Posted on 11/27/2014 7:55:59 AM PST by PROCON
On March 6, 1799, President John Adams issued a proclamation “Recommending a National Day of Humiliation, Fasting and Prayer”--for “thanksgiving to the Author of All Good.”
Among the things Adams wished Americans would ask God on this day was to make American schools teach not only sound science but also sound morals and religion.
Americans, Adams said, should ask God to “smile on our colleges, academies, schools, and seminaries of learning, and make them nurseries of sound science, morals, and religion.”
(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...
John Adams on Thanksgiving: Ask God to Make Our Schools ‘Nurseries of Sound Science, Morals and Religion’
And now:
Sound science: man-made global warming is real/settled science.
Morals"Don't judge me you Christian bigot!"
Religion: ALL religions are equal but islam is more equal.
It ain't my daddy's America.
My daughter goes to a great school.
Her teacher is awesome. Her coursework would make the Core Curriculum crowd cringe.
I never worry about what kind of indoctrination they’re going to push next.
Michele Obama has no say whatsoever in what foods are served.
I would recommend my daughter’s school model to everyone.
She’s home schooled.
Good on you FRiend, Happy Thanksgiving!
BTW, is your Thanksgiving meal Moochelle approved?
If you were to examine him in English and French poetry, I know not where you would find anybody his superior... He has translated Virgil's Aeneid... the whole of Sallust and Tacitus' Agricola... a great part of Horace, some of Ovid, and some of Caesar's Commentaries... besides Tully's [Cicero's] Orations...In Greek his progress has not been equal; yet has he studied morsels of Aristotle's Politics, in Plutarch's Lives, and Lucian's Dialogues, The Choice of Hercules in Xenophon, and lately he has gone through several books in Homer's Iliad.
In mathematics I hope he will pass muster. In the course of the last year... I have spent my evenings with him. We went with some accuracy through the geometry of the Preceptor, the eight books of Simpson's Euclid in Latin,.. We went through plane geometry... algebra, and the decimal fractions, arithmetical and geometrical proportions... I then attempted a sublime flight and endeavored to give him some idea of the differential method of calculations...[and] Sir Isaac Newton; but alas, it is thirty years since I thought of mathematics.
Letter from John Adams to Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse, former tutor to John Quincy Adams, pp. 324-325
-PJ
So sad that John Quincy was slacking off in Greek and Math.
Home schooled my twins K-12. Daughter is in college, son joined the Marines. “It’s the only way to fly.”
this years “National Day of Humiliation,” was held November Fourth....and only applied to Democracks
(the long march…)
The Italian Communist Antonio Gramsci drew a distinction between what he called a “war of manoeuvre” and a “war of position.” The war of manoeuvre was the Stalinist model. One simply used political violence to achieve one’s ends. But Gramsci thought this would not work in the more highly developed Western countries. For these countries, he recommended a war of position. A war of position is one in which one first identifies “switch-points of social power” and then one seeks to peacefully take control of those switch-points. The switch-points all relate to the field of cultural values – in particular, the arts and education. The most important switch-points of power are positions like school principal, university professor, government policy maker, education department bureaucrat and journalist.
We need to take a switch to all these turkey$#!+ "switch-pointers."
All of our Founders were very interested in transmitting the education they had received to all generations of Americans. About fifty percent of them graduated from college with a degree in philosophy and the capstone of their education were their classes in moral philosophy. They were trained specifically in ethics and virtue because they were educating for good preachers and good judges.
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