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To: ClearCase_guy

In talking to students, I find they know nothing of our founding fathers other than they owned slaves. They never heard of Bastiat, they cannot identify our second president, they cannot explain the reason for the Declaration of Independence.

This is why Obama is so popular; because of their lack of education his people do not understand the economic and social dangers that he poses. They see profit from legal plunder and care not for its consequences.

Back to your point, any education should carry these materials; otherwise it’s not an education, it is an indoctrination.


5 posted on 10/03/2008 9:00:01 AM PDT by Loud Mime (Liberalism is a Socialist Disease)
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To: Loud Mime
In talking to students, I find they know nothing of our founding fathers other than they owned slaves. They never heard of Bastiat, they cannot identify our second president, they cannot explain the reason for the Declaration of Independence.

And sadly this is NO accident! They are being dumbed down by design in order to accommodate the socialist agenda currently in vogue!

9 posted on 10/03/2008 9:17:53 AM PDT by Bigun ("It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere." Voltaire)
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The purpose of public education is... "to manufacture an endless corps of sound Americans. A sound American is simply one who has put out of his mind all doubts and questionings, and who accepts instantly, and as incontrovertible gospel, the whole body of official doctrine of his day, whatever it may be and no matter how often it may change."

H.L. Mencken

10 posted on 10/03/2008 9:22:08 AM PDT by Bigun ("It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere." Voltaire)
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