Education or Indoctrination
By
de Andréa,
Opinion Editorialist for
‘THE BOTTOM LINE’
Do we really have an educational system in American public schools, or has it become a robotic social Indoctrinational brainwashing of ‘Godless National Marxism’? Moreover, is America really going through an ‘awakening?’ Turn around, look down the road, and see the future…
An education is one of the
few things that we can give ourselves and our children that will have a
lifelong and lasting effect. Although
most American families send their children—as they themselves were sent by
their own parents—to public schools, how often have we stopped to question the
goals of the so=called public educational system? All American’s, but Christian parents
especially, should be asking this question.
Are we truly concerned whether the goals for educating our children are the
same as the goals of the American public school system? You might want to ponder on that…
Proverbs 1:7 tells us “the
fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge” or in some versions “wisdom”. It should stand to reason that if “the
fear of the Lord” is the beginning of knowledge,
starting a quest for knowledge where God has been banned, will not yield
knowledge at all. While it may yield a
robotic program, we should be more than just recording machines absorbing
whatever the institution happens to be vomiting out... You might want to ponder on that as well! Man!
This is really, really, profound.
Revelation 21 describes the “new
heaven and the new earth” and the New Jerusalem. In verse 23-24 we read: “And the city has no need of the
sun or of the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God has illumined it, and
its lamp is the Lamb. The nations will
walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it.” Notice that the final chapter of the
final book of the final word of the infinite God, speaks of being illumined
by the light or glory of God. God
is at the beginning AND end of
understanding and learning. This should
be the goal of learning for everyone and should certainly be the goal of
education for the Christian. Note also
that the “kings of the earth” have a glory of their own, but they bring it into
(i.e. subject it to) God’s light.
We must remember that our mind is a gift from God and we are to think His
thoughts after Him.
The goal of education
then—for the Christian at least—is not necessarily just to acquire a plethora
of facts and knowledge, but it is in the end, to glorify God. Our minds are to be sacrificed in humble
dedication to the Creator, the One who made thought possible. “Do not be conformed (indoctrinated
or brainwashed) to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that
you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and
perfect” (Romans 12:2).
Rather than viewing education as a means to an
end—a better job, more money, higher social status, or better than you neighbor
at Trivial Pursuit, etc—we must view our education as a constant renewing of
our minds in order to better “think God’s thoughts after Him”. If the educational establishment where you or
your children are enrolled does not share this goal, then it should be cause to
rethink sending yourself or your children there to be “educated,” or
robotically programmed, as the case may be.
As Allan Bloom points out
below (and it has only gotten worse since he wrote these words in 1987), “every
educational system has a goal”. And
although he is primarily referring to universities in his book, the same holds
true at every level of education. As an
educator, and for most of his career, Bloom was known in academic circles
mainly for his translations of the philosophies of Rousseau and Plato. But the publication of The Closing of the American Mind in 1987 brought him fame
and fortune, praise and vilification. In
this best-seller, Bloom argued that cultural relativism threatened to extinguish the "real motive of education”… Read what he has to say…
“Every
educational system has a moral goal that it tries to attain and that informs
its curriculum. It wants to produce a
certain kind of human being. This
intention is more or less explicit, are more or less results of reflection; but
even the neutral subjects, like reading and writing and arithmetic, take their
place in a vision of the educated person.
In some nations the goal was the pious person, in others the warlike, in
others the industrious. Always important
is the political regime, which needs citizens who are in accord with its
fundamental principle. Aristocracies
want gentlemen, oligarchies men who respect and pursue money, and democracies
lovers of equality. Democratic
education, whether it admits it or not, wants and needs to produce men and
women who have the tastes, knowledge, and character supportive of a democratic
regime. Over the history of our
republic, there have obviously been changes of opinion as to what kind of man
is best for our regime… This education
has evolved in the last half-century from the education of democratic man to
the education of the democratic personality.
The
palpable difference between these two can easily be found in the changed
understanding of what it means to be an American. The old view was that, by recognizing and
accepting man’s natural rights, men found a fundamental basis of unity and
sameness. Class, race, religion,
national origin, or culture all disappear or become dim when bathed in the
light of natural rights, which give men common interests and make them truly
brothers. The immigrant had to put
behind him the claims of the Old World in favor
of a new and easily acquired education. This
did not necessarily mean abandoning old daily habits or religions, but it did
mean subordinating them to new principles.
There was a tendency, if not a necessity, to homogenize nature itself.”
This philosophy has been the
cornerstone of American history for more than 200 years. But now we face the threat of a Marxist as
well as an Islamic theocracy that unlike all other cultural origins doesn’t
homogenize itself into any other culture. It infiltrates and surreptitiously mutates the
host country’s civilization until it is replaced with the invading Ideology.
Bloom continues:
“The
recent education of openness has rejected all that. It pays no attention to natural rights or the
historical origins of our regime, which are now thought to have been
essentially flawed and regressive. It is
progressive and forward-looking. It does
not demand fundamental agreement or the abandonment of old or new beliefs in
favor of the natural ones. It is open to
all kinds of men, all kinds of life-styles, all ideologies. There is no enemy other than the man who is
not open to everything. But when there
are no shared goals or vision of the public good, is the social contract any
longer possible? “
Bloom’s question may sound
mostly rhetorical when asked today, because we have been conditioned for so
long that different beliefs should be celebrated rather than questioned, i.e.
the religion of Political-Correctness and Multi-Culturalism. In other words, the public indoctrinational system
is working. In 1970, Ivan Illich A half
Jewish Catholic priest with educational studies pointed out that we had
confused “going to school” with “getting an education,” and this confusion has
only gotten worse in the intervening 40 years.
Government education is accomplishing with amazing accuracy the very
goal that it has openly stated from its beginnings: a “socialized indoctrinated
public”. We are only now beginning to
see an awakening—possibly through the throngs of TEA-party demonstrators and
anti-Socialism campaigns—to a partial understanding of what socialization
actually means. Yet most of these same
protesters view socialism as only an economic program.
Bloom continues:
“Our
culture is being manipulated to worship the State. [Setting the stage for the Islamic agenda and or a Marxist State] We see the state as a god, with the right to
control everything which it chooses. The
State is being endowed with powers for controlling the destiny of its human
resources—the power of predestination. Our
culture teaches us to think of the State as having a natural right to control
the education of children for the sake of society, because, after all, the Democratic
State is the embodiment of society. Our
culture teaches us that the State has a compelling interest in its own
survival and success. Hence the State
must own the children, for the children are the future of the State. Though this doctrine is rarely stated in such
explicit terms, it is nevertheless the implicit declaration of virtually all
state programs. The State seeks to be
omniscient—to know everything about us. The
State seeks to be omnipresent—to be everything in society. The State seeks to be omnipotent—to control
everything in society. The State is the incarnation of the god of humanism. Man, through the State, has become the
measure of all things. The promise of this
enemy in the Garden of Eden is at last fulfilled in the Socialist State . Man is as a god, determining for himself what
good and evil is — measuring everything by his own invented and perverted grey standards,
apart from God.”
Now if one throws the curve
of Islam into the mix, the enemy in the Garden of Eden begins to
materialize. It should go without saying
that we should want less, not more, of this type of Marxist socialization or
Islamic Sharia for ourselves and our children.
Many otherwise well-intentioned Christians actually object to
alternatives to government education because they claim that their child will
not get enough “socialization,” or “multi-cultural
exposure.” I realize that when people
say that they want their children to be socialized at school, they do not mean,
they want them to be influenced by and taught Multi-Culturalism in the form of Communism,
Marxist socialism, or Islamic Jihad. But
this is beside the point, because that is exactly what is happening. Public, or social, education is one that
“aims to develop ‘man’ as a member of a social collective society and not as an
independent individual… The idea of
social education and social pedagogy [the art of teaching] in its most general form
was formulated by Immanuel Kant, a metaphysical philosopher in the mid 1700’s, who
in his lectures on pedagogy expressed among other things the following thought.
“Children
must be trained not for the present but for the future improvement of the human
race and in accordance with some conception of the destiny of mankind. And when that destiny of mankind is one that
self-consciously excludes the God of the Bible, we should just as self-consciously
reply ---I will not be attending.”
In reality, Americans have at least been
socialistically programmed for decades. When Americans for example, claim that they want
nothing to do with President Obama’s Muslim or Communistic social agenda, they
seem to be oblivious to the fact that at least this dependant socialistic
agenda has been ongoing since before the Great Depression of the 1930’s. Every president since FDR has followed his
lead of involving the government in more and more areas where it constitutionally
does not belong; some to greater, some to lesser degrees.
Education is always in the
forefront of government time, money, and resources, being directed at it. And for all of the attention it has been
given, the positive results have steadily decreased in nearly direct proportion
to the amount of money being funneled into it.
This is only to be expected because Islam and Marxist Socialism is
primarily about government control—of everything—not about getting your monies
worth or more dollars out of your wallet.
Getting your money is the easy part.
‘The last thing the state needs
is your money; the first thing it needs is your mind and you soul, and more
importantly the minds and souls of your children’.
Allen Bloom’s quotation above
should not be forgotten when the topic of education is discussed. He says, “Every educational system has a moral goal
that it tries to attain and that informs its curriculum.” That is, education is designed to fulfill a
need; it is designed to meet the needs of changing opinions “as to what kind of
citizen, comrade, or oppressed follower is best for our regime.” Those who openly display opposition to the
current program of “European-style socialism” or the multi-cultural attitude
towards Islam being imposed on the American people are often befuddled as to
why their own children don’t seem to be bothered by it. They blame everything from video games to the
media, but they will seldom confront the thousand pound gorilla of government
education. Our country thinks the way it
does because of how it has been programmed.
This should come as no great shock, but somehow it is always viewed as
“controversial.” There is really nothing
controversial about it; the real controversy is why we aren’t doing anything to
stop it. We have allowed Islam and Marxist
socialists to not only take over the public education system, but we have
actually given them the funds with which to do it. We have literally paid the Muslims and Communists
(and paid them quite well in fact) to enable their evil agenda of Sharia and social
programming and what’s worse, the subversion of our own children.
Did you know that Federal control
of the American educational system is in direct violation of U.S. Constitutional
law? Of course you didn’t, because you
have been programmed to accept it. No!
There is nothing in the U.S. Constitution that allows the Federal
Government to have a Department of Education; it should therefore be abolished. Moreover, as the Tenth Amendment restates the Constitution's
principle of federalism rather than nationalism by providing that powers not
granted to the central government nor prohibited to the states by the
Constitution of the United
States be reserved to the states or the
people.
It is written as follows: “The powers not delegated to the United States
by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the
States respectively, or to the people”
This is why education is such
an important subject for Americans, especially Christian Americans to be
considering. (Perhaps the most
important) If it is true that “the
fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge,” and or wisdom, and it
is true that modern State-run education is purposefully teaching with the abolition of God, then it logically follows that
government education is deliberately creating programmed robots and ignorance
among the masses. It comes down to a
simple declaration of allegiance: either we believe God and are for Him, or we
don’t believe God and we are against Him. There is no middle ground. A friend once said, “If you insist on being in the
middle of the road, you will eventually be run over.” He is a pastor and a ‘truck driver’; he knows what he is talking about.
If Proverbs teaches this
simple truth that knowledge can only begin when one clearly
understands that “the Lord reigns,” it should come as no surprise that
eliminating the reigning Lord from education will end in futility (read Psalm
2). This is not to say that modern
education has not successfully attained its humanistic goals, because it most
certainly has. But it has done this by
substituting one Sovereign for another: the State in place of God. By doing this it shows that it believes
wholeheartedly in the idea, but not the Source of the idea.
Which leads to the very difficult question begging to
be asked: Why are Americans only now
getting hot under the collar about this “socialistic agenda?” Why did it take the recent financial mess and
the election of a Communist Muslim to the White House, to awaken people from
their socialistic anti-American slumber, when this educational mess has been
public knowledge for more than 50 years?
Why are we more concerned about losing our money than we are about
losing our country, or more importantly our children?
This is the real issue.
We pride ourselves on our
advances, even when those advances are stifling any long-term benefits for
short-term gains. Unless we really want
future generations of Americans to be full-fledged, card-carrying Marxist Socialists,
or worse Islamic terrorists, we must admit that the system is not working for
us - but against us. Like an alcoholic,
we must first admit that we have a problem before we can begin dealing
with it. In other words identify who the
enemy is.
When Dorothy Sayers the
English Novelist wrote in her essay, (“The Lost
Tools of Learning“), she spoke of
the “true object,” she is referring to teaching students how to think, rather than what
to think. While this is definitely a
concern, the real “true object” is the Christ of the Scriptures. It matters little if we teach an entire
generation of children how to think, if we fail to give them the Truth as the
solid foundation. Knowing how to think
with false knowledge is really no better than being told what to think. As I
learned from my Pastor, It took forty years of desert wandering and the loss of
an entire generation to clear the Israelites’ minds and souls of the slave
mentality they were taught in generations of Egyptian bondage. We didn’t get into our slavery of Communist Socialism
or the oppression of Islamic Sharia overnight, and we won’t quickly
get out of it either. A generational
plan must be instituted now - to begin the “exodus” process. That plan begins with education and it must
have Proverbs 1:7 written in permanent marker across the top of this page of
history.
THE BOTTOM LINE: I had the privilege of attending a Christian grade
school 1-8. I attended a public High
School and College. My son did the
same. Because of my memory of public
education, I de-briefed and de-programmed my son when I could, at the end of
every school day as he attended public school. I am not sure that this would be adequate for
today’s government social propaganda indoctrinational institutions, otherwise
known as Americans public school system. If however, a public education were the only
choice for ones children, then I would strongly recommend doing the same. However you might find that undoing each day the
damage, which has taken the better part of a day to inflict by a public indoctrinational
institution, may be no simple task.
Another choice to consider
might be homeschooling at least K-8. If
that is a possible choice, then be sure it has the oversight of a State
accredited Christian school. In some
states if the rules aren’t followed to the letter, parents could be brought up
on charges of truancy and or child neglect or endangerment and the possibility
of having their children physically removed from the home.
I shudder to think what America might look like in another generation or
two when America ’s
children graduate with all these degrees from all these government indoctrinational
institutions, robotically programmed with an anti-American Islamic and or
Marxist philosophy and a false ideology of what the American identity really
is.
Don’t be fooled for example, by
the religion of Al Gore’s “Global Warming”, it is just another means of robotic
control. Whether one naively believes that
it is true, or well read enough to know that it is not, is irrelevant. It is the motive, purpose and agenda that is
important. Its agenda is to accomplish
nothing but to strengthen ones dependence on a central government that is rapidly
becoming The National Socialist Republic of America, or possibly just another
Islamic State, or even a combination of both.
Take an interest in what your
children are being taught… do the research, and take part in their education.
Remember…government doesn’t
take rights away from us as much as we simply give them up!
My Dad one said regarding
ones rights, “Use ‘em or lose ‘em”
May, God bless you and may
His blessings awaken the contented slumber of the ‘real, United States of
America’…
Thanks
for listening
-
de Andréa
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