What a fine report. Your niece sounds enchanting, and it is wonderful to be blessed with those as she having the capacity and desire to learn. How refreshing it is to connect with a child open and informed...Who no doubt loves to pass the time with her worldly Uncle who no doubt adores her.
Never heard of the Doris Todd Christian Academy and it sounds truly focused upon providing the rare 'Classical Education' once so common a century ago. This is what we've sought to begin here in the recent five years in a very small way. It's disarming to know these kinds of schools do exist since that indicates it to be possible for schools everywhere to return to a proven excellent program but refuse to return to such an advantageous method for schooling children. Your niece will benefit for the rest of her life in acquiring her courageous habit of growth in seeking truth and knowledge.
She will contribute much with her almost unheard-of potential of a whole human being in this time. A very joyful and fulfilling piece today. Thank-you.
As a teacher- I see young teachers unprepared for the job in many ways. One would expect classroom management to be tough for the first couple of years- but the subject matter should have deep understanding- just not the case. Work ethic is usually not there either. The schools want teachers to teach social emotional learning-that should just come with life experience and family life- takes away from math, English, science etc
Sounds like a great school - thanks for the heads up. We regret that we were sadly unable to instill a love of reading in our children, despite trying. We faced the twin challenges of the "smart phone" and a so called education system based on "memorize, guess, forget". Our children were turned off reading forever being made to read postgraduate level paragraphs, completely out of context, and then forced to guess the "right" answer to pointless trick double negative questions about the nuances of meaning of some word or other. This was an English ''test". We tried to teach this nonsense for a while but gave up in disgust. In the 70s and 80s we read Austen round the class, from cover to cover, and discussed what the book was about, then wrote a five page essays in 45 minutes. We loved the reading, discussing and writing and it set us up for university and life beyond. We thank our teachers. Sad to say, our children really cannot write nor express ideas clearly. They do not love literature or reading. Judging by much of what we read on line this is not a rare "educational outcome".
Schools patterned after the Rudolf Steiner curriculum are similar to the one where your niece was sent. Steiner who lived about one hundred years ago, developed a system of schooling based on his belief that humanity would face grave challenges that threaten our autonomy and freedom. I sent my three children to Steiner schools and despite the fact that reading and basic arithmetic is delayed until the third or fourth grade.... they now have advanced degrees...an MD, a lawyer and a scientist. Steiner was very prescient in that he believed that a "vaccine" would be developed in the future...this was a hundred years ago that he wrote about this--that would basically stunt humanity and weaken our connections with the spiritual world. It seems that this has happened and that demons rule our world. I am sad to say that two of my daughters were coerced into getting these injections. TWC gives me hope that they can recover from the "vaccines".....if I can convince them to use their products. I have also heard hopeful things about EDTA and also using individual herbal supplements....
Mircea-Constantin Serban. 2020, Rudolf Steiner about vaccines. "I have told you that the spirits of darkness are going to inspire their human hosts, in whom they will be dwelling, to find a vaccine that will drive all inclination towards spirituality out of people's souls when they are still very young,
The way Waldorf (Steiner-inspired) schools teach reading is abominable...so confusing to the children that (in my experience) about 40% of the kids end up having serious difficulty learning to read. Meanwhile, most five-year-olds can learn to read easily and quickly using a well-designed curriculum. For parents who want a Waldorf education for their kids, I recommend using Siegfried Engelmann's book "Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons" to teach your child at home at age 5, and then doing "shared reading" (parent and child take turns reading paragraphs or pages aloud) for at least half an hour per day through age 10.
"When I answered "Brazil,” she laughed and said, “NO! The macadamia comes from Australia!”
A follow on Australian story. During an argument about the indigenous of Australia old mate Andrew said, "Look the aborigines didn't develop a thing."
Bob replied, "Really, what have we developed?"
"Why look at our farming, Cattle, cropping etc etc." Andrew replied.
"Didn't all those develop from things that came across the seas?" Bob countered.
Bob continues, "Surely the question is what crops have we have developed from the natural species of Australia?" After much discussion and curiosity Bob and Andrew were at a loss.
Old chap sitting nearby piped up, " There is one, the macadamia. But, that was developed by Americans on Hawaii!"
John ,with all due respect, Abe Linclon did not have an all purpose gym, etc. My sense is school emphasis on athetics is a negative, and diminishes community action. let the community provide sports, etc. Let the school be a school. let them go out and climb a tree, splach in the rain. period.
If they raise money, do so to build ANOTHER School, in another location in order to expand the true goodness that the focus on literacy has accomplished. Do not dilute what has been accomplshed
Greetings Peter, I understand your sentiment, but it's important to remember that kids in the early 19th century spent most of their lives outdoors, and most boys did agricultural labor. I think it's important for kids to break for physical activity and sports, and it rains a great deal on Maui's north shore for much of the school year. Regards. John Leake
Most of the boys? Most of the girls did too — gathering eggs, feeding fowl, milking cows, herding sheep, etc. I was brought up that way in the 1960s in the Midwest — oh sure, I was starting, driving, and fixing a tractor instead of hitching and driving a mule. I made a donation — they are doing God’s work in paradise.
Every culture and every religious context for its existence and self-referentiality tends to be limited and tends not to absorb too much from other religious or atheist contexts, while making people believe that God is with us and for His infinite goodness allows the existence (the error) of other religions, which in the end are just a little off target.
In every culture and in every religious context there can be teachings that are quite open that in a young mind can stimulate even greater openness.
I believe that instead there are not enough criticisms of the limits of human development within religious contexts that have not been stigmatized sooner or later by members of the various religions.
Perhaps it should be said that apparently without limits no teaching can develop, and perhaps a teaching as such is in fact a manifestation of limits and also an exercise in being limited in order to stay within a discipline and learn to count on our limited strengths (despite studying the works of others, with enormous risks of identification or rejection a priori).
Returning to the Bible, what more negative example can there be of the validity of a religious text like this, if the people most closely linked to the existence of this book are capable of becoming worse than their persecutors?
I know very well that it seems that humanity has always developed (and regressed) within, or around, some religious context, but perhaps the true religious context that allows development is precisely the most open one, that is, where religious contexts are not created.
in every culture and in every religious context that tends to be limited by its existence, there can be teachings that are open enough that in a young mind they can stimulate even greater openness.
unfortunately, however, there are no criticisms of the limits of human development within religious contexts that have not been stigmatized by members of various religions.
Perhaps it should be said that without limits no teaching can develop, and perhaps a teaching is in fact an exercise in being limited to staying within a discipline and learning to count on our own strengths despite studying the works of others, with enormous risks of identification or a priori rejection.
returning to the Bible, what more negative example can there be of the validity of a religious text like this, if the people most closely linked to the existence of this book are capable of becoming worse than their persecutors?
I know very well that it seems that humanity has always developed (and regressed) within, or around, some religious context, but perhaps the true religious context that allows development is precisely the most open one, that is, where religious contexts are not created.
Thank you for this. I went to a small neighborhood Catholic school. I just spoke with the nephew of my favorite English teacher and what a great impression she made on me. My love of reading, learning and my ability to think freely can be attributed to her devotion to our class. Thank you. I will make a donation. I enjoy your writings.
Instead of exploring the queering of identity and sexuality, teaching kids the three Rs of “reading, ‘riting, and ‘rithmatic” - these Christian fascists must be stopped!!!
Chromebooks are the eighth generation of what was a four decade old hands on physically elementary tech spyware that began in the early 1980’s when the forms of the S.T.E.M.’s where reshuffled, simple math for instance was regurgitated by public edu administrators as a weird drawn out unremarkable method of nonsense as teachers became complicit or left and schools and superintendents with modestly educated DEI pic’s with Masters degrees began outnumbering teachers. Government grifters that advanced the idea of advanced classes which quickly isolated the quickest and brightest without teaching them much of anything, thus their ability were wasted as they were being indoctrinated as far back as the early 1990’s, and of course they were not necessarily the smartest as we all know, but were lead to believe so. As bad as this scenario was for the brightest, it was just as bad for the slower students, most of whom were expected to hold low level office jobs in small business. The skilled trade jobs were already dying, not because of what was media inferred was a “rust belt”, implying they were a thing of the past, but because it was intentionally meant to demoralize the middle class and promulgate people they knew would be complicit in a government job, doing as told like covert comrades, all the while the uniparty in mid 1990’s made China and Vietnam favored countries, simultaneously gutting middle American skilled labor, sending it abroad to slave regimes.
Many of these good bright kids ended up at places like Google that were like petulant play/work/play thought combines of “free ideas”, young adult kindergarten with all the goodies a child adolescent could enjoy. Ultimately these young intelligent adults were confined to these wasteful jobs by high pay and comradeship for those who caught on to “just do as you are told and play along”, as they began to understand that their degrees were all that was necessary, not necessarily their ideas that had already been trafficked. The new tech market uniformly locked out conventional jobs for college grads and those leaving Ivy League schools without jobs or opportunities to teach as associate professors because university administrators were believing they did not need professors when there were new opportunities for universities to build endowments without spending on education per sa because AI was coming so they gave degrees away under the auspices of DEI for complying with government collusion, then right into bureaucracy. The brightest seeking scientists were forced into believing combine protocols were necessary, paying out of pocket to simply be a part of something they believed valued their ideas and would reciprocate but again were left with no job after having their brains basically sucked out and shrunken.
The purpose and structure of merit based education was being disappeared since the 1980’s. Going forward we would all “learn” the collective narrative of AI, without human conscience but with Samaritan appeal.
This is why the globalists (WEF ilk) have said there will be no need for elected officials going forward because AI gets the privilege to pick our leaders by whomever will collectively program AI sources.
Bizarre does not begin to explain the model. Say good by America and its Constitution and say hello to totalitarianism. The beatings will end when morale improves.
Humans are willing to take risks for their freedom and independence, they do not want their lives programmed in a combine that redirect their lives at will. Every time you step out of you house there is a risk, driving a car, going fishing for food, using one’s time to ponder the arts. If what they were working on is not Communism, it’s a close second or worse.
To all the never Trumpers out there who still do not understand TDS means denial that you have been professionally propagandized by America’s captured media 24/7 for nine years because he became the main man center stage with the guts (bravery) and ability to push back on the above because he loves and appreciates his life, family, and country. The “Left” freedom haters hate him for that and painted him as such, and yes, he used the free exposure to allow them to expose themselves.
Like Dr McCullough, John Leake, and the millions more from everywhere with the courage to demand peace and prosperity be inalienable, it’s time to realize it’s not about villains and vigilantes, but exemplifying responsibility.
What a fine report. Your niece sounds enchanting, and it is wonderful to be blessed with those as she having the capacity and desire to learn. How refreshing it is to connect with a child open and informed...Who no doubt loves to pass the time with her worldly Uncle who no doubt adores her.
Never heard of the Doris Todd Christian Academy and it sounds truly focused upon providing the rare 'Classical Education' once so common a century ago. This is what we've sought to begin here in the recent five years in a very small way. It's disarming to know these kinds of schools do exist since that indicates it to be possible for schools everywhere to return to a proven excellent program but refuse to return to such an advantageous method for schooling children. Your niece will benefit for the rest of her life in acquiring her courageous habit of growth in seeking truth and knowledge.
She will contribute much with her almost unheard-of potential of a whole human being in this time. A very joyful and fulfilling piece today. Thank-you.
Hurray for them realizing Covid was not to be feared
As a teacher- I see young teachers unprepared for the job in many ways. One would expect classroom management to be tough for the first couple of years- but the subject matter should have deep understanding- just not the case. Work ethic is usually not there either. The schools want teachers to teach social emotional learning-that should just come with life experience and family life- takes away from math, English, science etc
Another similar classical Christian school is Immanuel Lutheran, in Alexandria, VA.
Wow! I love the sound of this school.
Sounds like a great school - thanks for the heads up. We regret that we were sadly unable to instill a love of reading in our children, despite trying. We faced the twin challenges of the "smart phone" and a so called education system based on "memorize, guess, forget". Our children were turned off reading forever being made to read postgraduate level paragraphs, completely out of context, and then forced to guess the "right" answer to pointless trick double negative questions about the nuances of meaning of some word or other. This was an English ''test". We tried to teach this nonsense for a while but gave up in disgust. In the 70s and 80s we read Austen round the class, from cover to cover, and discussed what the book was about, then wrote a five page essays in 45 minutes. We loved the reading, discussing and writing and it set us up for university and life beyond. We thank our teachers. Sad to say, our children really cannot write nor express ideas clearly. They do not love literature or reading. Judging by much of what we read on line this is not a rare "educational outcome".
Schools patterned after the Rudolf Steiner curriculum are similar to the one where your niece was sent. Steiner who lived about one hundred years ago, developed a system of schooling based on his belief that humanity would face grave challenges that threaten our autonomy and freedom. I sent my three children to Steiner schools and despite the fact that reading and basic arithmetic is delayed until the third or fourth grade.... they now have advanced degrees...an MD, a lawyer and a scientist. Steiner was very prescient in that he believed that a "vaccine" would be developed in the future...this was a hundred years ago that he wrote about this--that would basically stunt humanity and weaken our connections with the spiritual world. It seems that this has happened and that demons rule our world. I am sad to say that two of my daughters were coerced into getting these injections. TWC gives me hope that they can recover from the "vaccines".....if I can convince them to use their products. I have also heard hopeful things about EDTA and also using individual herbal supplements....
Glad to see your nieces are flourishing and well!
Here is something I pulled up about Steiner's thoughts on "vaccination"
Rudolf Steiner about vaccines - Academia.edu
Mircea-Constantin Serban. 2020, Rudolf Steiner about vaccines. "I have told you that the spirits of darkness are going to inspire their human hosts, in whom they will be dwelling, to find a vaccine that will drive all inclination towards spirituality out of people's souls when they are still very young,
The way Waldorf (Steiner-inspired) schools teach reading is abominable...so confusing to the children that (in my experience) about 40% of the kids end up having serious difficulty learning to read. Meanwhile, most five-year-olds can learn to read easily and quickly using a well-designed curriculum. For parents who want a Waldorf education for their kids, I recommend using Siegfried Engelmann's book "Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons" to teach your child at home at age 5, and then doing "shared reading" (parent and child take turns reading paragraphs or pages aloud) for at least half an hour per day through age 10.
In our small country town 2 Christian schools have been born. Even the rural public schools are iffy on academics. Glad to hear Maui is on track.
"When I answered "Brazil,” she laughed and said, “NO! The macadamia comes from Australia!”
A follow on Australian story. During an argument about the indigenous of Australia old mate Andrew said, "Look the aborigines didn't develop a thing."
Bob replied, "Really, what have we developed?"
"Why look at our farming, Cattle, cropping etc etc." Andrew replied.
"Didn't all those develop from things that came across the seas?" Bob countered.
Bob continues, "Surely the question is what crops have we have developed from the natural species of Australia?" After much discussion and curiosity Bob and Andrew were at a loss.
Old chap sitting nearby piped up, " There is one, the macadamia. But, that was developed by Americans on Hawaii!"
John ,with all due respect, Abe Linclon did not have an all purpose gym, etc. My sense is school emphasis on athetics is a negative, and diminishes community action. let the community provide sports, etc. Let the school be a school. let them go out and climb a tree, splach in the rain. period.
If they raise money, do so to build ANOTHER School, in another location in order to expand the true goodness that the focus on literacy has accomplished. Do not dilute what has been accomplshed
Greetings Peter, I understand your sentiment, but it's important to remember that kids in the early 19th century spent most of their lives outdoors, and most boys did agricultural labor. I think it's important for kids to break for physical activity and sports, and it rains a great deal on Maui's north shore for much of the school year. Regards. John Leake
Most of the boys? Most of the girls did too — gathering eggs, feeding fowl, milking cows, herding sheep, etc. I was brought up that way in the 1960s in the Midwest — oh sure, I was starting, driving, and fixing a tractor instead of hitching and driving a mule. I made a donation — they are doing God’s work in paradise.
I actually agree with John! If only I had engaged in sports, or even P.E., I would have healthier habits.
Every culture and every religious context for its existence and self-referentiality tends to be limited and tends not to absorb too much from other religious or atheist contexts, while making people believe that God is with us and for His infinite goodness allows the existence (the error) of other religions, which in the end are just a little off target.
In every culture and in every religious context there can be teachings that are quite open that in a young mind can stimulate even greater openness.
I believe that instead there are not enough criticisms of the limits of human development within religious contexts that have not been stigmatized sooner or later by members of the various religions.
Perhaps it should be said that apparently without limits no teaching can develop, and perhaps a teaching as such is in fact a manifestation of limits and also an exercise in being limited in order to stay within a discipline and learn to count on our limited strengths (despite studying the works of others, with enormous risks of identification or rejection a priori).
Returning to the Bible, what more negative example can there be of the validity of a religious text like this, if the people most closely linked to the existence of this book are capable of becoming worse than their persecutors?
I know very well that it seems that humanity has always developed (and regressed) within, or around, some religious context, but perhaps the true religious context that allows development is precisely the most open one, that is, where religious contexts are not created.
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in every culture and in every religious context that tends to be limited by its existence, there can be teachings that are open enough that in a young mind they can stimulate even greater openness.
unfortunately, however, there are no criticisms of the limits of human development within religious contexts that have not been stigmatized by members of various religions.
Perhaps it should be said that without limits no teaching can develop, and perhaps a teaching is in fact an exercise in being limited to staying within a discipline and learning to count on our own strengths despite studying the works of others, with enormous risks of identification or a priori rejection.
returning to the Bible, what more negative example can there be of the validity of a religious text like this, if the people most closely linked to the existence of this book are capable of becoming worse than their persecutors?
I know very well that it seems that humanity has always developed (and regressed) within, or around, some religious context, but perhaps the true religious context that allows development is precisely the most open one, that is, where religious contexts are not created.
Thank you for this. I went to a small neighborhood Catholic school. I just spoke with the nephew of my favorite English teacher and what a great impression she made on me. My love of reading, learning and my ability to think freely can be attributed to her devotion to our class. Thank you. I will make a donation. I enjoy your writings.
Instead of exploring the queering of identity and sexuality, teaching kids the three Rs of “reading, ‘riting, and ‘rithmatic” - these Christian fascists must be stopped!!!
Well done DTCA!
Chromebooks are the eighth generation of what was a four decade old hands on physically elementary tech spyware that began in the early 1980’s when the forms of the S.T.E.M.’s where reshuffled, simple math for instance was regurgitated by public edu administrators as a weird drawn out unremarkable method of nonsense as teachers became complicit or left and schools and superintendents with modestly educated DEI pic’s with Masters degrees began outnumbering teachers. Government grifters that advanced the idea of advanced classes which quickly isolated the quickest and brightest without teaching them much of anything, thus their ability were wasted as they were being indoctrinated as far back as the early 1990’s, and of course they were not necessarily the smartest as we all know, but were lead to believe so. As bad as this scenario was for the brightest, it was just as bad for the slower students, most of whom were expected to hold low level office jobs in small business. The skilled trade jobs were already dying, not because of what was media inferred was a “rust belt”, implying they were a thing of the past, but because it was intentionally meant to demoralize the middle class and promulgate people they knew would be complicit in a government job, doing as told like covert comrades, all the while the uniparty in mid 1990’s made China and Vietnam favored countries, simultaneously gutting middle American skilled labor, sending it abroad to slave regimes.
Many of these good bright kids ended up at places like Google that were like petulant play/work/play thought combines of “free ideas”, young adult kindergarten with all the goodies a child adolescent could enjoy. Ultimately these young intelligent adults were confined to these wasteful jobs by high pay and comradeship for those who caught on to “just do as you are told and play along”, as they began to understand that their degrees were all that was necessary, not necessarily their ideas that had already been trafficked. The new tech market uniformly locked out conventional jobs for college grads and those leaving Ivy League schools without jobs or opportunities to teach as associate professors because university administrators were believing they did not need professors when there were new opportunities for universities to build endowments without spending on education per sa because AI was coming so they gave degrees away under the auspices of DEI for complying with government collusion, then right into bureaucracy. The brightest seeking scientists were forced into believing combine protocols were necessary, paying out of pocket to simply be a part of something they believed valued their ideas and would reciprocate but again were left with no job after having their brains basically sucked out and shrunken.
The purpose and structure of merit based education was being disappeared since the 1980’s. Going forward we would all “learn” the collective narrative of AI, without human conscience but with Samaritan appeal.
This is why the globalists (WEF ilk) have said there will be no need for elected officials going forward because AI gets the privilege to pick our leaders by whomever will collectively program AI sources.
Bizarre does not begin to explain the model. Say good by America and its Constitution and say hello to totalitarianism. The beatings will end when morale improves.
Humans are willing to take risks for their freedom and independence, they do not want their lives programmed in a combine that redirect their lives at will. Every time you step out of you house there is a risk, driving a car, going fishing for food, using one’s time to ponder the arts. If what they were working on is not Communism, it’s a close second or worse.
To all the never Trumpers out there who still do not understand TDS means denial that you have been professionally propagandized by America’s captured media 24/7 for nine years because he became the main man center stage with the guts (bravery) and ability to push back on the above because he loves and appreciates his life, family, and country. The “Left” freedom haters hate him for that and painted him as such, and yes, he used the free exposure to allow them to expose themselves.
Like Dr McCullough, John Leake, and the millions more from everywhere with the courage to demand peace and prosperity be inalienable, it’s time to realize it’s not about villains and vigilantes, but exemplifying responsibility.