“Non dare call it education” by John A. Stormer: a review

The large majority of Ameri butt children atomic number 18 amend in public schools. Now, many an(prenominal) pargonnts inception asking themselves whats happening to our schools. why do schools produce children, who are ineffectual to read, hold open or calculate, why do schoolchildren risk to be killed in shooting, what are the primers for dramatic fall of moral amid American teenagers.The book Non make bold recollect It Education by fanny A. Stormer was aimed to investigate the adverse so farts, which take place in the public schools throughout America. The author brings in horrible examples of ignorance, illiteracy, criminal activities (including shooting at schools), alcoholism, drug addiction, moral downfall, early pregnancies and some other failures inside our cultivational institutions. Having analyzed statistics, tests information and newspaper reports, witnessing the above stated, the author shoots a conclusion, that American educational outline appeared in a state of deep crisis, caused by crude educational innovations.Stormer determines two prefatorial reasons for degeneracy of school system. The first reason is simplification and primitivization of teaching process. For example, no maintenance is longer paid to sort spelling. Children are encouraged to guess how words are pronounced and written, when they look at the pictures in spite of being taught to read and write the word.Correct spelling in such(prenominal) approach is said to be a work of computer. Mathematics textbooks teach children, that correct calculation is also non important, because it can be done by computers, so children are tolled to guess of the result, not to take it by themselves1. Downfall of students educational aim results in downfall of teachers level. Stormer brings an example of mum testing for incoming teachers in 1998, where 56% of candidates failed. In order to help to a greater extent teachers pass, the take Board of Education had to take do wn the standards of tests2.The second problem with recent educational reforms is that even the smartest children have to undergo artful techniques, which sort their thinking encourages. They have to scoop faulty humanistic and universal values, to reverse future leaders of new well-disposed order. Stormer points, that there are many devoted teachers at schools, however, the system of education itself is ill due to government attempts not unless to educate, but to transpose the thoughts and feelings of students to make them correct.The most destructive chemical element of such manipulative flips, as Stormer believes, is undermining of conventional values, resulting in destructive social processes. comparability textbooks, which were issued 40 years ago and moderne ones, the author pointed 12 basic values, which appeared to be undermined, including marriage an family, paternal authority, substitution of situational ethical motive with absolute terms of good and bad, change of attitude towards national independence and sovereignty.In chapter 2 he gives an example of Illinois nation Board of Education, which gave a test to eleventh grade students in Illinois schools with provoking questions about(predicate) their sexual behavior. The tests caused much public indignation, and the newspapers blamed, that educational bureaucrats were determined to force their vision of permissive sex education on parents and students even when the vision conflicts with Illinois law. However, almost no reaction of authorities followed, and an information was passed, that the Illinois State Board of Education acted under instructions of supreme bodies3.Stormer specially notices, that he does not write about a conspiracy, because educational reforms are conducted openly with a declare aim to substitute intellectual reading with vocational development. Public schools are substituted with inculcates-to-Work. As Henry Hyde a Chairman of the U.S. kinfolk of Representative s Judiciary Committee noticed, Behavior limiting is a significant part of restructuring our schools. School children will be trained to be politically correct, to be unbiased, to understand diversity, to convey alternative life-styles..4. The modification of school system under Stormer is a systematic action, openly and deliberately conducted by the government to change the entire American society.The main value of the book is that it attracts attention to the destructive phenomena in our education and provides a good actual summary of such phenomena. Stormer attempts to explain those trends systematically and in a way succeeds. However, he does not provide any system of actions to overcome the situation. The book is written from handed-down position and attributes all failures to undermined values and government efforts, not taking other factors into account, such as massive migration of poorly educate persons or objective factors of social change in the postindustrial era. M oreover, the book concentrates only on the worst things, not analyzing irresponsible effects of educational reforms, therefore, it appears to be a little overweighted.ReferencesJohn A. Stormer (1998), None Dare resound It Education, Florissant MO, Liberty Bell argue 1 John A. Stormer (1998), None Dare Call It Education, Florissant MO, Liberty Bell Press, p.- 17 2 John A. Stormer (1998), above note, p- 21 3 John A. Stormer (1998), supra note, p-56 4 John A. Stormer (1998), supra note, p-117