How to Fix YOUR Education

My SUPA Presentational Speaking class is giving Informational Presentations. I went first. "How to Fix YOUR Education" was my presentation to the class. While I am not comfortable with how it sounded or looked, this recording has given me insight as to how I can improve future presentations.

I used the first part of the presentation to explain the origins of school, then I went into the 14 points of Education that the Private Boarding Schools to educate our Overlords. Thanks to John Taylor Gatto, Jonathan Hickman, and Aaron Glazer for presenting me with this information 12 years ago.

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I gave a short presentation, "Why School is Broken and How We Can Fix it Free". Google video edited it into a short video. It's valuable to see how you look when you're presenting, so you get a better view of what to fix, and how to improve your body language. 

I'll upload the entire presentation later today. I don't like how I look or sound, but part of the learning process is to deal with things the way they are, not the way we wish them to be. 

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Gary North Talks to Ron Paul about Homeschooling

I subscribed to GaryNorth.com for 5 years.  It taught me a lot and changed my life.  While that sounds dramatic, it's true.  I learned about libertarian economics, the free market, and politics.  North has been around the block a few thousand times, and he shares his knowledge with everyone.  He shared the choice bits of information with his subscribers.  North was Ron Paul's staff economist - back in the mid 1970's.  After a short stint in DC, he became a newsletter writer, columnist, and keeper of the Freedom Torch.

I have followed in his footsteps.

This interview about homeschooling with Ron Paul is worth your time.  Dr. Paul is one of the few politicians I listen to.  He understands the origins of public schooling, as well as its real purpose.  I didn't know anything about any of this until I came across John Taylor Gatto's work and Gary North.  

Let's listen to some sage wisdom together.

Newsletter #15 – My Presentation to Students About Schule.

I gave a presentation today to both of my senior classes. I presented an informational, 8-minute talk on school, its origins, and how to fix it.

In the class, the students must rate the speaker and the presentation overall. I got pretty good marks. I also had someone record the presentation, so I could see how I look in real life. I didn’t give myself good marks for that. If you ever want to suffer, force yourself to watch your own presentation. I look like a poorly trained used car salesman, and I sound even worse.

The feedback the students gave me was useful, both for my online side projects, but also for letting me know what piqued their curiosity.

Many students were shocked to learn that:

· School was not created in America. It was birthed in Germany.

· The reason for creating school was to teach Germans to follow orders.

· It takes 15,000 hours to complete your K-12 schooling.

· Literacy in early America was around 97%- and the standards were higher then.

· The Private Boarding schools that produce our leaders follow a very different program.


Because I had only 8 minutes to work with, I wasn’t able to go deeper, but the classes were receptive and, naturally, appreciative of learning. A few even wrote in their evaluations that they had many questions after hearing what I had told them.

This reaction of curiosity is the key. I’ve talked to adults about this and they recoil in anger and frustration. It’s almost as if I had personally insulted them. Usually they call me names (Conspiracy Theorist being the most popular), then they run away.

My belief is that there is hope and salvation when someone is interested in odd, or unorthodox information – and wants to know more.

I never thought I would write this, but perhaps we should act more like teenagers.


Sincerely,

Douglas Marolla

MVHS – Room 227

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An Example that Something Has Gone Horribly Wrong

James O'Keefe may be the most important journalist of this generation.  I think he is.  He isn't afraid to show that the Epstein affair is deeper, sleazier and more dangerous than before.

O'Keefe isn't afraid to release incredible findings like this one.

A sitting congresswoman retweeted the information that is now out, that Corporate Media crushed the Epstein story.  Powerful people allowed a serial rapist / pedophile loose because..... they wanted it.  Then, incredibly, a sitting congresswoman, AOC, unretweeted the post!

Someone very powerful must not want the information out, or at least for her to retweet it.  I guess all of that 'girl power' and 'hashtag me too' stuff is for the proles.

Someday the archeologists will look back on these days and wonder what the hell was going on.

Newsletter #14 – Do As I Do, Not As I Say

The seniors and I have talked a lot about the ‘next step’. They are anxious about going to college – mainly the huge cost that is associated with it. As usual with young people, the time cost of four years isn’t the problem, it’s the monetary cost.

They feel that they are under immense pressure, and I think they’re right.

A few times a week, they ask me what can they do if they don’t go to college. That’s a difficult question to answer because the people who have managed to do well for themselves without a degree usually get into a niche where no one cares about a university diploma. Many have ported their career / job onto the internet, and done ok.

It’s difficult having this conversation because pressure comes from many directions.

I use my second career teaching online as an example of thinking about options. Coming from the pre-www generation, I have taken what I do and moved it to the Web. My latest $19 SAT Verbal class is here:

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If you think that’s a shameless plug for my class, you’re right.

But the benefit of showing teens that I am trying to make a go of an old profession that is running out of runway, teaching, and putting it somewhere else and going digital, is that they can use their more dynamic imaginations and do the same.

The combination of grant money, internships, online income, and IRL (ask your child) income should at least alleviate the rough financial road ahead. If a high school senior can take pieces of advice from us and carve a manageable life path from it, the gratification of navigating that struggle will be priceless.

I have internship and program advice here – FREE: https://thefreelanceteacher.teachable.com/p/16-ways-to-jumpstart-your-disaffected-phone-addicted-teenager

I don’t envy high school seniors today. I think they have a tougher time of it. We should all try to help using 2019 era suggestions, not 1989 era suggestions.

Sincerely,

Douglas MarollaMVHS – Room227

The High Cost of Political Correctness

ZMAN: "Way back in the before times, when terms like “multiculturalism” had not escaped the academy, it was assumed that science and math were immune from the politicization that was ongoing in fields like history. After all, history is about storytelling, while math is about getting the right answer. Surely the right answer fields would not succumb to the growing lunacy on the Left, with regards to race, sex and ethnicity. Yet, here we are in the current year and the Left has declared a fatwa against math."

This is simply the result of the vapors taking over the barking at the moon fanatics who run our institutions.  The problem with their Radical Egalitarian philosophy is that now Science! and evidence has blown up their worldview, so they must now tear down the world.

It's easy to see how this ends, and who will get hurt the most.