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In the name of education : how weird ideologies corrupt our public schools, politics, the media, higher institutions, and history

Print Book, English, 2007
2nd ed
Xulon Press, [Longwood, Fla.?], 2007
411 pages ; 28 cm
9781600347603, 1600347606
232359525
PART I: Inside The Education System
11(164)
The Abolition of Education
15(56)
What's Going On?
15(4)
The Genesis of the School War
19(1)
Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind
20(1)
Who Owns Our Children?
21(4)
The Philosophers and Western Civilization
25(1)
Allan Bloom and the Critics
26(4)
Why This Book?
30(4)
Religion, Culture, and Civilization
34(3)
Worldviews at War
37(6)
How Christianity Saved the West
43(4)
The Third World, Progress, and Paganism
47(2)
America, Christianity, and Progress
49(7)
Slavery and Progress
56(1)
A Brief Personal Odyssey
57(10)
Racist! You Are a Racist!
67(1)
Credit Where It's Due
68(3)
Education, The Schools, and The Psychologists
71(16)
A Brief History of Education
71(2)
The Age of High Grades
73(7)
Schools and Athletic Games
80(2)
The Schools and the Psychologists
82(5)
Parents, The Schools, And Education
87(28)
Parents and the Educats
88(6)
Why Parents Don't Need Pop Psychologists
94(2)
Toxic Parents or Toxic Psychologists?
96(3)
Parents Who Made a Difference
99(3)
Sigmund Freud and Jean Jacques Rousseau on Education
102(4)
Education and Our Culture
106(6)
The Musical Connection
112(3)
Music, The Philosophers, And Education
115(60)
Inspiration: The Greeks Knew It All Along
115(8)
Music and Man
123(2)
Aleister Crowley, Hollywood, and Occultism
125(13)
Family Education Matters
138(3)
The Enlightenment: The Quest for Reason
141(7)
The Ivy League Schools and Their Christian Founding Principles
148(2)
Selling One's Soul to Whom?
150(9)
Moral Virtues: The Results of Laws of Nature?
159(4)
Christianity Meets the Skeptics, Scoffers, and Lunatics
163(6)
The Scholars: Are They Always Right?
169(1)
Exegesis and Eisegesis
170(5)
PART II: In The Name Of History
175(80)
Slavery, History, And Christianity
177(40)
Setting the Stage
177(6)
Who Abolished Slavery?
183(3)
The Bible and Slavery
186(13)
Orlando Patterson and the Da Vinci Code
199(9)
Orlando Patterson, Rudolph Bultmann, and Others
208(2)
David Brion Davis and Bernard Lewis
210(7)
Darwinism, Racism, And Inferior Species
217(20)
Darwinism's Influence on Nazism, Communism, and World Depopulation
217(7)
Creationism, Darwinism, and the Intelligentsia
224(4)
The Media, Propaganda, and Critics of Intelligent Design
228(9)
The NCLB, The Schools, and The Educats
237(8)
What is the No Child Left Behind?
237(1)
Money, Money, and More Money
237(2)
Where Did the Money Go?
239(3)
Some Problems with the NCLB
242(3)
John Dewey, the Schools, and the Classics
245(10)
The Classics vs. Popular Fictional Books
245(2)
That Is a Good Question!
247(3)
John Dewey and Progressive Education
250(2)
Can Anything Be Done to Fix the Crisis?
252(1)
What's an Educator to Do?
252(3)
PART III: Doctors of Ideologies
255(70)
Slavery and Ideologies in the Shadow of Affirmative Action, Islam, Multiculturalism, and Afrocentrism
257(50)
A Brief History of Affirmative Action
257(4)
Affirmative Action and Slavery
261(2)
Islam, History and Jihad
263(9)
Are We to Blame the Whites for Past ``Injuries''?
272(4)
Affirmative Action: The Greatest Joke Ever Told
276(3)
Ideologies Promoted by Black Leaders and the Nation of Islam
279(4)
Bill Cosby (and Michael Eric Dyson), Rap Music, and the Critics
283(6)
Michael Eric Dyson Again
289(1)
The Shadow of Affirmative Action and Social Policies
289(5)
Afrocentrism and Multiculturalism Examined
294(9)
Is Affirmative Action Really Necessary?
303(1)
Summation
304(3)
Where Do We Go From Here?
307(18)
The Vital Issue
307(3)
Knowing the Real Enemy
310(1)
The Moment of Truth
311(2)
What If...?
313(5)
Ye Are Too Superstitious
318(1)
Ye Shall Be as Gods
319(6)
Notes325(62)
Acknowledgments387(2)
Select Bibliography389(14)
Index403(8)
About the author411