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

The vast majority of American children atomic number 18 educated in public schools. Now, many parents start asking themselves whats happening to our schools. wherefore do schools produce children, who are unable to read, frame or calculate, why do schoolchildren risk to be killed in blastoff, what are the reasons for dramatic dip of moral between American teenagers.The book Non Dare Call It cultivation by John A. Stormer was cultivateed to investigate the adverse eventidets, 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 other failures inside our educational institutions. Having analyzed statistics, discharges data and radicalspaper reports, witnessing the above stated, the author makes a conclusion, that American educational system appeared in a state of deep crisis, caused by cru de educational innovations.Stormer determines two basic reasons for degeneracy of school system. The world-class reason is simplification and primitivization of teaching process. For example, no attention is longer stipendiary to correct spelling. Children are encouraged to guess how words are sound out and written, when they look at the pictures in spite of being taught to read and write the word.Correct spelling in such approach is said to be a work of computer. Mathematics textbooks teach children, that correct calculation is alike not important, because it can be done by computers, so children are tolled to guess of the result, not to count it by themselves1. Downfall of students educational take results in downfall of teachers level. Stormer brings an example of Massachusetts testing for incoming teachers in 1998, where 56% of candidates failed. In order to help more teachers pass, the State carte du jour of Education had to lower the standards of tests2.The second proble m with recent educational reforms is that even the smartest children have to downstairsgo manipulative techniques, which change their thinking value. They have to aim faulty humanistic and universal values, to become future leaders of new hearty order. Stormer points, that there are many devoted teachers at schools, however, the system of education itself is ill due to government attempts not however to educate, but to change the thoughts and feelings of students to make them correct.The most destructive instalment of such manipulative changes, as Stormer believes, is undermining of traditional values, resulting in destructive social processes. Comparing textbooks, which were issued 40 years ago and modern ones, the author pointed 12 basic values, which appeared to be undermined, including marriage an family, paternal authority, substitution of situational ethics with imperious terms of good and bad, change of attitude towards national independence and sovereignty.In chapter 2 he gives an example of Illinois State Board of Education, which gave a test to 11th grade students in Illinois schools with provoking questions most their awakeual behavior. The tests caused often 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 declared aim to substitute intellectual development with vocational development. Public schools are substituted with Schools-to-Work. As Henry Hyde a Chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee noticed, behavior modification is a significant part of restructu ring our schools. School children will be trained to be politically correct, to be unbiased, to understand diversity, to accept ersatz 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 briny value of the book is that it attracts attention to the destructive phenomena in our education and provides a good factual summary of such phenomena. Stormer attempts to explain those trends systematically and in a way succeeds. However, he does not provide any scheme of actions to overcome the situation. The book is written from traditional position and attributes all failures to undermined values and government efforts, not taking other factors into account, such as considerable migration of poorly educated persons or objective factors of social change in the postindustrial era. Moreover, the book concentrates only on the worst things, not analyzing electroposi tive effects of educational reforms, therefore, it appears to be a little overweighted.ReferencesJohn A. Stormer (1998), no(prenominal) Dare Call It Education, Florissant MO, Liberty Bell Press 1 John A. Stormer (1998), no(prenominal) Dare Call It Education, Florissant MO, Liberty Bell Press, p.- 17 2 John A. Stormer (1998), in a higher place note, p- 21 3 John A. Stormer (1998), supra note, p-56 4 John A. Stormer (1998), supra note, p-117