Open Source Education

September 25, 2013

By Catherine Austin Fitts

Pay attention to the explosion of on-line education. There is a lot of excellent curriculum and teaching that is becoming available – much of it designed to support the explosion underway in entrepreneurship and a shift away from debt to equity investment.

Here are a few links to peruse. Send in your favorites and we will take a look and post more!

One Comment

Lori Itano says:

September 27, 2013 at 12:56 pm

As a homeschooling parent, I have watched the online educational opportunities explode in the past 10 years. However, the same questions always have to be asked: Who funds the school? What is the agenda? Sometimes that information is easy to obtain, sometimes not. Just as Common Core has the goal of being able to not only collect all kinds of information of every sort on every child (to be saved forever, apparently, with no guarantee of privacy), but brainwashing straight from Washington, D.C. that can be changed with the click of a mouse — many from Communist countries have commented on the incredible similarities between their Communist education and the Common Core. Khan Academy, for example, was bought a few years ago by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. It is a wonderful educational site, but it is important to know the politics of the Gates Foundation and how that may (now and in the future) impact the education received there.
It involves very deep thinking and a lot of homework to figure out what education really is, and what it should be (not that everyone will agree, of course!), but it is never a waste of your time to do that homework. As a teaser… Find out why, prior to the advent of the public school system, at the time of the Revolutionary War, Massachusetts had a 97% literacy rate (far higher than today), and the bestselling “dime novel” of the day was The Deerslayer by James Fenimore Cooper. Try to read/listen to it. Then read/listen to a bestseller today. Find out how many books had to be sold to be constituted a “bestseller” back then (compared to the population), and how many today (compared to the population).
I bet you’ll be quite surprised — as I was — to find the massive deficits in your own education, in which we were all taught that right now we are living at the pinnacle of achievement of all societies, of all times. Lori

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As a homeschooling parent, I have watched the online educational opportunities explode in the past 10 years. However, the same questions always have to be asked: Who funds the school? What is the agenda? Sometimes that information is easy to obtain, sometimes not. Just as Common Core has the goal of being able to not only collect all kinds of information of every sort on every child (to be saved forever, apparently, with no guarantee of privacy), but brainwashing straight from Washington, D.C. that can be changed with the click of a mouse — many from Communist countries have commented on the incredible similarities between their Communist education and the Common Core. Khan Academy, for example, was bought a few years ago by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. It is a wonderful educational site, but it is important to know the politics of the Gates Foundation and how that may (now and in the future) impact the education received there.
It involves very deep thinking and a lot of homework to figure out what education really is, and what it should be (not that everyone will agree, of course!), but it is never a waste of your time to do that homework. As a teaser… Find out why, prior to the advent of the public school system, at the time of the Revolutionary War, Massachusetts had a 97% literacy rate (far higher than today), and the bestselling “dime novel” of the day was The Deerslayer by James Fenimore Cooper. Try to read/listen to it. Then read/listen to a bestseller today. Find out how many books had to be sold to be constituted a “bestseller” back then (compared to the population), and how many today (compared to the population).
I bet you’ll be quite surprised — as I was — to find the massive deficits in your own education, in which we were all taught that right now we are living at the pinnacle of achievement of all societies, of all times. Lori

Comments are closed.