OH SO VERY TRUE, dear sister in Christ! It was written some 50+ years ago. And I daresay it was prophetic....
And so I hereby "propose": There is no just rationale for "public" education in the first place. The federal Constitution doesn't even contemplate that. Therefore, abolish the Department of Education.
The DoE hasn't got any constitutional authority to "educate" anybody. Not even Congress has that power.
Since Jimmah Carter founded the so-called Department of Education, our national test scores have steadily plummeted, in the areas of mathematics and science especially, in comparison with those of competitor nations. Meanwhile, it's costing the federal taxpayer a fortune, each and every year. All to spread the most anti-social, irrational, and pernicious doctrines, designed to undermine civil society from within, from the get-go.
Or so it seems to me. Thanks for listening to my rant, dear sister in Christ!
And thank you ever so much for your kind words of support. Yes, it was about public education! And Lewis is glorious on this subject!
JMHO FWIW
Preach it, sister!!!!!
I recently read an article about how the costs for "educating" our students and yet they no longer are competitive with those of other countries spending far far less.
My son took his teenage daughters out of the school system this year, who are doing Cyber-Schooling. It's better but the criteria is still the same....but they at least believe they can counter that since the parents are directly involved with what's being taught as it's being taught. Thus far all their grades have been par excellant for they do not have the distractions etc. that floods the halls in the school system...and they were good students even then. Hopefully my family will give enough of the otherwise teaching to offset some of that from the school system. But I do question if this is even going to stop what's being stuffed into these kids.