vote for Obama, he's going to CHANGE this kind of thing, no really.

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Confusing, actually, children learning empathy for the poor is sanctioned brainwashing? Individuality is bad? I'm not sure where she is coming from, but I definitely don't feel like we are educated to think for ourselves in public school.

This sounds like Ayn Rand objectivist complaining. I didn't hear a single thing about "dumbing down." The media does a much better job of that anyway, and probably have more influence than schools

I believe what she is talking about is "Krathwohl's Taxonomy of Affective Domain." It concerns how a person values what is taught.

There are three taxonomy charts on this page: Cognitive, Affective and Psychomotor. Each one is depicted in a pyramid. Reaching the highest point of each pyramid is the goal.

http://www.acu.edu/academics/adamscenter/resources/coursedev/taxonomies.html#affective


I have to wonder about the constant stopping and starting of the tape in this interview.

She really comes of as quite a bigot!
Schools challenging the beliefs of you parents and pastor, ohh boy, we can't have that now can we, someone might actualy grow up to think for themselves and turn into a commy...

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I'm also confused. What does she mean by "normal looking Americans"? Honestly, I'm glad that I was educated about what drugs can mess you up and what kind of diseases you can get having sex indiscriminately. What on earth is wrong with that? Also, as a teacher I'm appalled that she thinks education ends at the transmission of facts and figures. Teachers are supposed to help the child grow from self-centered youth to adults who can think about others, as well. She seems like a perfect Reagan appointee, totally confounded that America was changing, and pretending back then to be "politically correct" but not understanding a thing. She dumb.

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damn.

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I got a bad feeling about this woman in the first few minutes. Only got worse the more I listened. Dang. Yep. "Normal looking Americans"? Dang.

This is bull. I was expecting horns to starting poking out of her skull. To a larger point it is scary to think that people like this exist, not only exist, but have power to influence education standards .

How's Obama been treating you Mink? Has the sinking realization that our whole political system in a sham, that it cannot be saved by any one person finally embedded itself into your hero-worshiping brain?

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I'm sure there are some dumbing down going on, see the related video in the comment above, but what this woman is talking about/objecting to is insane.

"He said education was about challenging and changing students mind.."

YES IT IS!. Thats excactly the point of education: LEARNING something that gives you something to think about, she says it like its a bad thing!, its a good thing, having your views challenged. And then she continues: "I thought education was about reading, writing and arithmetic" Well, you need those things, but sureley, if anything is dumbing down, it would be to create mindless reading math robots with no understanding of the context and purpose of learning stuff.

"He could turn a god-fearing patriot into an atheist in an hour" Well duh, thats because religion and nationalism doesnt make any sense, of course kids with actual open minds would realise the truth very quickly.