“I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.” ~Eartha Kitt
By Catherine Austin Fitts
On Coast to Coast AM the other night I was asked what I thought of the Common Core Curriculum. I said I was not familiar with it. I then explained that I thought that the success of home schooling was proof that decentralization occasionally wins a big one. Motivated mothers remain a more powerful potent political force than Mr. Global.
After the show, I did a search for Common Core and realized that it was part of the wider effort – I believe – to build extraordinarily detailed databases on all children so they can be centrally tracked, managed and channeled. The goal is control, not education. Talk to one of the many fine teachers who have been driven from teaching by the mind numbing demand for standardized testing.
Upon reflection, I am struck by the similarity of the name between Main Core and Common Core. Are they part of the great core design of the Databeast? In light of our deeper appreciation of the application of information technology as a result of Mr. Snowden’s revelations, this is worth pondering.
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The reality of life in the United States is that the world is changing and many school and university curriculums are not anticipating the change. In addition, curriculums are often set by a variety of interests that do not always have the best intention of our children at heart. This means, whether through home schooling, supplemental education at home, and lifelong learning, we must each take responsibility to define the knowledge available, the knowledge and skills we wish to acquire and design our own evolving life time pathway to acquiring and maintaining the intellectual mastery we need. Once we are freed from the assumption that formal institutions know best, remarkable learning journeys can begin. We can dip into formal institutions to draw from the best as discerning knowledge and skill seekers. We need to assess and optimize the investment of our time and money.
If you want to access information on outstanding grade and high school curriculum, watch the documentary The School about Mikhail Shetinin’s remarkable school in Russia. One tool to add to our toolkit is knowledge about how money works. Once upon a time, I was asked to develop a curriculum to help a high school teacher teach economics to their students. Here it is: Economics 101.
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