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I can't find a suitable confirmation, but apparently Prussian King Frederick Wilhelm I on this day in 1717 decreed compulsory education for all those aged 5 to 12. The system's purpose was to instill loyalty to the Crown and train men for the military & bureaucracy. In the 1840s New England Transcendentalists imported the totalitarian Prussian system into the US, and with it the idea of compulsory education. Y'all have heard that praised so much in your lives you've likely never taken a second to think what it really means: snatching children away from their parents' care & nuture to indoctrinate them the way the state wants them indoctrinated. Nothing has damaged the American character worse than compulsory public education.
Don't y'all forget I have a delete key and know how to use it, so don't send me any of those "No poor kids would know how to read without compulsory public education" emails because it's simply not true. About 1802 a DuPont wrote home of his experience in the US that literacy was almost universal. It doesn't matter, though-- teaching people to read at the price of rupturing the holy bond between parent and child is simply too high a price for a free people to pay.
Spot on Brock.
ReplyDeleteHe's a smart man.
DeleteMany things in life are neither good nor evil....like guns.
ReplyDeleteCompulsory education itself is not evil. It is the curriculum
being tought, the agenda being served that makes the issue
one of contention. Most things in life can be used for either
good or bad as those motivations exist in the hearts of man
not the in the object or action.
Compulsory
Deleteis. :)
Brock, my lovely bride of 31 years and I have home schooled all 7 of our children. That's the best way to raise polite, we'll behaved, educated patriots. I'm afraid that unless the III movement begins to take that responsibility seriously, we will keep losing our precious children to government indoctrination. Sorry to hear you won't be at CA's yapfest, we were hoping to meet you!
DeleteCongratulations, Sir and I fully agree. Years ago when Dixie and I were at one of her first Sam Davis Youth Camps, I mentioned to her that the two large families we had just met were all homeschooled. Dixie replied that she had immediately realized this as they all were well mannered, knowledgeable and reservedly friendly.
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Sorry to hear you won't be at CA's yapfest, we were hoping to meet you!
Me too! Dixie couldn't go to her 8th camp this year because of a course that was only taught in the summer, so we planned in May to go to Ocracoke for a week. If you get a chance come to the fall PATCON the first weekend of October.
We are examining the logistics of that trip. One of my son's has a buddy stationed at Camp Lejeune so it looks quite possible. We have 4 sons and 3 daughters, all work in or help out with our family business. Church and homeschooling keep us all close!
DeleteThat's great and I'm in Cape Carteret which is about 25 minutes north of Camp Lejeune and from here about 2 hours further north to the PATCON.
DeleteSo anything compulsory is bad.....how about compulsory quarantines during pandemics....or does the right to wander around infecting people at will trump such ideology.
DeleteOnce again, who decides what is compulsory or not?
Delete"No poor kids would know how to read without compulsory public education"
ReplyDeleteLossa po' kids stil cain't reed eevn WIF compulcery eddycashun. or spel eether.
What difference does it make!
Compulsory education in and of itself is not necessarily bad. It's what and how they teach that has become objectionable. If I am not mistaken, the Founders believed in a well educated public. I suspect many more folks would home school or get their children private education if they knew the origin and intent of the modern school system.
BTW. Halfway through the book "The South Was Right" by the Kennedy brothers....not THOSE Kennedy brothers. A good read with lots of documentation to back it up.
hbbill
Somewhere behind enemy lines,
Peoples Republik of Kommiefornia
Compulsory education in and of itself is not necessarily bad.
DeleteI'm not a compulsory anything advocate. :)
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"The South Was Right"
Yes, very good and they have another one that is good also, but it's at Dixieland and I can't remember the name. There are so many good ones, but War Crimes Against Southern Civilians by Walter Cisco just popped into my head as one you would enjoy unless you have already.
I actually learned a lot from my sentence in the government school system:
ReplyDelete1) Always carry a weapon. (sharpened pencils and a roll of quarters can be effective without arousing suspcion.
2) Aways keep a wall to your back. Don't let people behind you.
3) Sit near an exit door.
4) Be constantly aware of your environment.
5) Watch people's hands.
6) If you are attacked, counterattack immediately and without mercy, and focus on the ringleader, with the goal of doing as much damage a physically possible;
7) So called "civil authority" is a lot more interested in quiet than in justice, and calling in "the authorities" is not only a waste of time but likely to make things worse.
I assume you're being serious and if so, that is a most damning indictment. Thanks..
DeleteSo compulsory ANYTHING must then be evil by your logic.
ReplyDeleteThat means that when the next pandemic arrives compulsory
quarantine will be evil, should not be allowed and the sick and
infective should have the right to wander freely and infect any and
all they come across.
No....compulsory is NOT in and of itself evil...it is merely a tool.
And like ALL tools can be used for good or for bad.
Compulsory:
DeleteWho gets to determine what should or should not be? Obama? the Cops? 51%? Screw them and anyone who thinks they can tell me how to raise my children. People who want to control others are sick. Just leave me alone, though seems like we tried that awhile back.........:)
just like animals in the wild
ReplyDeleteit should be the parents who teach their children
i know a boy 14yrs old who couldn't read because of mental problems from birth defects
in the last 60 days i have actually got him reading not very well but we are working on it - he has 3 brothers they are a friends kids - but i love them as if they were mine
so i do what i can
livin to ride
Thanks and more power to you.
DeleteAs one, which spent my life learning, I highly value an education. Sadly, government schools and colleges completely fail in their task. Due to my age, I do not look at the world through any political correctness filter. I do believe everyone needs to have a basic education. However, my basic education is much different that what we see today. All children need to know the basics how to read with understanding and they need to be able to add and subtract numbers. Those two things should be universally taught. Included with those is boys need to be taught to become men and girls need to be taught to become women. Other topics at least addressed should be science, civics, government, American history, world history, literature and others I am sure. When I attended school, we learned how to apply our education into the real world.
ReplyDeleteI also had a sexist education boys learned how to be a man while the girls learned to become women. It is true there was a time when schools actually taught boys and girls different things. Before we go any further, I must admit I am a sexist. I do not believe that men and women are equal. Women are a very special gift to the world and should be treated as such. Sadly, with our current education most girls do not grow up to become women they just end-up female. Back to my topic boys has “shop” classes. In those, we learned the basics of many skills like woodworking, electric, carpentry, plumbing, machinist, welding and drafting to name a few. The girls had “home economics” they learned sewing, cooking and other skills. We also both learned things like balancing a checkbook. Outside just the “informational” education, we learned how to become men and women. This part of our current education is completely missing.
Then again, I grew up in a different world than today. When I graduated high school, I could go into a job that would not only support me but a family. I also could go to college and get a higher education if I wished. It was a world where if you wanted to work there was a good paying job waiting.
Our schools fail at preparing the students to be adults. If America is again to become great then “OUR” children must learn and learn what is needed. They need to be taught what a society expects of them, not what they can mooch off society. Boys again need to be taught to become men and girls also need to be taught how to become women. Those in power are doing their best to destroy society by destroying the basis of every society the family. If somehow we do not find a way to make family most important again then as a culture we are doomed.
Badger
Our schools fail at preparing the students to be adults.
DeleteOn purpose, I fear and another excellent comment.
Compulsory is not a neutral term, volunteerism is neutral. Government mandates the compulsory payment of taxes....and then attempts to convince us that it is all voluntary on our part. Newspeak at its best.
DeleteGood point and all for our own good as they know what's best for us...........
Deletepublic education boils down to this:
ReplyDelete-learned helplessness and increased dependence
-separation of child from parent
- employing (mostly) the otherwise unemployable.
-equating obedience with intelligence
-indoctrination
all due to the takeover by the progressives.
quote from the movie Ideocracy. (which we are living)
"Narrator: As the 21st century began, human evolution was at a turning point. Natural selection, the process by which the strongest, the smartest, the fastest, reproduced in greater numbers than the rest, a process which had once favored the noblest traits of man, now began to favor different traits. Most science fiction of the day predicted a future that was more civilized and more intelligent. But as time went on, things seemed to be heading in the opposite direction. A dumbing down. How did this happen? Evolution does not necessarily reward intelligence. With no natural predators to thin the herd, it began to simply reward those who reproduced the most, and left the intelligent to become an endangered species. "
-learned helplessness and increased dependence
Delete-separation of child from parent
- employing (mostly) the otherwise unemployable.
-equating obedience with intelligence
-indoctrination
How did we get from Mayberry to here......? Crazy.
All education should be local. Controlled by the parents.
ReplyDeleteAmen.
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