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RUSH: Who\u2019s next? Marie in Kansas, nice to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s so good to talk to you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you very much.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I kinda just wanted to change gears a little bit. The reason I called was to talk about education, not health care, because I\u2019m a public educator. And today was the only day I had to call. Yesterday I was at a curriculum-planning meeting, and they were talking about changing the curriculum so much for kids starting in middle school, not teaching them history anymore.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait. Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah. Hold it. They\u2019re gonna just wipe history from the curriculum?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Where in Kansas is this? <\/p>\n

CALLER: Uhhh&hellip;<\/p>\n

RUSH: You don\u2019t want to say. <\/p>\n

CALLER: No. It\u2019s rural.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know what surprises me about this?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Nothing?<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, no. I\u2019m being serious. Let me tell you what surprises me. History is the vehicle they\u2019re using to pollute kids\u2019 minds with current events. They\u2019re using history classes to advocate global warming, to advocate Obama\u2019s presidential agenda, to trash conservatives and Republicans. There\u2019s a lot of places where history is not even being taught at all. It\u2019s being written every day under the guise of history, but it\u2019s basically current events politics being taught. I\u2019m surprised that they would — why do they want to do this?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay. This is the reason that they want to completely stop teaching history and social studies is because they want to start teaching real-world economics and start teaching them about their future. And, this isn\u2019t all. They want to start in elementary school all through middle school gearing them toward a specific career so that when they\u2019re in high school they will essentially be working toward that career, not getting a well-rounded education so that in college they can, you know, maybe have a history class, maybe have a fine arts class, choose what they want to do and in high school they\u2019ll be working in their career. So they want to put them in this little box and only teach them these little things so they\u2019re just like robots.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, this sounds very familiar to the way the ChiComs do it. They orient kids toward one specific area that the state needs help in and they educate them on that and that\u2019s it. And if they find these gifted students that are really smart then they assign them maybe to the party and give them the party apparatus as well. They used to do that in the Soviet Union. But why can\u2019t you do both, why can\u2019t you teach history and real world economics? I mean how long is a school day in rural Kansas?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, right now it\u2019s — we\u2019re extending it just a little bit. It\u2019s about eight hours.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I have just been informed that in Palm Beach County, which is where we are here, that three years ago when you enter the ninth grade you are mandated to select a major, career.<\/p>\n

CALLER: How is that a well-rounded education? I don\u2019t know. It\u2019s very frustrating. And it\u2019s so frustrating to the point that I just almost don\u2019t want to be a part of it, but then if I quit, who\u2019s going to say no, who\u2019s going to be an advocate?<\/p>\n

RUSH: See, I could teach real world economics here in five seconds. Real world economics is Republicans are evil, corporations are evil, and capitalism is immoral. End of course. If you can repeat that you get an A, and we\u2019ll move you on to the next subject. Look, the subject of education has been one that has interested me for a long time but not in the traditional soppy way. (crying) ‘We must educate our children, we must educate our children.\u2019 I get so sick and tired of talking about funding and more money and education. The education system missed me. See, I knew when I was nine years old what I wanted to do and they didn\u2019t care. They went the well-rounded route. Now, I understood it, it\u2019s their business to educate people. There are people who are trained specialists at educating people, and they have to do it in a mass way because, you know, 30 to 40 people in a class. I\u2019m talking about my little high school and junior high. But that was what was frustrating for me about it because I knew what I wanted to do and so little of what I had to do was oriented towards it. And I talked to my mom and dad about it \u2019cause I skipped school, especially when I got my first radio job at 16. I\u2019d hang around the radio station all day. <\/p>\n

They didn\u2019t understand. They came out of the Great Depression. The opportunity for an education was like the greatest gift that you could have. And I\u2019m bored. I don\u2019t care. I don\u2019t like the social aspects of it. I don\u2019t like the teachers. ‘But, son, you\u2019re not old enough to know what\u2019s good for you on this yet.\u2019 My dad, whatever happened at school they were right and I was wrong, that\u2019s just the way it was. But I\u2019ll be honest, I did soak up a lot when I was in school. I did soak up a lot that I didn\u2019t know I was soaking up. But there were lot of courses I took at school, I took all the way up to calculus, I don\u2019t even know what it is now. I did okay in geometry but I never use it and I don\u2019t know if I could now. There\u2019s a lot of stuff that when you talk about a well-rounded education… I can honestly say this, when I finally quit college for all the reasons I\u2019ve told you, I don\u2019t need to rehash \u2019em, it was probably about six months later when I had moved away from home, and suddenly like a big slap in the face I realized I was going to have to demonstrate what I know because I don\u2019t have a piece of paper that says I know anything. I don\u2019t have a diploma. I got a high school diploma but big whoop. But I don\u2019t have this magic diploma from some college that tells anybody I\u2019m educated, and that\u2019s what gets your foot in the door in an interview. After that it doesn\u2019t mean anything. <\/p>\n

So that\u2019s when I actually started reading voluminously, omnivorously, that\u2019s when I started trying to soak up everything I could that interested me. Now, I\u2019m not saying I am self-educated, \u2019cause I did spend all those years in school, I did soak up a lot of stuff, and particularly American history, literature and stuff, but I am convinced that I did more learning and acquiring of knowledge — well, I know it\u2019s true \u2019cause I\u2019m still doing it, and I\u2019ve been out of school a lot longer than I was in it. And that\u2019s another thing I found out about people. People, when they graduated college, they thought that was it, the paper, the diploma said it all, and their curiosity ended. They had met the objective of being educated. I haven\u2019t fulfilled it yet because I never will, it\u2019s an ongoing thing. As long as you\u2019re alive and as long as you\u2019re curious you\u2019re going to be learning things, like I didn\u2019t know what a cargo cult was until a couple days ago, and now I know a cargo cult is basically Obama, but I had never heard of it. So the whole subject of education is a fascinating thing to me, \u2019cause we do put faith in the people who are trained educators, here\u2019s how to best give a young person a well-rounded education. <\/p>\n

But I have to tell you something. If I was nine, and if I had been able to say, ‘I want to learn everything I can about the talent, skills necessary to do broadcasting,\u2019 I woulda soaked it up and they woulda not been able to get me out of that school, but instead I was told, ‘No, no, no, no, no. You\u2019re not going to stick with that, it\u2019s impossible that somebody nine-year-olds knows what they want to do, or 12-year-olds even.\u2019 So I don\u2019t know, I have mixed emotions about it but I understand your suspicions, because a bunch of libs are now running these institutions, and the whole notion of not teaching history, I know exactly what that\u2019s about. That is about making sure that those kids don\u2019t have slightest idea what America really is all about, what it has been, and what it can still be. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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