The
Case Against Socialism and Public Education
Deborah
Venable
09/28/02
The
case against public education was made almost 120 years ago with data over 200
years old at that time. Painstaking
research had been compiled that supplied undeniable proof of the damage to our
society being caused by mandated public education. Those who tried to bring this material to public attention were
maligned and discredited and even persecuted.
Think about this: the proof of the total ineffectiveness and even
detriment of spending more and more money on public education had been
collected, verified, brought to the attention of the government, and
subsequently tossed aside as even more public money was coerced from the
American people as control of their children was taken from them and placed in
the Godless, greedy hands of public educators – almost one hundred and twenty
years ago! Download this
book and read it.
This
system is so very corrupt that if we do not totally dismantle it and take our
children and our liberties back from it, American liberties in any form will
not survive. I believe this with every
fiber of my being. It is not enough to
sit around ringing our hands and talking about the mess that the education
system is in. It certainly is not
enough to think that it can ever be fixed with money, and it is not enough to
think that many more generations of Americans, predominately educated in the
public system, will ever be able to compete in the world, much less survive as
leaders toward honorable human advances.
We
hear concerns that our borders are being overrun, our culture is being diluted and
our language is becoming less important to our identity as a nation. All of this is true, and all made possible
by the subversive efforts of mandated, standardized education and the mutilated
definitions of our re-written language.
Not only has our history been bastardized, but also the very conduit to
understanding our heritage – the words that define it. The dialect of despotic, ungodly rule over
the basics of our humanity has left us without the comfort of timeworn meaning
in the very language we speak. The
daily bickering in our once revered courts and on the floors of our
legislatures, where learned citizens are suppose to wisely decide our fates, is
a testament to our supposed greater numbers of literacy. This imagined literacy that allows family
values to be replaced with imagined public benefit has produced very real chaos
and a manifestation of the worst in human behavior to rule a morally bankrupt
citizenry no longer concerned with defining our borders, embracing our own
culture or speaking one nationally understood language. Yes, we are ripe for ruin.
The
socialism of Karl Marx and company was officially imported to our shores with
the overabundant flow of immigrants that came to fill the demand for workers to
support the industrial explosion in America after the Civil War. Production was up, wages were down, profits
were high and slavery was replaced with the low-income masses’ struggle to
survive and carve a piece of the American pie.
Socialism was mistakenly interchanged with compassion in a country
already doubting the validity of religious teachings. Instead of relying on individual abilities to advance in a
philosophy that valued freedom above collective power, these new thinkers
promoted an idea that collective power equaled compassion for those without
hope and the only avenue to achieve social fairness in self government. Previous ideas of spiritual charity
flourishing in a free society were tossed aside in a feverish attempt to rein
in the most available wealth for the economically challenged.
Socialists
insist that all things be ordered, as impossible as that may be, and will do
whatever it takes to control people with people using whatever tools are at
hand. If religion lends itself to use, even
it is embraced until such time it can be replaced by political governance. Socialism simply relies on the organization
of groups to achieve an outcome.
Assimilation of the various groups into the mainstream is accomplished
over time and often without leaving a clue to the original intent of any one
group. The original intent of educating
the masses to achieve intelligent self-rule was an honorable one. That it was foisted on the public expense
account, mandated, standardized, and placed above parental rights and family
values, as it continues to be today, is an unforgivable socialist
infringement. Organized, public
education failed the American people in every respect, and has rotted the
fabric that was carefully woven to represent everything America once stood
for. The cancer of socialism has
consumed the healthy tissue of individual free will to the extent that far too
many accept the disease as normal.
Defining freedom is a difficult task for those who never really
experienced it, so demanding it, as our forefathers did, will be met with
opposition from this standardized “literacy” of socialism.
Though
socialism itself tends to breed discontent, it demands conformity to the will
of the masses that is truly ironic.
Truth cannot be told, therefore valuable knowledge obtained, through the
filter of mandated public education, even as it claims its own necessity
through an insistence of overcoming ignorance.
It does not overcome ignorance, or even illiteracy, but merely confounds
the natural human ability to yearn for freedom through real knowledge. Socialism will never lead its followers to
peace and will never succeed in educating any citizenry to achieve or accept
it. Human beings are far better than
any socialist philosophy will allow them to be and far worse than can ever be
controlled by it.
If
all the money currently being collected and spent for the purpose of public
education and socialist programs like it was allowed to remain within the
pockets of those from whom it has been confiscated, and choice for spending
that money was given back to the original earner of it, education and public
well being would not cease to be in this country. If the system of schools and universities now in existence that
depends on public money for survival had to make its case to a free society
that could choose to support it or not, the system would be “fixed” in short
order. If parents could and would take
responsibility for their children’s literacy, as well as their own, illiteracy
and ignorance in this country would receive an arrow in its destructive
heart. If we could assemble a group of
representatives concerned more with preserving American liberties for future
generations than they are about power, prestige, and wealth in their own
pockets, they could cure the ills of apathy and tolerance for socialism in a
single session of the legislature. That
is the power we have that is now being squandered. This defines the ignorance that we are allowing to prevail and
the corruption that we are bequeathing to our progeny. Make no mistake – we have all been educated
to accept it.
That
is the case. Should we ever choose to
prosecute it, the true defenders of freedom must bear witness always against
the defendants of socialism and public education.