Maybe I'm just going to date myself as belonging back with the dinosaurs or something when I tell you this, but just think, I can still remember my first ride in an automobile. Before cars, we went by horse and buggy. The horse was very fuel-efficient but kind of slow. And if you wanted to supercharge one, you fed him an extra bag of oats...
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Office of the President Of the United States Barack TOTUS-Puppet Obama will NOT be taking any questions from the students next week.
He will be dictating to them to stay in school and possibly to work towards “greening” America through socialist-ecology programs that do nothing to impact the climate of the Earth. And he may program them to propandize to their parents about nationalized medicine.
I make this point based on the teachers’ courserwork from the Dept. of Edumacation.
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Below is an excerpt from a 1917 Report from the State Superintendent of Schools regarding the necessity of training young minds for citizenship and responsibility. Where would we find such a statement today?
Excerpted remarks of Dr. J. Y. Joyner, NC State Superintendent of Schools, which were included on Pages 82 and 83 of the 1917 Moore County Report of Public Schools.
“To make the world safe for democracy, after it is won for the world by war,* preparation of the rising generation of children through education for its privileges and its responsibilities and its preservation, is necessary. Preparedness for any great crisis or any great advance in civilization is not the creation of one generation, of hours, days or even of years, but of centuries and successive generations, through education. Herbert Spencer declared that the education of a child begins a hundred years before he is born. No man can measure the loss to civilization of one generation of education. It is simply irreparable—a missing link in an endless chain."
Dr. Joyner continued: “If the light is not kept burning in the schools for the enlightenment of the minds and souls of the children for the enlightenment of the world, great indeed will be the darkness that will come upon it. Fruitless indeed will be the victory of the world for light and freedom if the children are doomed to sit in darkness, for then the world will be doomed to sit in darkness in the age that follows. When the light of the world is obscured by clouds, the sources of light must be guarded all the more jealously that the light may shine again when the clouds have passed.”
He concluded: “I appeal to the people of North Carolina to see to it that there shall be no curtailment of support of the children’s schools, no deadly paralysis of interest, no failure to provide fully for the conservation of our intellectual and spiritual resources through adequate education.”
*Note: These remarks were made at the time of World War I
The ordinary citizens of the world still look to America as a "beacon of liberty."
That light, in order to burn brightly, will not emanate from political rhetoric, but from the hearts and minds of a people whose passion is for liberty--not government control.