Prez of Hillsdale College: "...education destroys generations of people. It's devastating."

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Leaked video emerges of a donor conference with TN Governor Bill Lee and Hillsdale College President Bill Arnn.

In the video, Arnn basically says all teachers are worthless and come from "the worst colleges."

Some choice quotes that Arnn makes to the Governor of Tennessee:

“The teachers are trained in the dumbest parts of the dumbest colleges in the country."

“They are taught that they are going to go and do something to those kids.... Do they ever talk about anything except what they are going to do to these kids?"

"In colleges, what you hire now is administrators…. Now, because they are appointing all these diversity officers, what are their degrees in? Education. It's easy. You don't have to know anything."

“The philosophic understanding at the heart of modern education is enslavement…. They're messing with people's children, and they feel entitled to do anything to them.”

“You will see how education destroys generations of people. It's devastating. It's like the plague.”

“Here's a key thing that we're going to try to do. We are going to try to demonstrate that you don't have to be an expert to educate a child because basically anybody can do it.”

These radical anarchists are coming for your kids' schools next. Hillsdale College will be opening 100 charter schools in TN staffed by....."anybody can do it."



More here: https://www.newschannel5.com/news/newschannel-5-investigates/revealed/revealed-teachers-come-from-dumbest-parts-of-dumbest-colleges-tenn-governors-education-advisor-tells-him

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It gets worse. To present a new civics training program for public K-12 teachers, Florida partnered with Hillsdale College, a private explicitly religious college in Michigan, instead of its own renowned public university system. And here’s what that begat:

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The fascist takeover of this country is depressing af to watch.

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Denying the role of Judeo-Christian religious values in the Enlightenment and the formation of Western Civilization is the same as some redneck from Texas denying evolution or believing the Earth is flat. You need to teach a lot of moral philosophy, reason, and critical thinking if you want to leave religion behind and maintain a functioning society at our scale.
The pendulum swung too far one way and it now it will swing back (rinse and repeat). That's life.

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Anonymous wrote:Denying the role of Judeo-Christian religious values in the Enlightenment and the formation of Western Civilization is the same as some redneck from Texas denying evolution or believing the Earth is flat. You need to teach a lot of moral philosophy, reason, and critical thinking if you want to leave religion behind and maintain a functioning society at our scale.
The pendulum swung too far one way and it now it will swing back (rinse and repeat). That's life.

Those slides are not about the Enlightenment or Western Civilization. Those slides do not acknowledge that the 1st Amendment explicitly bans the establishment of a religion by the federal government and states, nor does it discuss the very real anti-religion sentiment of many of the Founding Fathers.

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Anonymous wrote:Denying the role of Judeo-Christian religious values in the Enlightenment and the formation of Western Civilization is the same as some redneck from Texas denying evolution or believing the Earth is flat. You need to teach a lot of moral philosophy, reason, and critical thinking [strike]if you want to leave religion behind and[/strike] maintain a functioning society at our scale.

Regardless of whether religion is present or not, you need to teach a lot of moral philosophy, reason, and critical thinking if you want a functioning society.

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Unfortunately I sort of agree with this assessment. I remember hanging with some college students studying to be teachers. They definitely gave off dumbest of the low hanging fruit. This impression was only confirmed when my DC was at the elementary school level. Beyond the elementary school level - the improvement was marked.

I'm old enough my schoolteachers were the cream of the crop, as education was one of the few professions available to women. I can clearly see the difference.

Sorry to say it.

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Anonymous wrote:Unfortunately I sort of agree with this assessment. I remember hanging with some college students studying to be teachers. They definitely gave off dumbest of the low hanging fruit. This impression was only confirmed when my DC was at the elementary school level. Beyond the elementary school level - the improvement was marked.

I'm old enough my schoolteachers were the cream of the crop, as education was one of the few professions available to women. I can clearly see the difference.

Sorry to say it.

Pretty sad to see people paint all teachers with such a broad brush. I have multiple friends who went to Ivy League and T20 undergrad who are teachers in public and charter schools. They do amazing work. Our son’s previous baby sitter is an incredible young woman who just became a teacher (she went St Mary’s College MD) and is sooooo good with teaching young kids.

To see this kind of radical ugliness come from America’s elites is profoundly disturbing. “Anyone can do it…” ugh

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Hillsdale is well respected and I think their focus on classical education will benefit a lot of kids.

I don’t get the hate- you don’t have to use these charters if you disagree with the philosophy

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Anonymous wrote:Unfortunately I sort of agree with this assessment. I remember hanging with some college students studying to be teachers. They definitely gave off dumbest of the low hanging fruit. This impression was only confirmed when my DC was at the elementary school level. Beyond the elementary school level - the improvement was marked.

I'm old enough my schoolteachers were the cream of the crop, as education was one of the few professions available to women. I can clearly see the difference.

Sorry to say it.

Gee, it couldn’t have anything to do with people putting down the women who work in early childhood and early education and the way we underpay them, could it? No, no, no says Mrs. “Sorry to say it,” it’s just that all teachers are stupid. I would have loved to go into education but I didn’t want to deal with stuff like “those who can’t do teach” and your sorry attitude.

Work on your internalized misogyny because your insides are ugly.

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Anonymous wrote:Hillsdale is well respected and I think their focus on classical education will benefit a lot of kids.

I don’t get the hate- you don’t have to use these charters if you disagree with the philosophy

Welcome, christofascist. Maybe respond to some of the facts here before another mindless defense of a crap religious institution.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Unfortunately I sort of agree with this assessment. I remember hanging with some college students studying to be teachers. They definitely gave off dumbest of the low hanging fruit. This impression was only confirmed when my DC was at the elementary school level. Beyond the elementary school level - the improvement was marked.

I'm old enough my schoolteachers were the cream of the crop, as education was one of the few professions available to women. I can clearly see the difference.

Sorry to say it.

Gee, it couldn’t have anything to do with people putting down the women who work in early childhood and early education and the way we underpay them, could it? No, no, no says Mrs. “Sorry to say it,” it’s just that all teachers are stupid. I would have loved to go into education but I didn’t want to deal with stuff like “those who can’t do teach” and your sorry attitude.

Work on your internalized misogyny because your insides are ugly.

DP. Gonna have to call you on that one. If you wanted to become a teacher, you would have, and if you didn't, then you didn't. Not because some people have some pithy sayings.

I have a lot of respect for elementary school teachers but we all know that teachers schools don't make good teachers, they already are that way (or they aren't).

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Well TX is becoming the epicenter of dumb (told Appalachia and the South to hold my beer), they’re proposing textbook stop using the term “slavery” and use the “involuntarily moved” instead.

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Anonymous wrote:Well TX is becoming the epicenter of dumb (told Appalachia and the South to hold my beer), they’re proposing textbook stop using the term “slavery” and use the “involuntarily moved” instead.

That sounds like the currently popular person-first language that we are all supposed to be using now...

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hillsdale is well respected and I think their focus on classical education will benefit a lot of kids.

I don’t get the hate- you don’t have to use these charters if you disagree with the philosophy

Welcome, christofascist. Maybe respond to some of the facts here before another mindless defense of a crap religious institution.

I am not sure what even to respond to.

Private schools have long prioritized subject matter expertise, and public schools have biased towards teachers who have studied teaching methods.

There’s been room for both approaches for a long time.

Pick the approach you like.

See how I can respond w/out the name calling, btw? It’s a superpower and you can develop it, too.