The Learning Process

Deborah Venable

09/08/02

The demise of the greatest human culture that ever graced the face of the earth teeters on the brink of salvation as those who would see it fall are lighting the fires of hell beneath it, while those who know it is happening are throwing their weight to the side of sanity and trying to shore up that dangerous edge. Everything depends on stabilizing the “push you, pull me” influences of a decaying academic elite bent on defining the learning process. They would have us all believe that standardized education is the end all of human accomplishment, and that without it, the American Dream is dead. The truth, however, is that the learning process is as far removed from today’s notions of a proper education as it can possibly be. The secret of the success of America has always hinged on the ongoing process of human learning – not, as some would have us believe, on acquiring a “certified” education.

The successful home schooling explosion in this country has finally begun to turn some heads, but until we can uproot the briars of standardized education from around the tree of knowledge, the true American Culture will go unseen and be continually “choked” out. Home schooling offers the only avenue of instilling the learning process in those who would inherit a great culture. We had better see it in even greater numbers, and we had better act on it without delay. We do not want to backslide in the precarious effort to salvage America from the hell of ignorance that lies waiting if we do not put forth maximum effort to anchor the roots of her future in the fertile ground of true learning.

The subtle influences of seemingly benign suggestions planted in the minds of children thrown into a standardized education system have been the downfall of American society. Planned from the start, this downfall has caused every problem we now face with retaining our freedoms, and maintaining our spirits. We are in the final phase of this plan as confusion succeeds in masking the way out of our mess. Even those of us who see the problem clearly may have trouble defining a solution because we, too, were besieged with the subtleties at an early age. We have been badgered into believing that we must work within the system to affect change, but the system itself is unworkable. The way is simple – abandon the system. Children are not to be turned over to official evaluation, influence, and education. Children should receive their nurturing at home, not at the feet of paid programmers.

As parents continue to look elsewhere for the answers to their questions of parenting, they must stand ready with a filter of truth to apply to everything they see and hear. That filter should simply state, “who should make the choices for my children and why?” Each child is an individual human being entrusted to his or her parents. The learning process starts immediately after birth. At no time can the responsibility of teaching that child be shifted to someone or something else without great detriment to the child’s individuality. But we have a society of American parents who can’t wait for the day they send their little darlings off to school – willing enough, even eager, to have the responsibility for their children’s learning process turned over to someone else. Not only that, but this responsibility shift has been mandated by a well laid plan of social brainwashing that managed to convince generations of Americans that they are not qualified to do their job! Indeed far too many are not – simply because they refuse to take the responsibility for it.

Getting down to basics, there should be no man’s law anywhere that strips a willing parent from his duty and responsibility to his or her children – not ever. Ungodly laws that mandate standardized children’s education from a young age have literally bred irresponsible parents. This was a carefully laid social plan. Make no mistake about it. If ever there was a place for the word, “choice” it is here. Taxpayer resources have been taken and misused under the guise of educating and maintaining a literate population for too many years. Illiteracy still runs rampant, and responsible parents are constantly plagued with indecision about whether they should turn to government or themselves for solutions. One path suggests holding an out of control government’s feet to the fire to “improve” the educational system, while the other risks being branded an “unfit” parent for pulling their children out of the system altogether. A home schooling parent must jump through ridiculous hoops to satisfy, (if they even can) government mandates concerning their children’s education. Meanwhile, the process of learning is in great jeopardy as society continues to spew forth brainwashed, illiterate (by old standards) heartless, soulless, weak masses of tomorrow’s parents – parents who have bought the “experts’” opinions on raising children with little or no self-control.

Look around you when you are out in public at the throngs of children who have not been taught to respect others, their property, or especially their own parents. That is the crisis! That is the plague on this country. And that, ladies and gentlemen, will be the downfall of it!

From the moment a child is born, there are government mandates on the parents to begin the standardization process that is in direct conflict with the learning process. These children must be issued credentials, (a Social Security Identifier) and inoculations against childhood diseases that used to be just a part of growing up. Parents who choose to buck the system have a hard row to hoe. Nanny government has decided that the very real risks from inoculations should be ignored in favor of a weakened natural immune system for life. This is truth, not conjecture. Individual readiness for “formal” education is not taken into consideration as the “school age” is continually lowered to meet the demands of those who would usurp parental rights as well as responsibilities. Parents are treated little better than breeders as society takes over the molding of a standardized citizenry.

Home schooling was born out of a desire to improve on a failing system, but this was a cog in the wheel of progress for the social engineers who would see our individuality wiped out. Actually, home schooling is a return to the way things used to be, but now long forgotten. We are not supposed to pass on the American Heritage of individual strength to our children when it flies in the face of what the government will expect out of them later. Think about that!

We cannot continue to allow mandates geared to take up the slack of the weakest and most irresponsible among us. That is how these things get passed us and grow into monstrous legislation that rips the heart and soul out of American families and leaves us ill equipped to fight the immorality and ignorance of socialism.

What will your children learn in school this year? I can tell you that a substantial amount of attention has recently been given to the question of how the “educators” will handle you – the parents – when and if you decide that you do not agree with something they are teaching. Some of you are interested only in seeing that your children “make the grade” of standardization, and you are willing to fight against right to see that happen. Some of the educators you will fight are good, caring people that take their jobs seriously and only want what they see as “best” for your child. Some of you will avoid the system altogether and teach your children at home – better than anyone else could. Some of you will make a half-hearted attempt to do what you think is right by your children and try to “improve” the failing system. Just remember, if that is your choice, it is not the only choice. What will your children learn from you?

Individuals deserve to pursue and instill the learning process through free choice unhampered by mandates for standardization. That is what made America great - unique individuality that did not answer to quotas, but fulfilled a need for courage, strength, intelligence, moral fortitude, and responsibility to a country that offered the chance to make dreams come true – not simply fill the coffers of rulers and ranks of tyrannous armies and spawn the pawns of the future’s powerful few. The learning process is being short-changed as it accepts certification for academic requirements while ignoring individual needs and responsibilities. It is fine to standardize qualifications for goals and achievements, but standardizing the way in which individuals must learn has led us to a bankruptcy of American values. There is no standard to replace the individual human spirit that has been educated in a caring atmosphere of responsible love.

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