Category: Government Schools

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“‘Parent choice’ proceeds from the belief that the purpose of education is to provide individual students with an education. In fact, educating the individual is but a means to the true end of education, which is to create a viable social order to which individuals contribute and by which they are sustained. ‘Family choice’ is, therefore, basically selfish and anti-social in that it focuses on the ‘wants’ of a single family rather than the ‘needs’ of society.”

– Association of California School Administrators — Circa 1979

1.) Who gets to determine what the needs of a society are and by what standard are the needs measured?

2.) Here we have it in bold print. Education is not about education but rather about forcing people to work in a prearranged social order.

3.) If this is the way things operate than doesn’t it make sense for Christians to start thinking about what a “Biblical Social Order” looks like?

4.) Understand here that what is being advocated is that the decision of those concerned about the “social order” is seen to be more important then the decision of the parents for the good of their children.

5.) Concomitant with #4 is the idea that the social order is of higher importance then the family order.

6.) This quote communicates the idea that an individual is sustained more by his social order then his family or church context.

7.) Understand that as this type of thinking has won the day the result has been that those who have been saturated in Government Schools have almost universally adopted the premises of the social order as taught in Government schools. The implication of this is that those people will take the premises of the social order that they were taught and will shape and form their family orders and church orders to fit the social order that they have been brainwashed in.

8.)Parents wanting to raise and educate their children so that their children have their belief system and their value matrix are considered selfish. According to this ideology it is selfish for Parents to go against the social order.

People, if that quote doesn’t make you turn green from illness you need to go to the undertaker because you are dead.

Today a friend of mine, somewhere in the vast United States, sent me a note from his wife who is a medical professional and whose job often takes her to government schools. This morning this woman wrote her husband her observations upon her entrance into the propaganda center facility.

Her husband forwarded this note to me and I duplicate it here in its entirety,

Hi Honey,

This morning I walked into Scarlett and I feel really sick… The kids are all getting the first hour of school to decorate their home room halls for the inauguration. I walked in and there are red, white and blue stars hanging from the entry way ceiling and these groups of Barak Obama balloons with Barak’s face on them and the words U.S.A, change, hope, progress. Then in the cafeteria, they’ve set up an “inaugural ball” The kids are going to watch the inauguration on a big screen and have a party after. All the kids are dressed up. It’s really sickening to see the catechism at work.

I love you,

Henrietta (name changed)

Now, I don’t think that they should have but do you think they went to this bother for any other President’s inauguration?

Look, I don’t care how you slice it, this is the kind of behavior that you expect to find from schools and teachers in North Korea as they celebrate the great leader’s life. This is the kind of thing that you watch in videos where children of communist states are all lined up to sing the praises of the tyrant. This is bleeping sick, and it would be sick no matter who it was being done for.

Note also the brilliant last sentence of Henrietta’s letter. She realizes that this is all catechism. Another word for it might be propaganda. These children are being brainwashed into Obamaism.

There are many Christians who are champions of the unborn. I salute them all. But there is a problem that is more fundamental in our country and in our Churches than the scourge of Abortion and that is the sending of our covenant children to government schools.

The reason that this issue is more important than abortion and has a greater need to be spoken to than abortion is that government schools are the institution that is creating a citizenry of moral zombies wherein a climate can thrive that can support abortion. The ascendancy of different forms of outcome based education with its value neutral emphasis and cultural Marxist origin is driving the creation of a citizenry that either supports or turns a morally tin ear to the cries of the weakest among us. If we want to stop abortion, we must, at the very least, separate the schools from State control, or failing that we must remove the children from the schools.

The State schools are serving as the Church of Humanism. If you want to stop the agenda of Humanism, which includes Abortion, you must attack the root of the matter. Stopping abortion by means of legislation, without changing the government school culture, is like picking off leaves of a Kudzu plant. The triumph is only momentary as the vine eventually grows with even more rapidity. To stop Kudzu you must kill it at the root. To stop abortion you must kill it at the root — the root is government schools. Either remove the State control of the government schools with its humanist agenda or remove the students from government schools and ending abortion will be a task that is suddenly more achievable. Fail to change the government school culture and we will be picketing abortion clinics for the next 75 years.

So to all you abortion warriors out there, if you are really serious about ending abortion then read up on what is going on in government schools and turn your artillery in that direction.

Thou shalt have no other gods before me
– God

“Every child entering school at the age of five is insane 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.”

Psychiatrist Chester M. Pierce,
Addressing 1973 Childhood International Education Seminar

Similar quotes coming from sundry other people influential in the realm of government education, as that which is cited by Pierce, could be reproduced many times over, and yet despite this clearly stated intent to reprogram children, Christians continue to send their children to government schools. Some Christians tend to think that their local schools are different because the teachers there are “nice” and maybe even “smart.” What they fail to realize is that “nice” and “smart” is always used in service of the reprogramming of children – often times without the nice and smart teacher being themselves self-conscious of the malevolent design of government schooling. The most effective reprogramming is that reprogramming that is done with a smile on the teachers face. The Christian community has to realize that the Christian teachers in the school system where they are sending their children have yoked themselves to a system that is at war with Biblical Christianity, and that the Christianity of those teachers is either a Christianity that is in abeyance or is a Christianity that has been reinterpreted to fit the mold of the humanistic agenda of the government schools in which they are employed. A Biblical Christian teacher who taught their subject matter from a Biblical Christian worldview in a humanistic school system would be fired in weeks if not days. My friends the government schools are not populated by the kind of Christians that can help your children think God’s thoughts after him.

Government schools are committed to the religion of humanism where man considered either in the individual or the collective is the god of the system. This is so true that government schools really ought to be considered churches. Just as Christian churches are charged with teaching children to think as Christians through catechesis so the government schools are charged with teaching children to think as humanists through their lessons. In the Church of humanism the teachers are the ministers. In the church of humanism the curriculum in the schools is the equivalent to the catechism in the church of Christianity. In the church of humanism there are high holy days that the adherents celebrate just as Christian churches have their own high holy days that they celebrate. In the churches of humanism people can be expelled for sinning against humanistic rules of political correctness just as in Christian churches people can be excommunicated for sins against the Christian faith. All the dynamics that one finds in Christian churches and in the Christian faith are all present in government schools. Government schools are the temples of humanism where the initiates are indoctrinated in the ways of a false religion. Don’t let anyone tell you that Americans don’t have an established religion.

Let’s briefly take a look at some of these claims and see if we can find evidence from those who are associated with government education to see if the claims hold.

When considering whether Government schools are committed to the religion of Humanism we read from Charles Potter, a former honorary President of the National Education Association,

“Education is thus a most powerful ally of humanism, and every American school is a school of humanism. What can a theistic Sunday school’s meeting for an hour once a week and teaching only a fraction of the children do to stem the tide of the five-day program of humanistic teaching?” (Charles F. Potter, “Humanism: A New Religion” 1930)

When considering whether teachers are the ministers of humanism we learn from Humanist John Dunphy,

“I am convinced that the battle for humankind’s future must be waged and won in the public school classroom by teachers that correctly perceive their role as proselytizers of a new faith: a religion of humanity that recognizes and respects the spark of what theologians call divinity in every human being… The classroom must and will become an arena of conflict between the old and new. These teachers must embody the same selfless dedication as the most rabid fundamentalist preachers, for they will be ministers of another sort, utilizing the classroom instead of a pulpit to convey humanist values in whatever subject they teach, regardless of the educational level – preschool day care or large state universities.”

Now when we combine Dunphy’s quote with a quote from the father of Outcome Based Education, Benjamin Bloom, we begin to see that Dunphy’s vision fits well within the vision of those who are “shaping” public eduation,

“By educational objectives, we mean explicit formulations of the ways in which students are expected to be changed by the educative process. That is, the ways in which they will change in their thinking, their feelings, and their actions.”

When considering the nature of the curriculum as serving the ends of religious humanism we have only to read from Dr. John I. Goodlad, former director of research and development at the Institute for Development of Educational Activities when many years ago he wrote that future curriculum “will be what one might call the humanistic curriculum.” Looking forward to the future Goodlad could say that his humanistic curriculum would “become significantly evident by 1990 or 2000.”

Now in light of this very small sampling of what has been chronicled in many other sources, and in light of the reality that the first commandment forbids us to serve other gods why do Christians send their children to government schools where their children are immersed in learning the covenant ways of a false religion? And having sent their children to government schools why do they become surprised when their children remain consistent with what they’ve learned of the faith of humanism and leave the Christian faith? Part of the reason that we are losing our children in the Church is that by placing them in government schools we are training them to be pagans.

It should be immediately added here that most people who work in and for government schools are not self-conscious about their contribution to building an anti-Christ culture in the way that they are teaching children. Many who work in government schools are Christians in the sense of religious brand identity. The problem is that they have never had the opportunity to probe and examine the presuppositions that inform the material they are teaching and have accepted as their own. In brief, they have coated their anti-Christian belief system with a thin brand coating of Christianity sugar sprinkled with niceness.

Some would object to all of this by positing that education does not need to be specifically Christian since education is not spiritual but rather is only intellectual. The reasoning of these people is that education is not religious but rather is one discipline that falls within a Creational common realm where both Christians and non-Christians can labor together despite significant differences in presuppositions. The reasoning of these folks insists that education is to be done not by the standards of God’s word but rather by the standard of natural law. They insist that God’s word doesn’t teach anything with regards to the disciplines one might expect to find in a liberal arts education. The truths of these disciplines are taught by natural law and are self-evident.

The first problem we would note to this objection is that it seems to be an objection only raised by some Christians. Other adherents of other faith systems understand perfectly well the importance of an education in keeping with their faith. This is why we can find people of other non-Christian faiths insisting on the importance of an education that is in keeping with their faith.

“He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.”

Adolf Hitler

“Give me your 4 years olds, and in a generation I will build a socialist state.”

Vladimir Lenin

The second problem we would note to this objection is that even if we concede that education doesn’t belong to the spiritual realm of grace the issue still remains what interpretation of the creational realm will be presupposed and taught in the educational process? Education always presupposes some creational order as norm and standard. So even agreeing that education belongs to the Creational common realm, the issue must still be answered, in the midst of many disputes in a pluralistic culture, is which God or gods creational common realm will be assumed as the context in which the various educational disciplines find their meaning. The real issue is what regime’s creation order will be taught. Obviously, if Christians agree that education is a “creational project,” then all Christians should probably also agree that that project will explicitly and implicitly center on the Christian Creator.

A second objection is to insist that public schools do not teach Humanist beliefs any more than they teach any other belief. The schools, so the thinking goes, are simply secular, neither promoting nor demeaning religion. Therefore any calls that insist that Christians should pull their children from government schools are unwarranted. The answer to this objection is simply to observe that as teachers can’t teach from nowhere they must educate according to some perspective, worldview, or philosophical paradigm, all of which are beholden to some kind of religion, descending and originating from some kind of Theology. The labor of this article has been to argue that the worldview of government schools, regardless of any insistence to the contrary, is humanism.

Christians are commanded to set no other God before them. When US Christians, having full knowledge of what government schools are, send their children to US government schools in spite of what they know, they are worshiping at the altar of humanism. There is just no other way to put it. Certainly, as always, there certainly may be those strange times when there are exceptions but as a whole government schools are committed to sanitizing the Christian faith from those who enter their doors.

Many people have given themselves to praying for Reformation and Awakening. Allow me to close by suggesting that if we believe that Christianity results in a regeneration in our thinking it is extraordinarily difficult (though not impossible) to understand how prayers for Reformation and Awakening will be answered in the affirmative as long as Christians continue to poison their children’s minds against Christ by sending their children to US government schools. Certainly, we can say that one sign of Reformation and awakening in the Church will be the movement of Christian parents to remove their covenant seed from government schools, thus taking the first commandment seriously again.