End government schools.
We don’t need no education, we don’t need no thought control!
Schools under the thumb of NEA and AFSCME are more likely to hinder a child’s education than not.
Each, and all, of us, however, must find whatever means we can utilize to expose as many potential voters as we can reach with a glimpse of the “vision” America’s Founders had for this place on the globe.
Their vision was for a place were Creator-endowed human beings, reacting to the call of the Supreme Being in their own consciences, and being aware of what they called “natural law,” could live together with one another in “peace, liberty, and safety,” (Jefferson’s First Inaugural) under a system of self-government, whose elected “People’s” representatives would be “bound down by the chains of the Constitution” (Jefferson again) they framed and adopted in 1787.
Love and respect for their unprecedented work and sacrifices have motivated millions of America’s finest to join the founding generation in being willing to sacrifice their own “lives, property, and sacred honor” across these 200+ years.
Today, with the so-called “progressives,” there is no “vision” for liberty—only a utopian dream (in reality, a nightmare) of equality in misery under a political elite throughout the globe.
Here is an excerpt from a late-19th Century essay, which can be read at the Liberty Fund Library here.
“Freedom is the most valuable of all human possessions, next after life itself. It is more valuable, in a manner, than even health. No human agency can secure health; but good laws, justly administered, can and do secure freedom. Freedom, indeed, is almost the only thing that law can secure. Law cannot secure equality, nor can it secure prosperity. In the direction of equality, all that law can do is to secure fair play, which is equality of rights but is not equality of conditions. In the direction of prosperity, all that law can do is to keep the road open. That is the Quintessence of Individualism, and it may fairly challenge comparison with that Quintessence of Socialism we have been discussing. Socialism, disguise it how we may, is the negation of Freedom. That it is so, and that it is also a scheme not capable of producing even material comfort in exchange for the abnegations of Freedom, I think the foregoing considerations amply prove.” EDWARD STANLEY ROBERTSON
Today is the day in America when the battle of ideas between Freedom and Socialism must be engaged by competent, knowledgeable spokesmen and spokeswomen who are candidates.
That is why the topic of this thread is so very important to freedom lovers everywhere.
Paul Krugman, of Princeton, lost it a few decades ago.
We don’t need no education... /pink floyd
There’s already too much money in education. It doesn’t really take much to educate a child. Competent teachers, a few well-chosen books, a classroom and discipline are all that’s needed.
Yeh...wot passes for edu is indoctrination; real education is self-education w/o a piece of parchment.
But try to get to the head of the employment line w/o paying off the system!
Such is life in “this world”; meself, I’m a stranger hereabouts.
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The school funding crunch is mostly about unfundef pension. We’ve been kicking the can down the road for many years. We are getting to the end of the road.
This is a dnc organized movement. In Arizona the RedForED (redforElectDemocrats) got their 20% pay raise for teachers, but will still strike. It’s all about the elections. They are targeting the Governor, School Superintendent, Senate, etc. Using the standard, “it’s all for the children”.
Mass teacher walkouts apparently gave the Libs what they wanted in West Virginia and Oklahoma.
They are going to keep repeating the tactic until it stops working.
This is really about damaging Bevin to the point that he can’t beat McConnell in a primary.
When did Krugman move to Kentucky?