In Memory of the recent Passing of Samuel Blumenfeld

David & I (Esther) were public school teachers debating over joining the Teacher's union. We read his book: NEA: Trojan Horse in American Education and that settled the conflict. Then we got to hear Samuel L Blumenfeld​ speak. He was dynamic.

Samuel L. Blumenfeld passed from this life today, June 1, 2015. He wrote the book all of my siblings and I learned to read from. My dad also wore out many copies of Alpha-Phonics teaching his fifth and sixth graders who were behind or "dyslexic." I remember going with him to tutor a young man on "the other side of the tracks." The student's mother showed us a bullet hole through their curtain. She had just had the front window replaced. The mother was thrilled with her son's progress in reading, praising my dad. Dad always gave phonics the credit.

Both were public school teachers, they wanted to study education for their own children. A few months later they heard an ad on Christian radio that Blumenfeld was speaking nearby. He was an exuberant speaker who had recently come to faith in Christ through his study of American education and realized the role of Christianity promoting literacy. Blumenfeld had a passion for literacy having tried to teach his mother to read. A Jewish immigrant and intelligent woman, she was never able to "get it" and went to her grave never learning to read English. After her death, Blumenfeld realized that while he tried to teach her the "look say" memorizing whole word method of reading, English should be taught phonetically; memorizing the sounds of letters and letter groups. His other books showed how education had been deliberately dumbed down to create a class of Americans who follow and don't have the confidence or understanding to lead. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfIN9J7Y9us

Mr. Blumenfeld wrote and published nearly to the end of his life, publishing his last book last year. ~Regina

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Samuel Blumenfeld has blessed us greatly through his teaching and books, especially NEA: Trojan Horse in American Education, Is Public Education Necessary?, Alpha Phonics, How to Tutor and many others. David & I (Esther) first heard him speak when out firstborn, Regina, was crawling. We love this man and pray many will read his books. These are full of history giving wisdom to us all. 

NEA: Trojan Horse

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Alpha-Phonics:

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Is Public Education Necessary?

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Educational Freedom

The homeschool movement represents the essence and best hope of a free society in which individual families decide freely how to educate their own children.  Its growth is the best indicator that “free men do not wait for the future; they create it.”  

~Samuel Blumenfeld, Revolution Via Education


“There is no doubt that the decline of Christianity in America is due to the capture of its educational institutions by the humanists. The process started as early as 1805 when the Unitarians took control of Harvard University and began their long-range campaign to eradicate Calvinism as the chief spiritual and cultural force in America.” R. J. Rushdoony, Messianic Character of Education, p. 333

Rousas J. Rushdoony has done more to advance the cause of educational freedom in America than any other Christian theologian. “The Messianic Character of American Education,” first published in 1963 is a monument to independent scholarship and historical investigation. In that book we see clearly delineated the philosophical conflict between humanism and Christianity that has raged for decades throughout American culture and particularly in the field of education. Education is basically a religious function, even when it is atheistic, and Christian education is hardly viable without religious freedom.

~Samuel Blumenfeld, Revolution Via Education

 “Since the old God has been abolished, I am prepared to rule the world.” ~Nietzshe

This is the meaning of humanism’s inescapable totalitarianism. Total government is [for them] a necessity, and everything in man requires it. Humanism seeks to abolish the God of Scripture and rule the world. 
~RJ Rushdoony, Roots of Reconstruction p. 11
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Revolution Via Education

"Commercial [reading] programs...are mostly based on the notion that learning a sight vocabulary [commonly the Dolch word list] is the first step in learning to read. Actually it's the first step toward becoming dyslexic..." 

And when you consider that our museums are now filled with over 100 million fossils of 250,000 different species and not a single series of transitional forms has been found among them, one begins to suspect that a gigantic hoax is being perpetrated by the scientists.” ~Samuel Blumenfeld, Revolution Via Education 

For teaching reading, we love 
Samuel Blumenfeld's Alpha Phonics 

http://www.howtotutor.com/

The Fabian Window Exposes the Jesuits of Socialism

The young idealists had their religious beliefs virtually demolished by Darwinism and science. Many found their cause turned to socialism.

In 1910 Shaw confided to a friend that he wanted the Fabians to be "the Jesuits of socialism." He commissioned an artist to design and construct this stained-glass window for the society's headquarters. For thirty years the window was privately displayed to the socialist inner circle, for in the middle it was the Fabian coat-of-arms: a wolf in sheep's clothing. It also depicts George Bernard Shaw and Sidney Webb as blacksmiths about to smash the world with sledgehammers, beneath the inscription, Remold it nearer to the heart's desire."

In 1887 the Fabian Society published its credo, to which every member

was obliged to subscribe: "The society works...for the extinction of private property in land...[and] for the transfer to the community of such Industrial Capitol as can be conveniently be handled socially..."

The main strategy of the Society was to develop, through permeation of the educated class, a socialist elite.

In 1894, the Fabians established the London School of Economics and Political Science, which was to become the training ground for the socialist elite.

Read more in Samuel Blumenfeld's Revolution in Education.