Help with history
Posted: 2010-02-05 01:14am
A conservative (Im being nice here) friend of mine who happens to be a history buff sent me a paranoid email. Apparently pissed with Obama once again, I'm leaving out the part where he goes off about Obama mispronouncing corps (yes a guy who voted for Bush twice is pissed that obama mispronounced a word). Anyways he had some stuff about the progressive movement and I was wondering if someone who has a background in history could help me refute this.
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Blech sorry this is so dreadful to read. By the way does anyone know any good websites that refute the whole anti-progressive nonsense period. I get so sick of the Glenn Beck crowd going on about it?" He who controls the minds of the youth of a nation controls the future."
Give up ? It was Adolf Hitler. It was the entire purpose for the formation of the Hitler Youth Corp. Obama is doing the same; as is all left wing liberals in politics and in education. Look at the recent proposition proposed in North Carolina, which wants to teach American History in 11th.grade,but -but- BUT ! American History will start from the year 1877, not 1776 or before. Isn't that some what of a coincidence that the liberal "Progressive" movement in the United States started approximately at the same time in history?
A professor of philosophy at Columbia University and prolific author of philosophical,educational, and reform treatises, John Dewey (1859-1952) made his greatest contribution to the Progressive Movement through his works on educational theory and reform. Among these, his best-known works are The School and Society (1899) and Democracy and Education (1916), the latter of which gives the most comprehensive statement of his radical reconstruction of the theory and purpose of education as traditionally understood. Dewey eliminated religious conceptions of reality and substituted complete faith in the democratic ideal realized through state control of education. Remember, any child is a good spokesperson !!!!!!!!
It is also noteworthy to notice that in 9th.grade the North Carolina progressive cocksuckers propose to teach " Global History", which has special attention paid to topics like global warming. Talk about a fucking agenda, ha?
Fixed your quote tags. ~S