Saturday, December 26, 2009

Extra Credit ++ Books To Read To Expand Your Mind

The Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen

The Leipzig Connection by Paolo Lionni - the complete book with more details & facts about the scam known as modern education and psychology.

Pavlov's Children: A Study of Performance-Outcome-Based Education by Ann Wilson

Why Johnny Can't Read: And What You Can Do About It by Rudolph Flesch

NEA: Trojan Horse in American Education by Samuel L. Blumenfeld

Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling by John Taylor Gatto

Separating School & State: How to Liberate America's Families by Sheldon Richman

Educating for the New World Order by Bev Eakman

Cloning of the American Mind: Eradicating Morality through Education by Beverly Eakman

The Teachers' Unions: How the NEA and AFT Sabotage Reform and Hold Students, Parents, Teachers, and Taxpayers Hostage to Bureaucracyer by Myron Lieberman

The Whole Language/OBE Fraud: The Shocking Story of How America Is Being Dumbed Down by Its Own Education System by Samuel L. Blumenfeld

Outcome Based Education: The State's Assault on Our Children's Values by Peg Luksik

Outcome Based Education: Understanding the Truth About Education Reform by Ron Sunseri

Dumbing Down Our Kids: Why America's Children Feel Good About Themselves but Can't Read, Write, or Add by Charles J. Sykes

Profscam: Professors and the Demise of Higher Education - by Charles J. Sykes

Illiberal Education: The Politics of Race and Sex on Campus - by Dinesh D'Souza

Inside American Education : The Decline, the Deception, the Dogmas - by Thomas Sowell

Conflict of Interests : The Politics of American Education - by Joel Spring

The following books are written by members of the education or psychology establishment. They are generally "logical" within the framework of their own (generally unexamined or incorrect) basic assumptions, but the conclusions and results of applying their methods are largely disastrous. B. F.Skinner raised his daughter in a "Skinner Box" (a large rat box...) - she committed suicide at age 21. So much for B.F. Skinner's methods! Read them with a very careful eye!

Dewey On Education - by John Dewey

Democracy and Education - by John Dewey

The School and Society - by John Dewey

Experience and Education - by John Dewey

About Behaviorism - by B. F. Skinner

Beyond Freedom and Dignity - by B. F. Skinner

Behaviorism - by John Watson

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