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To: Alberta's Child

No I didn’t.
I merely corrected your point that commies infiltrated us after WWI. Were you inferring that Wilson was a commie? If so, why didn’t you say so?

Back then in the late-40s and 50s-on, America didn’t have the ability to educate all the post-war Boomer children, in one-room schools, where learning was marginal, at best.

My Dear, Departed Dad and Mom were both educated in the 20s & 30s in one-room schoolhouses, and they both said it was chaotic, at times, with 3-4 grades being taught.

Dad went on to become a Chemical Engineer after Army Service in the Battle of The Bulge in WWII, and Mom was an RN during WWII. They turned out just fine, despite the educational conditions in those early years.


30 posted on 12/13/2021 9:09:03 AM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: carriage_hill
I don’t know where Woodrow Wilson came from. I never mentioned him and I have no idea why you’d bring him up.

I use the World War I time frame because that was the period when the statist, totalitarian ideas from Europe — notably those from the period when the Prussian states were unified under Bismarck in the 19th century — began to proliferate here in the U.S. Public education captured the essence of this totalitarian mindset, for it was an explicit acknowledgement that the state should usurp the role of parents and families in the upbringing of children. Once you accept that premise, you’ve voluntarily boarded that slave ship and there’s no going back.

Your story about one-room schoolhouses in the 1920s and 1930s makes my point perfectly. What parents in their right mind would ever hand over their children to strangers who would oversee them in a place where it was often chaotic and the children were supposed to be learning in groups that had no business being taught together? I’ll tell you who would: good, docile, compliant communists who did whatever the State told them to do.

In that regard, hardly anything has changed in the last 80-90 years at all.

36 posted on 12/13/2021 9:33:16 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("All lies and jest; still, a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.")
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