Education...
As Americans, we should be learning about
Government; not taught by it.
Lets start at the beginning as the history of
education tells you how and what must be done to achieve
those heights of enlightenment you want for yourself and your children.
Through out early history, education
was confined to the ruling classes (Command Class) as they felt that if the
people could read and write, then they would not be so inclined to accept their
role as (lesser beings) whose function it was to do the bidding of their lords.
Then, with the invention of the printing press, books started to be published in
volume and they started to find their way into the hands of the lesser beings.
Laws (rules of action) were passed prohibiting the lesser beings from possessing
them, frequently carrying the death penalty. As it became harder and harder to
keep books out of the lesser beings hands, the Command Class shifted its
position and decided it would be easier to decide what books the lesser beings
could read than prohibit books in total. Books were only available that would
not cause the lesser beings to challenge the authority of the Command Class but
instead, accept their respective roles as right and proper. This idea flourished
up until the time of the Reformation. King James had his version of the bible
written; not to enlighten the people about their equality with each other, but
to prove the divine right of Kings. Even though he was a benevolent King, it
backfired.
The first settlers to our shores were people persecuted by the
Command Class because they would not accept the idea they were lesser beings.
They came with their tools and their books including the King James Bible.
Possessing the zeal and liberty to enlighten themselves they started
accomplishing things beyond any of their wildest imaginations. In 1620, Dr.
Harvard started his university by donating one half of his Estate and his entire
library to the cause. "Rules, and Precepts that are observed in the college…Let
every Student be plainly instructed, and earnestly pressed to consider well, the
maine end of his life and studies is, to know God and Jesus Christ which is
eternal life, John 17:3 and therefore to lay Christ in the bottome, as the only
foundation of all found knowledge and learning…" Taken from a letter dated
Boston, Sept. 26, 1642 that related to Harvard’s foundational principles. "Christo
et Ecclesle" heads the ancient seal of Harvard College.
Schooling was the delight of parents and children. The quest
for enlightenment and freedom to be enlightened led to accomplishments in
America unknown in the Old World. Schools were frequently in the churches as
these structures were best suited to do both moral and intellectual instruction
as they ran hand in hand. There was no such thing as a government school. The
settlers had had a taste of the Command Classes "educational" system and
concluded that government was the opinion of the people in power and no one
would be permitted to learn anything that would in any way counter that opinion.
When the Constitution was written, it was no accident that
they made no reference whatsoever to education. The Founders knew full well the
inherent dangers arising out of government schools. Their successes had taught
them that leaving the education of their progeny to the loving care of parents
and the local community would lead to the development of minds far more advanced
than their own. After all, what parent worth his salt would not delight in
seeing his offspring advance to heights far above their own. The schools were
for enlightenment in the arts and sciences, true art and science having their
origin with God. The church was for developing moral character so that
intellectual enlightenment would be used for good, not evil, as it all to often
is today. Teachers respected that and were expected to be possessed of a moral
character themselves that would be a role model for their students, not a
contradiction as people knew full well you cannot separate spiritual and
intellectual enlightenment and enjoy liberty, a gift of God. The spirit guides
the intellect.
Benjamin Franklin stated…." I think with you, that nothing is
of more importance for the public weal, than to form and train up youth in
WISDOM AND VIRTUE. Wise and good men are, in my opinion, the strength of the
state; more so than riches or arms… I think also, that general virtue is more
probable to be expected and obtained from the education of youth, than from the
exhortations of adult persons; bad habits and vices of the mind being, like
diseases of the body, more easily prevented in youth, than cured in adults. I
think, moreover, that talents for the education of youth are
the gift of God."
In 1828, Noah Webster published his "American Dictionary of
the English Language." He knew a people’s character and ethics would be formed
by how they interpreted words. Conscience comes in conflict with a man’s natural
nature. His choices originate with his discipline to the one or succumbing to
the other. Given the opportunity to be free from the restraints of conscience by
relegating out of his thought process, words that arouse conscience, he would
become a being without moral restraint. Mr. Webster’s Dictionary interpreted
words to a point conscience would have the upper hand in the make up of
character. For instance, ethics was defined as follows…"The Doctrines of
Morality or Social manners." The American Heritage dictionary circa 1980 defines
ethics…"A principle of right or good character". No connection to morality or
any other foundational word. A copy of Noah Webster’s original 1828 dictionary
can be obtained from…The Foundation for American Christian Education, P.O.Box
9444, Chesapeake, VA 23321-9444
Henry Grady Weaver, the author of "The Mainspring of Human
Progress" writes…
The enemies of freedom are on the march. Their major attack is
not on the battlefield. It is in the fifth-column technique of skillfully boring
from with in – a program of infiltration and attrition.
The principal secret weapon is traceable to Lenin, who
allegedly instructed his followers to first confuse the vocabulary. Lenin was
smart. He knew that thinking can only be done in words and that accurate
thinking requires words of precise meaning. Confuse the vocabulary and the
unsuspecting are at a disadvantage when defending themselves against the small
but highly disciplined minority which knows exactly what it wants and
deliberately promotes word-confusion as the first step in its efforts to divide
and conquer.
Lenin was an able strategist, and his instructions have borne
fruit. There are evidences of it on every side. The result is the communication
of logical thought has become increasingly difficult, until today we are living
in a world of sugar-coated fallacies, cliches, false meanings, and double talk.
Consider Clinton’s definition of the word "is" and Bush’s
definition of "truth."
In 1831, Alexis De Tocqueville, when he visited the U.S. from
France, made the following observations about education and the educated in
America…."The observer who is desirous of forming an opinion on the state of
instruction among the Anglo-Americans must consider the same object from two
different points of view. If he singles out only the learned, he will be
astonished as to how few they are: but if he counts the
ignorant, the American people will appear to be the most
enlightened in the world…"
Of the pioneers he said…"everything about him is primitive and
wild, but he is himself the results of the labor and experience of EIGHTEEN
CENTURIES."
He went on to say such things as …"it cannot be doubted that
in the U.S. the instruction of the people powerfully contributes to the support
of the Republic; and such must always be the case, I believe, where the
instruction which enlightens the UNDERSTANDING IS NOT SEPERATED FROM THE MORAL
EDUCATION…." From Democracy in America…Alexis De Tocqueville
These five points were taught in schools. They gave
recognition to the concept of separation of church and state, NOT GOD AND
COUNTRY which is the objective of the RELIGIOUS FANATICS making up the
Socialist/Humanist Command Class that have wrested control of America.
1- There exists a Creator who made all things, and mankind
should recognize and
worship Him.
2- The Creator has revealed a moral code of behavior for happy
living which
distinguishes right from wrong.
3- The Creator holds mankind responsible for the way they
treat each other.
4- All mankind live beyond this life.
5- In the next life mankind is judged for its conduct in this
life.
This is not offensive to anyone except the Humanist man gods
in control of government, hell bent on making the State the Church (source);
replacing God as the Source
In the 1850’s the Pedagogue Horace Mann came on the scene. He
was the person who orchestrated the idea that it was the government’s obligation
to "teach" the children. He got some sympathetic ears in government to go along
with him and government schools, for the first time, came on the American scene
(they’re not public schools in that even people who attend private schools are
part of the public). In Massachusetts, I believe, parents were so outraged by
the law forcing them to send their children to government schools; they had to
call out the National Guard to force them to comply.
Mann is the one who can be "credited" with
redefining America as a Democracy instead of a Republic. Not to get off track,
but people have not been taught the difference between a DEMOCRACY and the
DEMOCRATIC PROCESS as not knowing, fits the Socialist agenda. A Democracy
consists of man gods (self-right people who see their will and appetite as the
definition of right). One example would be a lynch mob; might makes right, or
two sheep and a wolf voting on what’s for lunch. It isn’t necessarily numbers;
it’s who holds the reins of power. The Democratic process however can be used by
right thinking people or self- right thinking people to pick their
representatives. One picks the most qualified leader to function UNDER THE LAW
while the other, picks the worst amongst them to be the SOURCE OF THE LAW a
TYRANT. Karl Marx, who entered the pages of history at the same time as Mann
stated "We must win the battle of Democracy", not Communism. He also said "The
first thing necessary to control a people is to separate them from their
heritage."
Mann and Marx’s ideas started to take hold. The "new american
leader," a person with much intellect but void of moral restraint; by promising
us things we were and are not entitled to, like the fruits of another mans
labor, was starting to gain more and more power. At the turn of the century
pedagogues like Dewey, Chase, Pierce etc. came on the scene of history. The
teaching of the three "R’s" gave way to Progessive Education (Indoctrination).
Charles Pierce stated…"the universe as a whole is open-ended (Godless)…If there
is no fixed nature (absolutes) of anything or any enduring order, then it must
be possible to reshape man and the world about us ACCORDING TO OUR WILLS. Dewey
called for "MODIFICATION’ of traditional ideals of culture, traditional subjects
of study and traditional methods of teaching and discipline ("spare the rod and
spoil the child"…teaching Biblical principles and ethics, they must all go)…the
schools will surely …share in the building of the social order of the
future…they will of necessity …take an active part in determining the social
order." Stuart Chase stated…"Should the Russians (communist) have all the FUN in
remaking the world." Progressive Indoctrination" has as its goal the creation of
a being that is an animal in human form, willing to accept leadership like
Lenin, Stalin, Clinton, Bush etc. It should be noted, Dewey taught at Columbia
University around the turn of the last century. He often bragged that he had
"taught" over 35,000 students to become teachers (clones) to his philosophy.
Needless to say, knowing no better they went out and taught what they had been
taught. America, being the only country in the history of the world conceived in
liberty, its citizens were resistant to the ideas conceived in hell of Dewey et
al.. Their ideas were like a slow cancer, sometimes in remission, sometimes,
like under FDR’s and most of the administrations since, spreading like wildfire.
You judge for yourself how far we have come. Pierce, Chase and others enamored
with the godless socio-evolutuionary religion that is made up of the teachings
of Marx and Darwin, they were doing the same thing as Dewey. Mankind did not
stand above his environment as a Steward possessed with reason and charged by
God, he was a part of it, (a more "intelligent" beast). However, as Dewey and
his ilk see it, some beasts (themselves) they are more "intelligent" than
others. The lion would rule the lambs.
Another ingredient to accomplishing the objectives of
Socialist Planners is to take local and parental control of the schools away.
Here are some statistics outlining the success they have made:
In 1943 there were 109,000 school districts
In 1962 there were 62,000 school districts
In 1992 there were 15,000 school districts
In 1930 83% of government school funding came from the local
area.
In 1950 57% of government school funding came from the local
area.
In 1990 44% of government school funding came from the local
area.
Under Bush’s no child left behind plan, a Kennedy concept, the
federal government will and is taking total control. Parents will be paying for
it only the funds will have been taken from them by the Federal government using
coercive force, with a portion returned for their children’s indoctrination.
Couple the take over of the school districts by centralized
government and the power their partners in amoral indoctrination, the Socialist,
National Education Association (NEA) has over the type of person who can teach,
and use your own imagination as to what the next generation will be/is. You
don’t have to use your imagination any more.
There are teachers (indoctrinators) and TEACHERS (educators).
The former exist by the thousands; the latter are few and far between.
The term teacher is a self proclaimed label while TEACHER is a
title bestowed by others. The TEACHER is one who is in search of truth and to
whom, if he or she achieves enlightenment, others of us look for the truth he or
she perceives. The TEACHER is a seeker for that which he or she knows not; the
teacher is an indoctrinator attempting to
insinuate into the minds of others that which he or she
"knows." Bear in mind that learning is a taking from not injecting into process.
Every individual is in charge of their own doors of perception and admits only
that which they chose.
Louis L’ Amour said… "Up to a point a man’s life is shaped by
environment, heredity, and movements and change in the world about him; then
there comes a time it lies within his grasp to shape the clay of his life into
the sort of thing he wishes to be. Only the weak blame parents, their race,
their times, lack of good fortune, or the quirk of fate. Everyone has it within
his power to say, this I am today, that I shall be tomorrow. The wish however
must be implemented by deeds".
What must be done at the Federal level to improve education?
Start by severing the umbilical cord that exists between the Federal education
bureaucracy and schools and students by abolishing said federal bureaucracy.
Purely from a practical point, does it make sense to give those gluttons for
power and profit a $1.00 for education to get back $0.30 or $0.40 for the
indoctrination of our youth? That’s about what’s left after the Regulators take
their "fees." They are not a substitute for parents. They advocate murdering the
unborn. Adolescent girls getting an abortion without parental consent. Children
being given condoms instead of being taught moral values. Under the current
system of indoctrination, children are wards of the state to be raised according
to the value system that will make them accept the role of being productive
beasts of burden for the betterment of the state. The state is an opinion
functioning outside the bounds of the Constitution and in no way does it want
enlightened people walking around who might question that opinion.
Although I’ve mentioned this in other sections, it deserves
recognition under the Education title. SR or Stimulus Response is the latest
weapon thrust on us in the 20th century. Stimulus Response relates to
the function of the midbrain, that part of the brain that reacts to
circumstances in either a conscientious manner or a conditioned manner. It has
been incorporated into the training of soldiers since the Viet Nam police action
and now Iraqi police action to condition them to be able to kill at a rate four
times greater than the soldiers in the 2nd World War. Timothy
McVeigh’s behavior can be attributed to it. Basically it is the same process
that is used to train a pilot to react to an adverse set of circumstances in a
positive way without thinking, or a school child to react to a fire alarm, a
conditioned reflex if you will. In today’s halls of indoctrination, deviant or
horrific acts that would normally be rebuffed, they are being changed into
acceptable behavior. You’ve probably all heard about the banana and latex
"training" going on and the questions about deviant behavior that are worded as
if it was acceptable; asking if you participate in them. The inference is, if
you don’t, why not? If you’ve seen the movie "The Manchurian Candidate" it is a
prime example of the "education" your children are getting in government
schools. Maybe not as assassins but other behavior contrary to every value a
nation professing to be "One Nation under God" would consider to be a step
toward a higher intellectual and moral standard.
The book, "On Killing" by Lt. Col. Dave Grossman is a one of a
kind, exposing from a psychologist perspective, just what is going on in our
transition from the model for moral standards for the rest of the world to the
purveyor of deviant behavior. It is not a politically correct book. It is a
fully documented wake up call. Caution! It is not nice reading.
