Memo to Homeschooling Parents: New Book Can Help The Cause

New book explains what the public schools do wrong...These insights will make Education Establishment less arrogant and less likely to harass homeschoolers.

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Memo to Homeschooling Parents: New Book Can Help The Cause

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(Free-Press-Release.com) May 2, 2009 --I write a great deal about the problems in education. My main message is that our educators don’t do a very good job. For a long time they’ve been sidetracked by social engineering schemes, with the result that they often seem more concerned with dumbing kids down than with smartening them up. (There, in a nutshell, is the main reason why people turned to homeschooling in the first place.)

Bottom line, I tend to think that our educators are not very expert at education. Their track record suggests they should be exceedingly humble about giving advice on this subject. But here we come to what is exactly the problem: the government and its experts seem all too ready to harass homeschoolers, as if the government has all the correct answers. A claim which is almost comical.

I have no personal involvement in homeschooling, but my impression is that these parents are dedicated and usually find the better ways (textbooks, etc.) to teach things. In any event, we need homeschooling because we need as much diversity and competition as we can get -- private schools, charter schools, homeschooling, whatever. It’s vital that the government PROTECT homeschooling, not intrude upon it.

I have more than 120 education articles on the Internet; I just collected my favorite excerpts into a book called "The Education Enigma." It’s not at all about homeschooling. But as I was wrapping up this project, I had an unexpected thought: if this book is widely read, the main beneficiary might well be homeschoolers. That’s because "The Education Enigma" is a critical look at what the educators are doing to the children of America. I’m trying to educate the public about educators! My goal is to make the public more insightful about what goes on in schools; and I want thereby to make the Education Establishment less quick to think itself omniscient. In fact, there’s a lot these so-called experts might apologize for!

Let me just give one of many possible examples. The USA has 50 million functional illiterates. The schools created these people by using a defective pedagogy known as Whole Word, Sight Words, etc. Now, if the public understood how great this damage was, and how completely unnecessary, I suspect that educators would not have the elbow room to elbow homeschoolers. But ask yourself this question: have you ever met even a very educated person who could explain to you why Whole Word doesn’t work? Obviously, it would be very helpful If everyone understood this issue.

“The Education Enigma--What Happened To American Education” is a fast, lively book with 50 short sections that cover just about every education subject people might want to know about: phonics, John Dewey, constructivism, sophistry, Dolch Words, dyslexia, Latin, the art of teaching, robots, birds, Montessori, critical thinking, Taoism, etc. In sum, this is an intellectual buffet. On a practical level, think of it as a self-defense manual. (It’s available on Amazon, which has a feature called Look Inside which lets you sample the book. Paperback, 136 pages, $14.99. Great gift.)

Additionally, the main theme of this book can be immediately found in a new article on the author's site Improve-Education.org, called “38: Saving Public Schools” (you can Google that title).

Here’s another bit of the story that gives a lot of perspective: I just read (and reviewed on Amazon) a book titled “Educational Wastelands--The Retreat from Learning in our Public Schools” by George Bestor...It was a shock to find that he was writing about all the things that I write about. But long ago. This book was published in 1953! What has gotten better? What will get better until the public understands that public schools have been deliberately dumbed down--and must be deliberately improved.

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Bruce Deitrick Price is is the founder of Improve-Education.org. His fifth book is titled THE EDUCATION ENIGMA: What Happened to American Education.

More information can be found online at http://www.Improve-Education.org

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