About: Sam Blumenfeld
Posts by Sam Blumenfeld
How American Public Education Has Become a Criminal Enterprise
American public schools are daily guilty of deliberately committing the following crimes: child abuse by deliberately impairing a child’s brain through the use of teaching methods designed to produce functional illiteracy; contributing...
Why Ronald Reagan Couldn’t Abolish the Department of Education
When Ronald Reagan became president in 1981, he tried to abolish the Department of Education, which had been established in 1979 by his predecessor, liberal Democrat Jimmy Carter. Walter...
Teaching Homeschoolers to Restore our Republic
What is education all about? In my view, the purpose of education is to pass on to the next generation the knowledge, wisdom, and moral values of the present...
What Kind of Education Do We Need for the 21st Century?
Students should be taught to confront the main problems that plague the country in the 21st-century: historical ignorance, religious ignorance, and a lack of thinking skills. ...
On the Revival of “Classical” Education
One of the educational ideas that has been restored from the remote past, especially among homeschoolers, is that of a classical education. ...
Can Computers Educate?
The question is, should the computer be used to replace the teacher in educating students, or should the student merely learn how to use a computer? Has the computer...
How Should We Teach Our Children to Write? Cursive First, Print Later!
While this writer's reading program, Alpha-Phonics, has been used by thousands of homeschoolers to produce highly literate children, when it comes to writing, I have to explain to a...
Teen Suicide: Is Death Ed a Cause? Part 3
By now we’ve had about 40 years of death education in the public schools, and the subject has metastasized throughout the entire curriculum as the National Education Association has...
Teen Suicide: Is Death Education a Cause? Part 2
Death educators are quite aware that they are dealing with a highly charged, taboo subject that many students can’t handle. But they are more concerned with making death education...
Teen Suicide: Is Death Ed a Cause?
The CDC (Centers for Disease Control) reports that 60 percent of high school students claim that they have thought about committing suicide, and around nine percent of them say...
Secular Humanism: America’s Establishment of Religion Part 2
The Secular Humanists are committed to world government, which means ending the United States as a free and sovereign nation. To my mind that is an act of treason....
Secular Humanism: America’s Establishment of Religion
Although the U.S. Constitution forbids the creation of a national establishment of religion, the closest we have come to the creation of such an establishment is that of secular...
Why Should Atheists Have a Monopoly on Tax-Funded Schools? Part 2
With the publication in 2007 of Antony Flew’s momentous book,There is a God: How the World’s Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind, the debate among scientists on the issue of the...
Why Should Atheists Have a Monopoly on Tax-Funded Schools?
Why is atheism the privileged philosophy worthy of taxpayer support in America's schools? Why must Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish schools pay their own way, but atheist public schools are...
Scientific Racism and Progressive Education
One of the skeletons in the Progressive Education closet is Scientific Racism, otherwise known as Eugenics, which the leaders of the Progressive movement enthusiastically espoused until the Nazis in...