A great war is being waged in the schools of America.  To teach or not to teach – that is the question. Lots of knowledge or hardly any knowledge at all?  Teach directly or hardly teach at all?  Constructivism is the contemporary jargon for hardly teaching at all.  It's a destructive fad.  Can this be explained? The direct transmission of knowledge by teachers, the acquisition of knowledge by students – these traditional goals are precisely what the Education Establishment seeks to eliminate from the culture.  Our educrats seem to be in love with ignorance and eager to make sure everyone has plenty of it. Traditionally, teachers knew ten times, probably one hundred times, what students knew.  A lecture is the fastest, most efficient way to pass all that knowledge from teacher to students.  Schools around the world have always done it that way.  All corporations around the world do it that way.  (Ken...(Read Full Article)