Value Based Education

Since shifting from “academic” based education to “values” based education, the United States has fallen as a world leader of education. This movement is producing a culture that cannot think critically and capable of little more than menial tasks. Though the United States is spending $11,000 per student per year, it ranks 19th out of 21 Industrialized Nations and the United States is growing dumber. Psychology-based curriculum is slowly changing the attitudes, values, and beliefs of the students who no longer learn academic reading, writing, arithmetic, or conceptual thinking but are being taught feel good education instead.
Some history of values-based education The United States has been making a deliberate movement from teaching basic academics. A national campaign to “fix” the schools has been taking place for over a decade. The shift has been from academic education (1880 – 1960) to values-based education today. In 1947, National Education Association (NEA) leader William Carr clearly stated this new agenda when he wrote in the NEA Journal: “The teaching profession prepares the leaders of the future…. The statesman, the industrialist, the lawyers, the newspapermen…all the leaders of tomorrow are in schools today.” Carr also wrote: “The psychological foundations for wider loyalties must be laid. Teach those attitudes which will result ultimately in the creation of a world citizenship and world government… we can and should teach those skills and attitudes which will help to create a society in which world citizenship is possible, Professor Benjamin Bloom (Chicago University 1948 to 1953) known for his “Six steps to learning” and hailed as the Father of Outcome-based Education proclaimed: “The purpose of education and the schools is to change the thoughts, feelings, and actions of students.” Bloom’s beliefs regarding how environmental influences affect human potential supplied the foundation for the Head Start Program in the United States.