Study Shows Secularist Public Schools Indoctrinate Even Christian Kids

Agape Press ^ | 11/23/04 | Jim Brown and Jenni Parker

[aberaussie]

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[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

I am amazed and appalled at the everyday subtle influences of evolutionary and Marxist teaching....I try to find them and point them out....very PC-incorrect! I was at my brother's house the other day and saw his dogs. The thought ran through my head about 'their wild undomesticated predecessors.' That wasn't exactly a Genesis Chapter 1 thought--nor scientific. I caught myself. Do most kids have the knowledge to identify cognitive dissonance these days? Only the kids of any Republican psychologists and group therapists in Florida whose parents are making book on DepressedoCrats there.... (wry grin)

[Aquinasfan]

The thought ran through my head about 'their wild undomesticated predecessors.' That wasn't exactly a Genesis Chapter 1 thought--nor scientific. I caught myself.

I spent my twenties sorting stuff out, undoing the damage of 17 years of schooling. I have had the same experience, turning around to look at my thoughts thinking, "where did that come from?" In fact, for me, my assumption that evolution is a scientific fact was the last to go.

Do most kids have the knowledge to identify cognitive dissonance these days?

Absolutely not, which is the cruelest fate of all. You have to learn and be trained to mistrust your instincts. Modern schooling is the triumph of behavioral conditioning.

[Aquinasfan]

If the schools can't teach kids how to read and do math, how are they so succesful in turning them into socialists

Math must be understood to be learned. Dogma can be learned without understanding. That's why young adults become more conservative as they get older. Their experience in the real world contradicts what they learned in school. Some will cling to school dogma uncritically, because a change in worldview would involve pain. Others will reject what they were taught.

The mechanism of modern schooling is diabolically ingenious. The most powerful lessons of schooling are absorbed rather than learned. They are the lessons of context. The following essay summarizes the method brilliantly.

The Seven Lesson Schoolteacher

Also worth reading: The Underground History of American Education

[Aquinasfan]

The moronic secular humanism of the NEA which casts a shadow over most of the education in this country should be ended. And that can be ended with school choice for EVERYONE.

I agree. This is the second most important public policy issue, next to abolishing abortion, although the establishment of a voucher system will also help to end abortion.

[Aquinasfan]

Here's a working link: The Seven Lesson Schoolteacher

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

The original irrational fears behind the public school movement were that foreign-born Catholic immigrants posed some kind of menace to American democracy. Considering that most Catholics who actually go to Mass and believe in church teachings voted for Bush, that should really put to rest any lingering silliness and bigotry. There is no evidence that school choice poses any dangers to our constitutional system and the healthy functioning of the Republic. QUITE the opposite is actually the case.