Archive - Dissident Teacher

The Young American's History Library

It turns out all students love history; they just have to find the right teacher.

Mar 31 •

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February 2024

How to Get Your Child to Read in Three [Easy?] Steps

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "[...]But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is…

Feb 11 •

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Books to Build Great Americans (Ages 13-17)

"Books tap the wisdom of our species -- the greatest minds, the best teachers -- from all over the world and from all our history. And they're patient…

Feb 4 •

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January 2024

It Takes a Village

Your child is a solitary Indian in an institution with thousands of chiefs and you, dear Parent, aren’t one of them. How can you make the chiefs listen…

Jan 7 •

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December 2023

Books to Build Great Americans (Ages 8-12)

"Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write." - John Adams

Dec 17, 2023 •

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November 2023

To save America, we must remember who she is: Liberty, self-taught.

Nov 23, 2023 •

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Books to Build Great Americans (Ages 3-7)

"Once you learn to read, you will be forever free." - Frederick Douglass

Nov 23, 2023 •

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October 2023

Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war.

Oct 22, 2023 •

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Public School is Dead

A reflection on a conversation with an old teaching buddy.

Oct 3, 2023 •

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July 2023

When You Know You Don't Know You Must Find Out

The argument that parents already have access to all the curriculum -- what is taught in the classroom -- is disingenuous at best. I explain below.

Jul 25, 2023 •

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The Sisyphus Gambit

Where we make the work activist teachers have to do to indoctrinate kids heavier lifting. It's time to teach the Useful Idiots all about malicious…

Jul 20, 2023 •

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June 2023

Inspired by the King of American rhetoric, the President who ended slavery, I present one option by which we might free our own children.

Jun 21, 2023 •

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