Posted on 07/02/2010 7:53:33 AM PDT by bs9021
Post-Graduate Homeschooling
Malcolm A. Kline, July 2, 2010
One of the signs of the increasing popularity of homeschooling is the growing number of Americans who avail themselves of it after graduation. It’s also a sign of the endemic failures of public education today.
“Look at the best sellers today,” bestselling author David Barton said in an interview with the July 2010 AFA Journal. “They are things like David McCullough’s book John Adams.”
“Americans are willing to pay money to learn what they were supposed to learn in school. All the information in that book used to be in the textbooks.”
One of Barton’s own histories is currently in the Amazon top 20, a list he is no stranger to. A key element missing in most texts, Barton alleges, is the role of religion in America’s founding.
“For instance, out of the 56 signers of the Declaration, textbooks will only mention Jefferson and Franklin,” Barton observes. “They will point out the least religious and say all the Founding Fathers were like those two.”
“That’s the exception, not the rule.” Yet, even here, the authors and publishers of history texts fail their own rule of thumb, Barton indicates.
“Jefferson, when you go by his actions, was absolutely pro-Christian his entire life,” Barton argues. “He started church services at the U.S. Capitol in 1800.” ...
(Excerpt) Read more at academia.org ...
When this is all over (including the coming CW2), David Barton will emerge as one of the people who helped restore the Constitution.
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