[UNDER CONSTRUCTION]

We are living in a period of

Neoliberal Collapse

and

democratic decline.

My proposed solution is

Civic Education Reform.

"The sound of the bell at Gion Temple echoes the impermanence of all things. The faded flowers of the sala trees bear witness to the truth that all who flourish are destined to decay. Yes, pride must have its fall, for it is as unsubstantial as a dream on a spring night. The brave and violent man, he too must pass away in the end, like a whirl of dust in the wind."

Heike Monogatari

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Neoliberal Collapse

"As for those who go in for self-indulgence and are slaves of their own bodies—people who measure everything that they should seek to avoid in life by the yardstick of pleasure and pain—even if they are right (and there is no need to take issue with them here) let us tell them to preach in their own little gardens, and let us ask them to keep away for a little while from any participation in public life, an area of which they know nothing and have never wished to know anything."

Cicero, The Laws

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Democratic Decline

For, inasmuch as every family is a part of a state, and these relationships are the parts of a family, and the virtue of the part must have regard to the virtue of the whole, women and children must be trained by education with an eye to the constitution, if the virtues of either of them are supposed to make any difference in the virtues of the state. And they must make a difference: for the children grow up to be citizens, and half the free persons in a state are women."

Aristotle, Politics

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What Is Civic Education?

"What have men been learning till now in the universities and monasteries except to become asses, blockheads, and numbskulls? For twenty, even forty, years, they pored over their books, and still failed to master either Latin or German."

Martin Luther, To the Councilmen of All Cities in Germany

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Neoliberal Universities

"Look at him in his relations to posterity, as the father of a family, as a member of a generation which sows those seeds of virtue or vice, that, centuries hence, shall bear fruit or poison;—look at him as a citizen in a free government, throwing his influence and his vote into one or the other of the scales where peace and war, glory and infamy, are weighed;—look at him in these relations, and consider how a virtuous or a vicious education tends to fit or to unfit him for them all, and you will catch one more glimpse of the importance of the subject now presented to your consideration."

Horace Mann, The Necessity of Education in a Republican Government

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Secularism As Amoral Education

Steps to Reform

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Primary and Secondary Education

Grant Streamlining Lobby

Lobby to simplify the complex and expensive grant laws.

Civic Education Pedagogy

Write a book(let) outlining a new civic pedagogy, focusing on teaching methods.

Sample Curricula

Create sample cirricula to illustrate civic pedagogy in practice and in a full context.

Lobby to Change State Standards

Use the pedagogy, curricula, and fact sheet to lobby state politicians to support radical civic education reform.

Higher Education

Anti-Bureaucrat Lobby

Lobby to remove unsustainable university bureaucracy.

Accreditation Reform Lobby

Lobby to reduce unqualified government oversight and limitations on university accreditation.

National Qualifications Framework

Lobby for the establishment of a framework to compare university and independent course credit.

Advocacy for Alternative Approaches to Higher Education

Advocacy for Alternative Routes to Higher Education

Support specialized classes, private tutoring, etc. and their independent qualifications.

Crossroads

These projects affect both primary/secondary and higher education.

Course Credit Software

Create a student database software that keeps track of student progress by theme rather than by course, allowing both detailed accomodation as well as straightforward credit transfer without requiring standardization.

Software Distribution

Propose the adoption of the software to school boards, principals, teachers, etc. and create networks for common use.

Teacher Education Reform

Lobby and advocate for teacher education that is affordable, scalable, and focused on civic education.

Futoko (Dropout)

Create a 3D animation that deals with the failure of neoliberal education and neoliberalism in general as a means of promoting civic education reform to a wide population.