The Anabaptist Jacques
Crusader
Most Applied Scholastic schools, in fact every one that I know of, operate on these principles:
1) that a student should progress at his own speed, and that education should align with the purposes and interests of the child.
2) that effective education requires doingness as well as significance.
3) that schools should develop a community spirit. Schools should be a safe social environment, free of drugs and violence, where students are free from invalidation from other students or any anti-social behavior in general.
4) that the course room supervisors are to guide the students to the right materials and assist in the student’s learning. They do not generally believe that the school lessons should be rote exercises in rules and recitations.
5) that the goal of education is to help the child succeed not just in the classroom, but in life. This is progressive education.
And Applied Scholastics’ educators use the Study Technology of L. Ron Hubbard in their efforts to achieve these kind of educational environments.
But what I find interesting when talking to Applied Scholastic educators is their universal condemnation of the educational philosophy of John Dewey.
One director even told me that John Dewey was a communist spy sent to destroy American education.
This view of John Dewey comes from the book “The Leipzig Connection” and other writings of Hubbard.
The following is from the Encyclopedia Britannica entry on John Dewey. I have added the brackets to show the correlation between these and the numbers listed above.
“…the chief underlying tenets of Dewey’s philosophy of education.
[1] These were that the educational process must begin with and build up on the interests of the child;
[2] that it must provide opportunity for the interplay of thinking and doing in the child’s classroom experience;
[3] that the school should be organized as a ‘miniature community’;
[4] that the teacher should be a guide and co-worker with the pupils, rather than a taskmaster assigning a fixed set of lessons and recitations;
[5] and that the goal of education is the growth of the child in all aspects of its being.”
How strange, but how typical of Scientologists.
The Anabaptist Jacques
1) that a student should progress at his own speed, and that education should align with the purposes and interests of the child.
2) that effective education requires doingness as well as significance.
3) that schools should develop a community spirit. Schools should be a safe social environment, free of drugs and violence, where students are free from invalidation from other students or any anti-social behavior in general.
4) that the course room supervisors are to guide the students to the right materials and assist in the student’s learning. They do not generally believe that the school lessons should be rote exercises in rules and recitations.
5) that the goal of education is to help the child succeed not just in the classroom, but in life. This is progressive education.
And Applied Scholastics’ educators use the Study Technology of L. Ron Hubbard in their efforts to achieve these kind of educational environments.
But what I find interesting when talking to Applied Scholastic educators is their universal condemnation of the educational philosophy of John Dewey.
One director even told me that John Dewey was a communist spy sent to destroy American education.
This view of John Dewey comes from the book “The Leipzig Connection” and other writings of Hubbard.
The following is from the Encyclopedia Britannica entry on John Dewey. I have added the brackets to show the correlation between these and the numbers listed above.
“…the chief underlying tenets of Dewey’s philosophy of education.
[1] These were that the educational process must begin with and build up on the interests of the child;
[2] that it must provide opportunity for the interplay of thinking and doing in the child’s classroom experience;
[3] that the school should be organized as a ‘miniature community’;
[4] that the teacher should be a guide and co-worker with the pupils, rather than a taskmaster assigning a fixed set of lessons and recitations;
[5] and that the goal of education is the growth of the child in all aspects of its being.”
How strange, but how typical of Scientologists.
The Anabaptist Jacques