In the Name of Education

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Xulon Press, 2007 - Education - 412 pages
In The Name of Education is perhaps the rarest book any will ever read on what is happening in education today. It maybe the best book that convincingly examines the crisis in education from a Christian perspective. Praises for In the Name of Education: ¿What Jonas E. Alexis is saying needs to be said; and what he is saying must be heard!¿ Dr. Thomas Simmons, social studies teacher ¿In the Name of Education is not only worth reading, it is worth believing, worth heeding, and most important, worth acting upon.¿ Dr. David A. Noebel, best-selling author of Understanding the Times ¿I have been privileged to read this outstanding book. The documentation and insights are superb. I will certainly recommend it to others.¿ Texe Marrs, best-selling author of more than 35 books ¿I am much impressed with the range of Alexis¿ thought and the extent of his reading. This book is obviously about much more than education¿¿ Lyle H. Rossiter, Jr, MD, forensic psychiatrist and author of The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness. ¿This is an interesting and at the same time disturbing [book that deals with] disturbing issues that are penetrating our public school system.¿ Armstrong Williams, Radio Host ¿In The Name of Education takes its readers on an in-depth investigation of our public education system and proves it to be the battlefield of a culture war.¿ Finn Laursen, Executive Director of Christian educators ¿Alexis has written an important book.¿ Don DeYoung, Ph.D. in physics and chairman of the Department of Physical Science at Grace College, Indiana ¿`In the Name of Education¿ documents the weird and dangerous ideas that have put generations of Americans at risk, even as it points the way back toward genuine intellectual and moral reform.¿ Jim Nelson Black, Ph.D., author of Freefall of the American University ¿This book has so much information and documentation that is difficult to dismiss the themes.¿ Mary Gallimore, M.S., Social Studies Teacher
 

Contents

THE ABOLITION OF EDUCATION
15
The Genesis of the School War
19
Allan Blooms The Closing of the American Mind
20
Who Owns Our Children?
21
The Philosophers and Western Civilization
25
Allan Bloom and the Critics
26
Why This Book?
30
Religion Culture and Civilization
34
Christianity Meets the Skeptics Scoffers and Lunatics
163
Are They Always Right?
169
Exegesis and Eisegesis
170
IN THE NAME OF HISTORY
175
SLAVERY HISTORY AND CHRISTIANITY
177
Who Abolished Slavery?
183
The Bible and Slavery
186
Orlando Patterson and the Da Vinci Code
199

Worldviews at War
37
How Christianity Saved the West
43
The Third World Progress and Paganism
47
America Christianity and Progress
49
Slavery and Progress
56
A Brief Personal Odyssey
57
Racist You Are a Racist
67
Credit Where Its Due
68
EDUCATION THE SCHOOLS AND THE PSYCHOLOGISTS
71
The Age of High Grades
73
Schools and Athletic Games
80
The Schools and the Psychologists
82
PARENTS THE SCHOOLS AND EDUCATION
87
Parents and the Educats
88
Why Parents Dont Need Pop Psychologists
94
Toxic Parents or Toxic Psychologists?
96
Parents Who Made a Difference
99
Sigmund Freud and Jean Jacques Rousseau on Education
102
Education and Our Culture
106
The Musical Connection
112
MUSIC THE PHILOSOPHERS AND EDUCATION
115
Music and Man
123
Aleister Crowley Hollywood and Occultism
125
Family Education Matters
138
The Quest for Reason
141
The Ivy League Schools and Their Christian Founding Principles
148
Selling Ones Soul to Whom?
150
The Results of Laws of Nature?
159
Orlando Patterson Rudolph Bultmann and Others
208
David Brion Davis and Bernard Lewis
210
DARWINISM RACISM AND INFERIOR SPECIES
217
Creationism Darwinism and the Intelligentsia
224
The Media Propaganda and Critics of Intelligent Design
228
THE NCLB THE SCHOOLS AND THE EDUCATS
237
Where Did the Money Go?
239
Some Problems with the NCLB
242
JOHN DEWEY THE SCHOOLS AND THE CLASSICS
245
That Is a Good Question
247
John Dewey and Progressive Education
250
Can Anything Be Done to Fix the Crisis?
252
DOCTORS OF IDEOLOGIES
255
SLAVERY AND IDEOLOGIES IN THE SHADOW OF AFFIRMATIVE ACTION ISLAM MULTICULTURALISM AND AFROCENTRISM
257
Affirmative Action and Slavery
261
Islam History and Jihad
263
Are We to Blame the Whites for Past Injuries?
272
The Greatest Joke Ever Told
276
Ideologies Promoted by Black Leaders and the Nation of Islam
279
Bill Cosby and Michael Eric Dyson Rap Music and the Critics
283
Michael Eric Dyson Again
289
WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?
307
Notes
325
Acknowledgments
387
Index
403
About the author
411
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