Last night, on his TV show The Factor, Bill O’Reilly introduced his guest, Glenn Beck, as “the always perspicacious Glenn Beck.”
O’Reilly then proceeded to define this highfalutin word for Glenn Beck, who didn’t know what it meant.
Or maybe Beck was just pretending that he didn’t know. Glenn Beck is self educated, and he doesn’t know what everyone in America should know, due to their indoctrination in the American school system.
Beck was a guest on The Factor because he is promoting a new book, which he has just written, on today’s educational standards, which are called Common Core.
Glenn Beck’s complaint, about Common Core standards, is that it is part of America’s “cultural war,” about which Bill O’Reilly has spoken many times on his TV show. Beck thinks that the purpose of the Common Core is to produce “good little workers” for American business firms.
Beck specifically mentioned a speech, given by Bill Gates, one of the founders of Microsoft. Beck said that America is now “adopting a new kind of capitalism, like that in China.” He added that “a truck driver doesn’t need to read Huck Finn. He was making the point that today’s students are taught to be “good little workers.”
Glen cited the Common Core English test, which has sentences to “indoctrinate kids” into progressive thinking.
Way back in the Dark Ages, when I was in “grade school,” English was taught by having students diagram a sentence on a blackboard, a method which is not taught any more. If you know how to diagram a sentence, you will never make the mistake of dangling a participle. Today’s students, who type with their thumbs, on their “mobile device,” don’t know what a participle is and they couldn’t care less about English grammar.
Early on, during Glenn Beck’s former TV show, I deduced that Glenn is not a college graduate. He revealed many times, that he doesn’t know what every college graduate knows. It was very clear to me that Glenn is completely self educated.
Just to make sure, I went to Wikipedia to confirm that Glenn Beck did not graduate from college.
I found this quote on Wikipedia:
In 1996, while working for a New Haven area radio station, Beck took a theology class at Yale University, with a written recommendation from Senator Joe Lieberman, a Yale alumnus who was a fan of Beck’s show at the time.[38] Beck enrolled in an “Early Christology” course, but soon withdrew, marking the extent of his post-secondary education.[36][39]
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As he later recounted in his books and stage performances, Beck’s first attempt at self-education involved six wide-ranging authors, comprising what Beck jokingly calls “the library of a serial killer”: Alan Dershowitz, Pope John Paul II, Adolf Hitler, Billy Graham, Carl Sagan, and Friedrich Nietzsche.[38] During this time, Beck’s Mormon friend and former radio partner Pat Gray argued in favor of the “comprehensive worldview” offered by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, an offer that Beck rejected until a few years later.[36]
I will probably not rush out to buy Glenn Beck’s new book, and I will tell you why: I have now come to the conclusion that Common Core is a good idea for American’s schools. All young people are now learning what they need to know to get along in today’s world. They don’t need to learn the truth; what they need to know is accepted history.
Regarding the recent assignment, given to students in the Rialto Unified School District, to read a revisionist website, and then write a “critical thinking” essay on the Holocaust, I now believe that this was not a good thing. Today’s children need to know the accepted beliefs in America, whether these beliefs are true or not.
If a student wants to get a good job in America, he or she needs a progressive education in a progressive college, and they need to be able to regurgitate all the accepted details of the Holocaust. A young person, who persists in reading Holocaust denial websites, should be advised that they will have to start their own company because they will not get a job in corporate America.
BTW, my father never read Huck Finn. He didn’t have a Common Core education. He never even made it past the 4th grade. So how was he able to get a job in corporate America? He didn’t. In fact, he NEVER had a job; he bought a truck and became a truck driver, working on his own. He eventually founded a multi-million dollar, nation-wide trucking company, which is still in business.
Students who live in the 4 states in America, which do not have the Common Core, can always get a job as a truck driver. Or they can start their own business.
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