HOW
PUBLIC SCHOOL SOCIALISTS BRAINWASH CHILDREN & DESTROY
AMERICA
By
Joel Turtel
November
18, 2006
NewsWithViews.com
One reason
public schools get away with educational failure, year after year,
is because they are run by left-leaning politicians and school
officials who passionately believe that government should control
your children's mind, values, and future. As the great English
writer C. S. Lewis wrote, "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny
sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most
oppressive. Those who torment us for our own good will torment us
without end, for they do so with the approval of their own
conscience."
Public-school
socialist true-believers often fall into this category --- for
over a 150 years, education "progressive" so-called
experts have been tormenting our children with public schools,
allegedly for our children's benefit. Like all fascist, socialist,
or communist true-believers, these people absolutely believe that
they know what is best for your children, and seek to ram their
beliefs down parents' throats.
From the
1840s to the
1930s, public-school "progressive" activists like
Horace Mann and John Dewey worked to create a public-school
system like the one they admired in Prussia (Germany). Mann and
Dewey considered public education a religion, with a holy
mission to mold children and society. Simply teaching children
to read, write, and do math was too commonplace a goal for them.
Mann and Dewey wanted the schools to have total control over
children's lives. This meant removing parents' influence over
their children. Mann put it this way: "We who are engaged
in the sacred cause of education are entitled to look upon all
parents as having given hostages to our cause."
Dewey had a
socialist utopian vision for America and he wanted the common
schools to achieve his vision. To create a government-dominated
socialist America, public schools had to mold generations of
children into the habit of obedience. In his "Pedagogic
Creed" of 1897, Dewey wrote, "Every teacher should
realize he is a social servant set apart for the maintenance of
the proper social order and the securing of the right social
growth. . ."
By the early
twentieth century, public schools had expanded their functions
into areas undreamed of in the 1850s. Schools took on the role
of social agencies, with nurses, social centers, playgrounds,
school showers, kindergartens, and "Americanization"
programs for immigrants. Public schools became a major agency
for social control.
Unfortunately,
today's public schools are fulfilling Mann's and Dewey's
"government- knows-best" vision with a vengeance.
There is hardly any area of children's lives that school
authorities now don't push to control. Politicians and
public-school apologists in many states are now pushing
programs that
would make kindergarten compulsory. Yes, they now want to
literally take 3 and 4-year old children from their mother's
arms and stick them in public-school nursery-classrooms.
Public
schools also now spend billions of dollars for psychological
counseling, school-lunch programs, mandatory drug-testing,
parent welfare-outreach programs, special-education classes,
bilingual classes, early-childhood programs, drug and sex
education classes, as well as programs for millions of
"at-risk" or "special-needs" children.
This
government-knows-best philosophy is the deepest reason why
public schools get away with educational murder and can
never be fixed. Public-school apologists believe that
government bureaucrats and school authorities should dictate
your children's education and the values they are taught. By
implication, they
believe that parents are an annoyance at best. More often,
they believe that parents are a danger to their children's
"proper" education and the values children
"ought" to be taught by government employees.
To turn
your children into dumbed-down, obedient little citizens and
multiculturalist "citizens of the world,"
public-school authorities have to keep an iron grip on your
children's minds and values. That is why public-school true
believers will never voluntarily give up control over our
children. They see themselves as noble idealists who know
what is "best" for your children. That is why
these socialist-fascist-minded "idealists" have
contempt for your parental rights.
In the
recent Congressional elections, the police-state chickens
are coming home to roost. The majority of 18 to 25
year-olds, graduates of our
socialist-indoctrinating public schools, voted for
Democrats. These are the children who spent 12 years in
public schools that systematically insult traditional
American ideals and values. These are the schools that
preach the multicultural trash that all cultures' values
are "equal," and that American values of
individual rights, economic liberty, and limited
government are "selfish" or arrogant.
Well,
our public-school "graduates" are now voters,
and their socialist-indoctrinated mind-set now attracts
them to Democrats like moths to a flame. God help this
country, because public schools turn out millions of
these child-adults who haven't the faintest conception
about the values this country was founded on, or have
little respect or contempt for those values.
Parents,
for your children's sake, walk away from the public
schools. Also, don't depend on vouchers or charter
schools, which are few and far between. Take control
of your children's education and the values you
teach them by homeschooling your kids or enrolling
them in a low-cost Internet private school of your
choice. Your children's future is at stake, and so
is, by the way, the future of our Republic and our
liberties.
© 2006 Joel Turtel
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Mr.
Turtel has written two books, published over
fifty articles, and has been interviewed in both
print and broadcast media on the subject. His
latest book, Public Schools, Public Menace has
garnered national media attention – recently,
for example, Dr. Laura Schlessinger featured the
book on her nationally
syndicated radio show.
Joel
Turtel is available to discuss his book Public
Schools, Public Menace in the media, at
conferences, or with individual groups. Be warned
though, you may be shocked by the revelations he
has uncovered in America's public-school system.
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