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Revolutionary for Education: Maria Montessori

Aug 10, 2016 | Culture

From EXTRAORDINARY WOMEN: Maria Montessori | KPBS:

"Maria Montessori was a woman of vision. In a remarkable life spanning eight decades, Maria Montessori, challenged convention to pioneer a radical new system of education; one which focused on the child as an independent learner and which spread to all corners of the world, affecting the schooling of millions. Her visionary method of education has helped produce some of the most creative and successful people on the planet including the founders of Amazon.com, Wikipedia and Google. But Montessori’s revolution might never have occurred had she not had the tenacity to confront prejudice head on."

You can watch the full video of her life here: http://bbcbentomatics.lunchbox.pbs.org/extraordinary-women/
Time To Bring Native Americans The Foundation of the American Dream: Property Rights

Time To Bring Native Americans The Foundation of the American Dream: Property Rights

Aug 9, 2016 | Culture

Native Americans in the U.S. and Property Rights: A Comparative Look at Canada's First Nations Property Ownership Act - The Atlantic:
The 2 million Natives in the U.S. have the highest rate of poverty of any racial group—almost twice the national average. This deprivation seems to contribute not only to higher rates of crime but also to higher rates of suicide, alcoholism, gang membership, and sexual abuse. As of 2011, the suicide rate for Native American men aged 15 to 34 was 1.5 times higher than for the general population. Suicide is the second leading cause of death among Natives aged 10 to 34.Alcohol-use disorders are more likely among American Indian youths than among any other ethnic group. Involvement in gang activity is more prevalent among Native Americans than it is among Latinos and African Americans. Native American women report being raped two-and-a-half times as often as the national average. 
The rate of child abuse among Native Americans is twice as high as the national average. And each of these problems is worse among the half of Natives who live on reservations.[...]
The economic devastation in American Indian communities is not simply a result of their history as victims of forced assimilation, war, and mass murder; it’s a result of the federal government’s current policies, and particularly its restrictions on Natives’ property rights.Reservation land is held “in trust” for Indians by the federal government. The goal of this policy was originally to keep Indians contained to certain lands. Now, it has shifted to preserving these lands for indigenous peoples. But the effect is the same. Indians can’t own land, so they can’t build equity. This prevents American Indians from reaping numerous benefits.[...]Indian reservations, Terry Anderson and Shawn Regan wrote in Louisiana State University’s Journal of Energy Law and Resources, “contain almost 30 percent of the nation’s coal reserves west of the Mississippi, 50 percent of potential uranium reserves, and 20 percent of known oil and gas reserves”—resources worth nearly $1.5 trillion, or $290,000 per tribal member. Tragically, “86 percent of Indian lands with energy or mineral potential remain undeveloped because of federal control of reservations that keeps Indians from fully capitalizing on their natural resources if they desire.”[...]The people I met on reservations were not suffering because others don’t understand their heritage or know their tribal language. What American Indians need are real property rights.

Progressive Education: Why They Support Bernie Sanders

Apr 12, 2016 | Culture

A friend wrote us:

I have heard many young people describe why they support Bernie Sanders, and I empathize.

They believe they are being screwed by our government, and their futures are being robbed, and that is true.

They believe that cronyism and Washington picking winners and losers, is unjust, and that is true.

They believe that an outsider, an anti-establishment candidate, someone not beholden to special interests or to corrupt political parties, is our only hope, and that is true.

They believe what's fundamentally missing is values and integrity, that politicians are immoral thieves and power-lusters, and that is true.

Regrettably, these youth are so uneducated and ignorant that they believe a socialist—the very essence of future-robbing, cronyism, corruption, immorality and power-lusting—is their salvation. It's really the perfection of Progressive education we are witnessing: for 50 years our children have been indoctrinated instead of educated.

This slow journey by the Left is how all "cultural revolutions"—and destruction and war, and death camps, arise from formerly civilized societies. But that's superficial. Leftist propaganda is ineffective, so blatantly vacuous and stupid, that the only way it works is that our culture has already instilled the moral code of altruism into our youth. Conservatives and their religious values, included.

Everyone (almost) is pro-altruism and no one (almost) dares to question it. Declare you are against selfishness and for the needy, and you get a blank check to rewrite history and facts, defy logic, blame scapegoats, and commit the worst atrocities in the name of "the oppressed."

Victims of Communism in Cuba: 73,000

Mar 22, 2016 | Culture

From Victims of Communism in Cuba: 73,000 (CNSNews):

As President Barack Obama currently visits Cuba, it merits noting that the Communist regime south of Florida has killed an estimated 73,000 people since the dictator Fidel Castro seized power in 1959, according to the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, which was established by an act of Congress in 1993.The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, which runs the Museum of Communism, is a non-profit group created “to educate this generation and future generations about the ideology, history, and legacy of communism,” reads its website. It also is building a memorial “to commemorate the more than 100 million victims of communism” worldwide.

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