Where are Our Schools going?  "Every child in America 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." --Professor Chester M. Pierce, M.D., Professor of Education and Psychiatry at Harvard "The schools cannot allow parents to influence the kind of values-education their children receive in school; that is what is wrong with those who say there is a universal system of values. Our (humanistic) goals are incompatible with theirs. We must change their values."
--Paul Haubner, specialist for the N.E.A. "I think we absolutely have to realize that if we were to educate everyone, the country would fall apart. . . . We absolutely positively have to have a group of undereducated, unskilled people to do all these dirty jobs that `the comfortable classes,' as John Kenneth Galbraith calls them, will not do." "...until everyone owns a humanoid robot, as well as a car and a color television, some person will have to do the `dirty jobs.' Until then, however, loath as we are to admit it, we must continue to produce an uneducated social class..." --Gerald Bracey, Stanford-educated research psychologist, policy analyst, author and former NEA-analyst "Perhaps the best way to enforce this standard is to confer valuable benefits and privileges on people who need it, and to withhold them from people who do not. Work permits, good jobs and college admissions are the most obvious." --Chester Finn, advocate of Goals 2000, director of the Education Excellence Network in Washington D.C. Notice that all of the above are statements by our educators or those dealing in education. So many changes have been made in our School Systems in the past few years. The mention
of "God" has been removed from our schools, but at the same time they are teaching our students
about "Islam". When this happened locally, I decided that one of the things I could do was to remove
my grandson from the local school, and let him go to school out of state. Then when I read the
following, I felt my decision was right. - "The 'Islam is peaceful' message was recently reinforced at the University
of North Carolina, when freshmen were assigned selections of the Koran ---- peaceful selections,
that is.
The parts about how it is the duty of Muslims to kill Jews, Christians, and other 'infidels' --
the parts about holy wars that are of vital importance in light of September 11 -- were somehow
left out. ...
The problem is not so much that kids are being taught about Islam or even asked to read the
Koran -- though I have my objections to that. The problem is that there is no balance in those
teachings. In the name of tolerance, Islam is being whitewashed; the distinctions between Islam
and Western culture are being systematically scrubbed away."
--Chuck Colson
Every day you see or hear of something new that is very disturbing to many of us. The following pages are a few that you should read or visit. There are organizations that are trying to explain what is happening to our Educational System. There are a number of Web Sites that will give you a good idea of what is going on in some areas of our country. Some of them you may have to weed through their advertisements and other articles, but they are good reading. One that goes a log way in explaining what to be aware of is: EdWatch EdWatch does a fairly good job on this. Go to their web page, and in the center section, scroll down to The Questions You'll Find Answered Here: This will give you an explanation of what and how they are teaching in our schools today. Also scroll down the left side of the page to "What is New". Read the articles they have posted and you will get a good picture of what is happening. More web pages will be listed as we find them. If you know of any, and feel a change is needed, please let us know. The following are a few items that I find worth remembering.
"The big problem in the long process of dumbing down the schools is that you can reach a
point of no return. How are parents who never received a decent education themselves to
recognize that their children are not getting a decent education?"
--Thomas Sowell
"Our coins bear the words 'In God We Trust'. We take the oath of office asking His help in
keeping that oath. And we proclaim that we are a nation under God when we pledge allegiance to
the flag. But we can't mention His name in a public school or even sing religious hymns that are
nondenominational. Christmas can be celebrated in the school room with pine trees, tinsel and
reindeers, but there must be no mention of the man whose birthday is being celebrated. One
wonders how a teacher would answer if a student asked why it was called Christmas."
--Ronald Reagan
"The issues which today confront the nation are clearly defined and so fundamental as to
directly involve the very survival of the Republic. Are we going to preserve the religious base to
our origin, our growth and our progress or yield to the devious assaults of atheistic or other anti-
religious forces? Are we going to maintain our present course toward State Socialism with
Communism just beyond or reverse the present trend and regain our hold upon our heritage of
liberty and freedom? ... Are we going to permit a continuing decline in public and private morality
or re-establish high ethical standards as the means of regaining a diminishing faith in the integrity
of our public and private institutions?... In short, is American life of the future to be characterized
by freedom or by servitude, strength or weakness? The answer must be clear and unequivocal if
we are to avoid the pitfalls toward which we are now heading with such certainty. In many
respects it is not to be found in any dogma of political philosophy but in those immutable precepts
which underlie the Ten Commandments."
--General Douglas MacArthur
"We who are living in the west today are fortunate. Freedom has been bequeathed to us. We
have not had to carve it out of nothing; we have not had to pay it with our lives. But it would be a
grave mistake to think that freedom requires nothing of us. Each of us has to earn freedom anew
in order to possess it. We do so not just our own sake, but the sake of our children, so that they
may build a better future that will sustain over the world the responsibilities and blessings of
freedom."
-- Margaret Thatcher
"A nation of well informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which
God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins."
-- Benjamin Franklin
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the
voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasure. From that moment
on the majority always votes the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury,
with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a
dictatorship. The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These
nations have progressed through the following sequence:
--Lord Alexander Tytler on the fall of the Athenian republic.
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