who dominated the 1950s and ’60s. Whitey Ford, the Yankees’ Hall of Fame left-hander who was celebrated as the Chairman of the Board for his stylish pitching and […]
~ Foreward ~ Since the election of 2016, and the (s)election of Donald Trump as President of the United States, there has been a constant barrage of accusations regarding Russian involvement in the intervention of said election. That which you are about to read would more than indicate involvement by the Russians in a previous […]