A Note to My Readers on My New Book, >Fundamentals of an Excellent Liberal Arts Education<, Before Scrolling on Down to the Newest Snippet

A Note to My Readers     >>>>> 


Immediately following this note, please scroll on down to the newly posted ninth snippet that I have posted on this blog from my new book, Fundamentals of an Excellent Liberal Arts Education.  This book provides all of the essential information that a high school student should have as she or he goes forth to live a life of cultural enrichment, civic participation, and professional satisfaction.  The book covers the subjects of economics, political science, psychology, world religions, world history, American history, African American history, literature, English usage, fine arts, mathematics, biology, chemistry, and physics.  Thus, my readers now have snippets from each of the first nine chapters, with five more to follow.


Many people would be glad to have the amount of knowledge contained within Fundamentals of an Excellent Liberal Arts Education after having graduated from a good university.  Neither our high schools nor our universities in the United States are very good at delivering a comprehensive, knowledge-intensive education.  Thus, when voters go to the polls, they tend to vote on emotions and impressions, rather than facts or logic;  and when people sit down with a newspaper or read articles online, they are typically unequipped to comprehend the history and the context of the articles that they are reading.


The Minneapolis Public Schools and other centralized school districts deliver such terrible education to our K-12 students that I got tired of always having to deliver mini-lectures to my students on all manner of subjects about which they should have learned in school.  In the midst of training them to take the ACT or to read a challenging, college preparatory article, I would have to interrupt our flow every few minutes to provide the history and informational context for an important topic covered in the article.


Although terrible, centralized public school systems are the most important unit of delivery of K-12 education.  The educational future of the United States does not reside in charter schools, which typically are worse than the conventional schools of our locally centralized school systems.  And the notion of vouchers is absurd:  Private schools lack curricular continuity from one school to another, and there will never be enough high-quality private schools for the masses of students in the United States to attend.


Thus, we must turn our locally centralized school districts into effective units of delivery of an excellent K-12 education.  I am already giving my students a knowledge-intensive, logically sequenced K-12 education of excellence in the New Salem Educational Initiative, now enhanced powerfully with the ability to access the efficiently presented information in Fundamentals of an Excellent Liberal Arts Education.  This book is also a guide for the establishment of a logically sequenced, knowledge-intensive education in the Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS), the institutions of which most of my students attend.  I will be pressing Interim Superintendent Goar and the MPS Board of Education to deliver an education modeled on the curriculum embedded in Fundamentals of an Excellent Liberal Arts Education, even as I educate as many students as possible via the Tuesday evening program and the seven-day-a-week small-group program of the New Salem Educational Initiative.


Please scroll on down now to read the most recently posted snippet from the book, and then on down further to read the other snippets and other articles on the blog.