Crimes of the Educators

How Utopians Are Using Government Schools to Destroy America's Children

By: Samuel Blumenfeld, Alex Newman

Narrated by: Daniel Natal

Utopian dictators like Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, and Mao are criminals – genocidal psychopaths who have killed more human beings in the last hundred years than any other ideologues in history. They don't limit their murder to individuals, but to entire nations.

In the United States another form of utopians, the "progressives," have tried to destroy traditional America by strategically dumbing down her people. America's future is being crippled on purpose in order to fundamentally transform the nation, its values, and its system of government. Laid out a century ago by progressive luminary John Dewey, the fruits of his schemes are plain to see today. Dewey got rid of the traditional intensive phonics method of instruction and imposed a "look-say," "sight," or "whole-word" method that forces children to read English as if it were Chinese. The method is widely used in today's public schools, which is a major reason there are so many failing public schools that cannot teach children the basics. This can only be considered a blatant form of child abuse.

American author and veteran educator Samuel Blumenfeld and journalist Alex Newman have taken on the public education establishment as never before and exposed it for the de facto criminal enterprise it is.

Crimes of the Educators reveals how the architects of America's public school disaster implemented a plan to socialize the United States by knowingly and willingly dumbing down the population, a mission closer to success than ever as the Obama administration works relentlessly to nationalize K-12 schooling with Common Core.

The whole-word method of teaching children to read – introduced by John Dewey and colleagues in the early twentieth century and which permeates Common Core – is a significant cause of dyslexia among students. Public education's war on religion, promotion of death education, and the plan to lower standards for all so "no one is left behind" are destroying everything.

©2014 PostHill (P)2020 Alex Newman

Good points but heavily skewed presentation

To begin with, I should point out that I agree with most of the explicit points in the book. However, this book is one of the least nuanced books I've ever read. The beginning of the book does a fairly good job mapping out the origins of the problem, who is responsible, and how this got transmitted. But, by the end, literally any mention of having a plan in a speech apparently implicates a person into a vast worldwide conspiracy to make everyone dumb and communist. I'm not a fan of the UN, but it is actually reasonable for people from different countries to come together and figure out how to structure society for the future. The very fact that people are thinking, planning, and acting does not auto-implicate them in a nefarious plot. If only conservatives could think, plan, and act, too! Oh wait, we can!

In any case, if you want a lot of bullet points for the anti-public-school crowd, this has that. But with the amount of looseness with which the authors inferred cause and effect, I would double-check any claim fairly thoroughly before repeating it. If you are looking for an objective look at what is happening in the schools, this is not that. While I think this book has a good background going further back on where this ideology originally came from, I think the audio series "Sold a Story" is a better objective description of the mechanics of how this sort of terrible educational practice became widespread.

There is also a similar, growing trend with math facts, but, unfortunately, we haven't yet objectively measured the impact enough to fully reckon with it yet.

12 years of education explained

The crimes of the educators book hits the nail on the head of American education

A very comprehensive look at public education.

Author’s perspective as a long time educator provides valuable insight. We needs to get this into the hands of parents.