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Edward Jack Thompson
Education in America is in crisis. This Basic Education Series podcast discusses what's wrong with the educational system and how to create a renaissance in education.
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Once education included free will and the spiritual nature of man. An individual, taught how to think rationally, could make rational choices.
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Originally published as an article on World Net Daily:
The Tower of Psycho-babble in Education by Ed Thompson
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May your home know joy and every room ring with laughter.
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Once you compromise your integrity it becomes easy to be transformed by whatever environment the overlords manufacture, whether real or imagined.
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The Newsela educational program slides in on the innocence of youth and brings bias and indoctrination in through the back door.
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Science was once a world of rigorous research, a place where heated debate was normal, and where any idea had to stand on its merits. And now?
They are taught that hard work, competition, and excellence are tools of the oppressors to keep them down. They are taught to feel entitled.
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When the lack of intelligence makes the slow climb to the top of our institutions and our government it is time to sit up and take notice.
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What started 50 years ago with homophobia, now includes Islamophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, fatphobia and whorephobia. All require treatment.
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Words do matter. In a reasoning civilization, so do their definitions. Words are preferable to the pointing and grunting of the distant past.
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The scourge of modern mental health treatment is mind-altering drugs. Just a little pill, that’s all. What harm could that do? A lot, actually.
The visionary, the artist, the revolutionary. These are the civilization creators. Every generation has them and they all start out as children.
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Name one good reason why you would send potentially harmful electric voltage through a child’s brain. Bet you can’t. So leave them kids alone.
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US suicides are at an all time high. What you can be sure of is that the supposed authorities on the mind are wrong about the cause and the cure.
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The pen is mightier than the sword. We spend trillions on the finest swords money can buy. The pen is mightier than the sword? How can that be?
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I want the truth. You can’t handle the truth. So says the movie A Few Good Men. But how does one determine fact from fiction, truth from lies?
The woke left’s butchering of language would make Alice in Wonderland proud. Left is right, up is down and right is wrong. Don’t be fooled.
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It is tragically sinister to take advantage of the innocence and wonder of youth for such a corrupt purpose.
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With all the current craziness it’s easy to lose sight of the true focus of education. What is the method to the madness we call going to school?
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Why do some desperately seek a cure for childhood? I say, we don’t need no thought control. Leave them kids alone.
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Accent on disability. Why are the so-called educational experts obsessed with giving our children disability? Shouldn’t the accent be on Ability?
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What will happen if we inject all our children with an experimental mRNA, gene-manipulating shot? We just don’t know. (related links on my site)
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You need to ask yourself: Is this life-affirming, life-saving medical care or the mutilation and torture of our children? Well, which is it?
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Will our children drag the heavy chains of poisonous ideology into their future or dance in the open space of freedom? It’s up to you.
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Without grammar, communication is reduced to shouting out the names of things. Sound familiar? Is that where we are heading?
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Death by a thousand cuts. Why does critical race theory, anti-racism, drag queen story time and gender fluidity get a free pass into our schools?
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Neuromyths: Why is there still so much we don’t understand about the mind?
References for this episode can be found on my site: https://basiceducationseries.com/mythology-of-the-mind-references/
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Words are powerful. Used for good, words are uplifting and freeing. When used for evil, words are a black magic of destruction.
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Question: When everyone is equally dumb, does anyone really win? Answer: Winning is racist.
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Education can be a force for good or for evil. Why has education lost its way?
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How does a respected and accomplished doctor become an evil and dangerous quack? He disagrees with reigning government propaganda.
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There has been much hysteria in the news over a Florida education bill which opponents have dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill.
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In journalism “burying the lede” means hiding the main or most important point among distracting details.
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I’m Ed Thompson and I’m happy to be here talking to you on May 16, 2022.
This is the first of my Buried Lede podcasts which are intended to be a quick look at specific current events relating to education. It’s for those times when I just can’t let it go.
I read an article about parents in small town USA – actually it was Wentzville, Missouri, but it could have been any small city or town in America. The parents there were upset about the assignment content used in a high school government class. The question presented to students was as follows:
“Teresa has heard in the news about the fatal shootings of unarmed African American men by police officers but does not think it is necessarily due to racism. Teresa is MOST likely a:”
The choices were, “Democrat, black woman, Republican, Democrat-leaning woman.” According to the online exercise, the correct answer is Republican.
The parents contacted lawmakers and district officials believing the question was framed with a political agenda in mind. They also believe it’s divisive and not instructional.
Ya think? Talk about loaded. At the very least, it’s an obvious, ideological slant intended to paint Republicans as racists.
But here’s the insidious buried lede. The very question itself assumes as fact that police killing unarmed black men is a major problem and an epidemic in America.
Is that a valid assumption? The facts don’t support that at all. Statistics from our own government law enforcement agencies show quite the opposite. First, the actual number of incidents is very small, especially compared to the number of violent encounters police deal with each year. The police actually show incredible restraint when it comes to shooting anyone. And the true data shows that proportionally blacks are less likely to be shot by police than whites.
And that doesn’t even touch on the fact that 99 percent of black homicides are committed by other private citizens.
There IS a problem. Homicide is the number one cause of death for young black men. There is a horrible, unacceptable epidemic of shootings, but it is not being done by the police.
So, the idea that police are racist and out murdering unarmed black men is provably and decidedly false.
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This is the first in a series of podcasts on education that will complement the books in the Basic Education Series that I’m also creating.
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