Dr. Everett Piper is the President of Oklahoma Wesleyan University.
His speech at a Common Core forum in Edmond, Oklahoma makes the case
that Common Core State Standards are indeed “common” and that a true
liberal arts education has no place for anything ‘”common”. Ideas have
consequences. Ideas matter. Every human and every human institution is
blessed or cursed by their guiding principals – by the importance they
place on their ideas. In many ways, we inevitably do practice what we
preach. (What we teach in school today becomes our future)
Dr. Piper states:
"I am against common core because I believe there are ideas that are
tested by time, defended by reason and validated by experience, and
many of these ideas, especially in our day and time are anything BUT
common.
I believe in the law of nature and nature’s God. I
believe we can know that rape is wrong, the holocaust was bad, and
hatred and racism is to be reviled. I believe that even though we cannot
produce these truths in a TEST that we hold them to be self evident.
Laws that no human being can deny regardless of what is common to the
culture.
My personal favorite quote:
I am against
common core because as an educator I recognize that when we exchange the
truth of God for a lie that we build a house of cards that will fall to
mankind’s inevitable temper tantrum of seeking control and power.
He closes with a POWERFUL Question:
Does subscribing to a common core of ideas, constructed by some
faceless group of bureaucrats, behind some closed door, off in some
unknown location, make you feel more or less free?
This is well worth listening to in its entirety! (Almost 29 minutes)
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