Since its inception, state education has always been about ownership of the child. Who has the right to take possession of a child's mind and determine his worldview? See what the educators have to say:
“We who are engaged in the sacred cause of education are entitled to look upon all parents as having given hostages to our cause.” --Horace Mann, (1796-1859) Father of American Public Education.
“The children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society which is coming, where everyone would be interdependent.” --John Dewey, (1859-1952) Father of Progressive Education, honorary president of the National Education Association, and co-author of the 1933 Humanist Manifesto.
“Only a system of state-controlled schools can be free to teach whatever the welfare of the state may demand.” Ellwood Cubberley, (1868-1941) dean of Stanford University’s School of Education
“Every child entering school at the age of five is mentally ill because he comes to school with certain allegiances to our founding fathers, toward our elected officials, toward his parents, toward a belief in a supernatural being, and toward the sovereignty of this nation as a separate entity. It’s up to you as teachers to make all these sick children well—by creating the international child of the future.” Dr. Chester M. Pierce, Harvard psychiatrist. From his keynote address at the 1973 Childhood International Education Seminar in Boulder, CO.
“Dramatic changes in the way we will raise our children in the year 2000 are indicated, particularly in terms of schooling…We will need to recognize that the so-called “basic skills” which currently represent nearly the total effort in elementary schools, will be taught in one-quarter of the present school day…When this happens—and it’s near—the teacher can rise to his true calling. More than a dispenser of information, the teacher will be a conveyor of values, a philosopher…We will be agents of change.” NEA President Catherine Barrett, 1973.
“I am convinced that the battles for humankind’s future must be waged and won in the public school classroom by teachers that correctly perceive their role as proselytizers of a new faith…The classroom must and will become an arena of conflict between the old and new—the rotting corpse of Christianity, together with all its adjacent evils and misery, and the new faith of humanism, resplendent with the promise of a world in which the never-realized Christian ideal of “love thy neighbor” will finally be achieved.” John Dunphy, in The Humanist, 1983.
“The techniques of brainwashing developed in totalitarian countries are routinely used in psychological conditioning programs imposed on American school children. These include emotional shock and desensitization, psychological isolation from sources of support, stripping away defenses, manipulative cross-examination of the individual’s underlying moral values, and inducing acceptance of alternative values by psychological rather than rational means.” Thomas Sowell, “Indoctrinating the Children” published in Forbes Magazine, 1993.
Fundamental, Bible believing people do not have the right to indoctrinate their children in their religious beliefs because we, the state, are preparing them for the year 2000, when America will be part of a one-world global society and their children will not fit in.” Peter Hoagland (1941-2007) U.S. Representative 2nd district in Nebraska
Where are your children today?
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