Episode 12: What does "student centered" even mean? Anything?

Episode 12: what does student centered even mean? Anything?  Sept. 15, 2015When our top educators start suggesting that children can do their job better than they can, we need to let these people retire.---------------------------------------------------------------------------------The three recommended guides and an excellent work by each:Why Johnny Still Can’t Read by Rudolf FleschCrimes of the Educators by Samuel BlumenfeldWar Against Academic Child Abuse by Siegfried Engelmann -------------------------------------------------------------------------------I think the real reason the student-centered sophistry was concocted is that adults don't want to say no to children. if you're told that children wouldn't like a certain idea, you think, okay, let's get rid of it. You see how this turns the world upside down.Reading this article again, I realized that my favorite phrase is "truth centered."  In the last few years, I started to think of K-12 as a crime scene and a fraud. Not enough truth, that's the problem. Let's Fix Education explains to Americans why their schools are so bad. The people in charge prefer mediocrity because they are socialists of one kind or another. If people work together to promote real education, we'll have it.Support the show