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The 14 Lessons Elite Private Schools Teach that Public School Students are Denied
It wasnât long after I completed my masters degree that I realized just how useless my overpriced education truly was. Donât get me wrong, the Queens College Birth-2 Special Education program is as good as they come. The teachers are hands on and give the effort that every student deserves from a teacher. My education was useless in how little it provided in terms of real world practical skills Think of your own experience  When you graduated college did you have unique value that could be provided to employers. Did you know the first thing about business? What about after you graduated college? What about after you graduated a masters program? Donât worry if you havenât done the latter. The point is that my set of skills did not match the $100,000+ dollars in loans taken out for college. The one thing my degrees did provide was a piece of paper that widened my legal employment options. How is it that my education provided so little in terms of real world skills and experience? What did my education lack that other peopleâs educations must have provided?
John Taylor Gatto, who won the New York City Teacher of the Year Award in 1989, 1990, and 1991, as well as the New York State Teacher of the Year in 1991, set out to investigate the above questions. Gatto studied the curriculums of the most prestigious private schools in America. He found 14 lessons taught at these elite institutions that are not taught to the general public.
Students form a unique theory on human nature. What makes people tick. The theory is derived from history, philosophy, theology, literature, and law.
Strong experience with active literacies: Reading, writing, and public speaking.
Insight into major institutional forms: courts, corporations, military, and education.Â
Repeated exercises in good manors and politeness.
Independent work â students drive 80% of workload.
Physical sports are a necessity.
Students form a âtheory of accessâ on how to get access to any person or institution.
Responsibility is an essential part of the curriculum. Always take responsibility whenÂ
Click here to continue reading: classicallearner.com/the-14-lessons-elite-private-âŚ
See you soon.
-Brett
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Dear FFRnews Community,
Over the last few months I have worked quietly behind the scenes on the building of an alternative education platform. This week I launched www.ClassicalLearner.com. The platform is designed to assist parents in better educating children to grow into strong and independent free thinkers. Check out my first post below:
How a Masters Degree in Education, my Life Journey, and a Passion for History Revealed the Fatal Flaws in the American Education System that All Parents Should Know
Growing up I hated school. I think school might have hated me as well. Iâll never forget my motherâs reaction to the school psychologist suggesting I be put on pills in elementary school. âHow about I shove those pills up your a$$â. Thanks mom, I love you.
Elementary school, can you believe that. The school system had already decided there was something wrong about me. I didnât fit in. I was a square peg that had to be shoved into a round hole. How many other children have been put on pills for having âADHDâ? How many children have had what makes them, them, taken away. When my father grew up a hyper third grader was called what he really is, a normal boy.
My school grades were average. Mostly âBâ, some âAâ and some âCâ marks. My âAâ marks mostly came in history class. From elementary school through eighth grade I was forced to go to resource room. I say forced because it was against my will. I was embarrassed that I had to leave the classroom to receive extra help that the other children did not have to receive. I was just as smart as the other children. The school mandated I have extra time on tests. I had difficulty with visual tracking and had difficulty scanning from the end of one line to the beginning of the next line below it when reading. My parents were frustrated when they found out that I never used my extra time. From elementary school I pushed back against the machine. I told the school I didnât want the time and I wasnât going to use it. In ninth grade a child is permitted by law to attend IEP meetings (these are the meetings where it is determined if a child is resource room material). Always a rebel against the machine, I exercised my will. At the conclusion of the meeting I no longer had resource room on my schedule. I reserved the right to take extra time on tests, but now where I took tests, and the extra time used was completely of my discretion.
My wife finds it hard to believe, but when I was a child I got in a lot of fights. She finds it hard to believe because I am so against violence as an adult. Teachers thought I was bad. The truth is the opposite; I was honest. My father volunteered to join the Marines and go to Vietnam when he was 18 years old. Never ask him if he was a Marine, because his answer will be once you are a Marine, you are always a Marine. He raised me that way. Never back down. The teachers didnât realize that I never started a fight. Never. I just finished them. The school system creates victim mentality in children by incentivizing going to adults rather than teaching children to stand up against bullies. Teaching victim mentality in children is one of the worst things School does. Ironically, the schools policy on bullying creates a perfect environment for bullies. If you want to stop a bully, hit him in the mouth. Anyway, thatâs a talk for another day.Â
At 18 years old I did what the school system and society had groomed me to do my entire life. I took out huge amounts of debt and went off to college. âMajor in what you love they saidâ. Take out $150,000 in debt to get a job that starts at $40,000 a year they said. What did I know? Apparently my only other option was to ask âdo you want fries with thatâ. A generation of parents has failed their children by not properly educating them on the relationship between college debt, salary, and quality-of-life. That is also a talk for another day.
It wasnât until my junior year of college I decided to take school seriously. I remember thinking, âoh crap, I am going to be a history teacher soon, I better learn historyâ. From that point forward I did very well in school. I graduated from Cortland University with a bachelors degree in history education in 2011. I got a job working in the New York State Early Intervention program right after graduation. All of that time studying history and I ended up working with families who have children three years old and younger. I actually enjoyed the work, so I applied to Queens College to get a masters degree in birth to second grade special education. Three years later I graduated my masters program with a 4.0 GPA and was awarded the honor given to the top student in the program. Not bad for that elementary school student who the teachers thought was nothing and the school psychologist wanted to drug. Thanks mom, I love you.
Working in the Early Intervention program gave me years of experience working one on one with mothers and fathers. I have assisted thousands of families with generating customized individual family service plans that include speech therapy, physical therapy, occupational therapy, teachers, and I wide range of other services. I created the goals and objectives for each child in the program.Â
All the while my love for history strengthened. Itâs ironic that I became obsessive over history only after I had left school. My studies led me to truth I never expected and allowed me to interact with some of the greatest minds in human history. Human culture summed up in a five page allegory in Platoâs Republic. Systems of morality developed by Aristotle, George Washington, and a 13-year-old Ben Franklin. Political theory developed by Niccolo Machiavelli. War explained by Smedley Butler. Educational theory and history by John Taylor Gatto and Dorothy Sayers. It wasnât until I finished school that I discovered true education is the self driven pursuit of knowledge. True education is something the school system cannot replicate.
Instead the school system teaches children.....
The rest of the article can be read at classicallearner.com/hello-world/
The article includes access to a free copy of The Parent Guide Cheat Sheet and the option of signing up for a free family assessment in which I personally meet with you via digital phone conference.Â
Thank you for joining me on my life journey. Â God bless you and your family. Â
-Brett Pike
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