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October 29, 2009

Bringing About the Josiah Moment in American Awareness

Undoing statist academia and remembering our roots

 

 

Do we need deprogrammers to undo the lies, propaganda, and indoctrination a lot of people were victims of by attending public schools? The ignorance about this great country and its founding and exceptionalism is breathtaking. Part of the idea of free speech was that government would not control dissemination of crucial information, because doing so gave the government far too much power. As George Washington once said, a tyrant’s goal is to lead the “dumb and silent” away “like sheep to the slaughter”.

 

It's time we un-do the ignorance imposed on a generation by government schools. Government should never be the controller of information, nor even an unaccountable co-equal purveyor, because that power will invariably be used to serve the government's own interest, which is greater power at the expense of Liberty. George Washington and countless other of our Founding Fathers warned against the government monopoly of power through a lock on information, which is partly why he and others so strongly supported our First Amendment - that information should be under the control of the people, free from self-serving government fetters.  

 

The federal government acting outside its Constitutional role and accountability for local government acting within its appropriate role are the two key issues here. Should we abolish public schools in favor of a 100% tax credit-driven system in which parents would send their children to the schools of their choice? It could certainly be discussed at length and I certainly support some form of voucher system at least concurrent with a public school system. But that’s not as important as whether government, which is eternally self-serving (and more so the farther away it is from those it governs), will be the primary source of the information your child uses at an age that statistically tends to leave the most lasting impressions he will develop of the world around him.

 

One way we can obviously limit the extent to such abuse of our children is through ensuring control of those schools be local. In this way, communities will have the toolbox they need to force school officials to be transparent and accountable, which in turn will reduce counter-value un-American statist textbook indoctrination (or that by the occasional nutter teacher), increase the number of students who actually receive a quality education and become thinking contributors rather than leaches and sheep in society, and certainly curtail the type of PC inanity that leads to known criminals being permitted to stalk the halls of schools while Boy Scouts receive month-long suspensions for carrying sporks. Indeed, in an accountable, meritocratic school, Boy Scouts should be given special privileges based on their proven character, quality teachers should receive raises and bonuses, while gang members are expelled and lazy, incompetent teachers fired and blackballed.

 

But again, the first step is waking up and educating a large swath of the public, which through no fault of its own was lied to and kept in the dark by public school curricula both in K-12 and in college that deprived them of the knowledge of who they are as Americans. Once armed with this knowledge, they will be better prepared to fight for it in defense of their own children.

 

 

Posted by Martin at October 29, 2009 09:56 PM

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