Posted on 02/07/2005 3:46:06 AM PST by DaveTesla
The Humanist Mission of Our Schools.
I think the most important factor leading us to a
secular society has been the educational factor. Our
schools may not teach Johnny to read properly, but the
fact that Johnny is in school until he is 16 tends to
lead toward the elimination of religious superstition.
The average child now acquires a high school education,
and this militates against Adam and Eve and all other
myths of alleged history.
Humanist writer Paul Blanshard.
Extending State Control.
Humanists know that the future of our country rests
with our children. Therefore, in order to control the
future of our country, they must control the minds of
our children. And the easiest way to control our
children is to control the schools.
Radical left-wing writers, including Alexander Cockburn
and James Ridgeway, incessantly rail against
parental "interference" in schools, because, as they
openly acknowledge, "The Left can't survive politically
without a public school system to spread leftist
attitudes."[3]
The New Curriculum.
The future of any nation lies with its youth. So
corrupt them; since religion teaches moral virtue,
erode the churches and divert the young from religion.
Make them interested only in themselves. Get them
involved in drugs, alcohol, and sex. Get them addicted
to privileges and rights.
Vladimir Lenin's "Rule for Revolution" #1.
"Reading, writing and arithmetic" no longer figure
prominently in today's exotic public school curricula.
Children who attend public school will be compelled to
learn the following;
• that homosexuality is a perfectly acceptable
alternative lifestyle;
.....SNIP......
C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man.
(Excerpt) Read more at prolife.ath.cx:8000 ...
I wasn't going to say a word. :-)
Thanks.
Rats, forgot it again:)) (I have a double chin).
As Goebbels said, “If you tell a lie big enough and long enough eventually people will believe it.” Both the cultivation of hatreds and lying as policy, therefore, have been adopted consciously or unconsciously by left wing movements all over the world. In the midst of promoting tolerance and truth in America, the left is really engaged in cultivating hatreds--class warfare--and in employing half-truths and lies as tools to achieve leftist goals. One can see it this in action almost every day in the pronouncements of liberal activists, educators, and politicians. They always play “fast and loose” with the truth. After all the contemporary leftist academic world denies that “truth” even exists.
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3981afe7645b.htm
In a mere three centuries, America has written some of the most glowing chapters in the long history of man’s struggle for freedom.
So how did we become—in the space of only a few generations—a nation of pathetic bed-wetters, mewling “Oh, please don’t trust me and my neighbor to save for our own retirements; we might blow it”—“Oh, please don’t trust me and my neighbor to own military-style weapons; we’d probably shoot each other.”
John Taylor Gatto, a former New York state (public) Teacher of the Year, thinks he’s found the answer: the government schools.
Gatto’s thesis is one of those “big ideas” that takes a little time to wrap the mind around. The public schools cannot be reformed because they’re not failing, he argues. They’re succeeding beyond all expectations at precisely what they’re supposed to be—not only a huge make-work jobs program, but also the incubators of a dependent class of conscienceless sociopaths, their emotional development purposely stunted, a generation (by now two or three) with little knowledge of “the narrative of American history connecting the arguments of the founding fathers to historical events, defining what makes Americans different from others besides wealth.”
Oblivious to that heritage, our young people instead sulk about, whining for the modern Morlocks of our welfare/police state to do a better job feeding them and keeping them entertained.
Gatto started to develop this thesis in his slim but estimable 1992 volume “Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling.” Now he’s returned with a massive and far better-developed follow-up, the 400-page “Underground History of American Education,” subtitled “A Schoolteacher’s Intimate Investigation Into the Problem of Modern Schooling” ($34 postpaid, Oxford Village Press, 725 McDonough Road, Oxford, N.Y. 13830.)
"When you call those who disagree with you homosexuals and you use arguments like the above, you show your true colors."
Can you refer me to the post where I called you a homosexual?
Out here in the state of Confusion (CA), that's a firing offense...
Why would anyone continue to work in a place like that?
Sure can: post 187. It's a old tactic used by the desperate.
Also, in post 170 you said:
could you point out where I said kids should confront homosexuals?
and I pointed that out as well in post 172.
Which are you going to do first? Wipe that egg off your face or remove your foot from your mouth?
You play games and you're inconsistent. And you're still dodging the issue as demonstrated in post 194.
Great posts, DT.
You folks have done a tremendous job bashing and insulting teachers and the school system.
Have you done as much research and amassed the same links to information for the policies in the work place? Have you quit your jobs because your company has policies on harrasment like the schools do? You work from home right?
I'm not talking about companies that condone or embrace same sex benefits, just the liability issue that businesses, like school face if employees harrass or intimidate someone.
All businesses of any size have them you know for fear of being sued?
The question remains....what will your kids do when they encounter a homosexual? Will they go nuts and incur a liability to their employer because their parents couldn't face the fact that such people exist?
Don't ask me, I'm just the geologist...
In regards to children at school you asked a similar question in post 58. But when I asked you to provide an appropriate age for children to encounter or confront homosexuals at school you dodged the question, and you've been dodging the question every time I ask.
The question has always been: what age range were you thinking when you asked: When your kids do confront a homosexual what will their response be? Is it K-12 or some other less inclusive range? And if so, what range?
#87 I stated my observation with a question mark as I could be incorrect in that observation about your seemingly one sided posting. Only you know what that behavior is about.
#170 See the quote marks? Those are your words.
Why can't you own em?
not yet far enough to interfere with Dubya's re-election...or Reagan's for that matter.
Their doing well with their agenda.
Many parents defend public schools.
That's called back pedaling and misdirection. You're a piece of work.
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