Monday, September 5, 2022

The Knowledge Gap: The Hidden Cause of America’s Broken Education System—and How to Fix It

The Knowledge Gap

  • D. E. Hirsch Jr., distinguished scholar of comparative literature, is the most important advocate for K-12 education reform of the past seventy-five years
  • The primary problem in American public education is not the high schools, but the poorly organized, ineffective elementary school curricula
  • Progressive educational assault on traditional American education had another source, which might be called "soft utopianism"
  • Students must "learn to read" well early on so as to "read to learn" for high school and college and the rest of their lives

Francis Schaeffer

  • Thousands of pregnancy centers throughout the United States and many pro-life organizations deserve our praise.
  • Countless individuals over the past fifty years have worked tirelessly toward securing the right to life for the unborn-many of whom will only be fully recognized in eternity for their influential roles.
  • One man in particular who made so much of this possible, and deserves much of the credit, is the “Father” of the Pro-life Movement among protestants: Francis “Son of Francis” Shaeffer, who believed each and every individual-regardless of their age, status, race, nationality-had immeasurable worth as a human being, and therefore, had inherent dignity.

https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2022/09/spare-the-truth-spoil-the-child 

No comments: