Episode 181: My Italy Speech Revisited (Wed, Dec. 18, 2024)

Episode 181: My Italy Speech Revisited  (Wed, Dec. 18, 2024)————————------------------------------------------------------------—Italian is said to be the most beautiful language, the most phonetic language. Unfortunately, their Education Establishment was like ours and wanted to replace beauty with sight-words.A reform group invited me over to give a speech. It's a quick summary of what the Reading Wars were about. I say the whole thing is a con. You have to give it to these meddlers, they know how to take down a country.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------The contents page from Saving K-12 shows clearly the kind of themes that I enjoy analyzing:INTRODUCTION          1. CULTURE WARSSomebody does not like our culture          2. READING WARSWhy we have 50,000,000 functional illiterates          3. MATH WARSStudents reach college not knowing what 7 x 8 is          4. HISTORICALLY SPEAKING100 years of dumbing down           5. THEORIES AND METHODS IN THECLASSROOMEvery fad turns out to be a foolish idea          6. COMMON CORE ENSHRINES THE WORSTThat's how you know they aren't sincere          7. LITERARY FLIGHTSWho says serious has to be boring          8. GUILTYAre they merely clumsy or carefully aiming for mediocrity          9. MOVERS AND SHAKERSWe need our big shots to move and shake more than they do          10. WHAT TO DOSuggestions for repairing the damage------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Listen to PODCAST or read TRANSCRIPT.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------For a 2-page explanation of how everyone can help,visit  Education Reform  When you need a smart gift, give Saving K-12 .-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Word-Wise Education757-455-5020Bruce Deitrick Price----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bio: Bruce Deitrick Price is a novelist, artist, poet, and education reformer. >>>Don't hesitate to read episodes at random.Everything on this podcast is up to datebecause educrats cleverly stifle improvement. That's the tragedy we need to fix.Subscribe / Support the showLowest sub is $3/mo, set by Buzzsprout,I don't know why. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------W   H   A   T      T   O       E   X   P   E   C   T 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