An Idea Whose Time Has Come: Anti-College

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Here, world, is my contribution to human progress.

Look, we have a real problem anymore with our colleges and universities turning young people into useless quaking idiots. Like, how are we supposed to run a country full of thin-skinned little nits who collapse into fetal position the moment they see or hear something they don’t like, and whose idea of being well-informed consists of being able to name 50 different genders?

So it looks like we’ll have to set up anti-colleges and anti-universities to try to undo some of the havoc that’s been wrought with students’ minds, try to straighten out some of what’s been twisted and tangled upstairs, and maybe after four years come up with someone who’s actually employable.

By that time, of course, they’ll be thirty years old or even older–but better late than never. Without anti-college, we’ll just have millions of ninnies on the dole, watching each other’s ponytails grow grey.

If we don’t get conquered first by anyone who thinks that would be worth doing.

Anti-college! Because someone has to clean up the mess.

In Memorium: Sam Blumenfeld

A great champion of literacy and homeschooling has died.

Sam Blumenfeld (1927-June 1, 2015) worked tirelessly for decades to expose the fraud of public education and to pioneer home education. He labored to restore the practice of learning how to read by first learning phonics and the alphabet–a method vastly superior to the “word recognition” bushwa taught in many public schools.

I never had the privilege of meeting Sam, but I did help edit one of his books, Revolution via Education. Sam wrote many books on the history of education and on reading, including The Victims of Dick and Jane, Alpha-Phonics: A Primer for Beginning Readers, The Alpha-Phonics Readers, and How to Tutor, just to name a few. All of his books are available from The Chalcedon Foundation ( http://www.chalcedon.edu–just click “Store” and “Books”). While I’m at it, I must also recommend R.J. Rushdoony’s The Messianic Character of American Education–in which the creators and developers of public education reveal and condemn themselves in their own published words.

When Sam began crusading for home education, it was virtually illegal in most states. Now homeschooling is the fastest-growing form of education in America, no small thanks to him.

As a member of the Chalcedon family, I share in its mission to reform education by taking it out of the hands of teacher unions and the government and restoring it to families and churches where it belongs. The shortcomings and abuses of public education are too numerous to mention here (see, for instance, yesterday’s post, http://leeduigon.com/2015/06/04/public-school-assignment-find-mom-and-dads-sex-toys/ ). But Sam set us all an example of undaunted perseverance.

We know, as he knew, that the single greatest boon to America would be the end of public education. The rest of us will carry on where Sam left off.