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Amen..I love Dennis Prager...he says it like it is. Our schools have been the number 1 tool to destroy this country. Don't like what I have to say? Then stop listening to the info given to you..research proves it. We now have massive amounts of people within the school system screaming at the American public about how vile it is..but everyone is so dumbed down..no one wants to believe it..sad thing is..most parents won't like his speech..this goes way back before our kids. There are countless documentaries on this. I could be here for hrs sharing links on the disgusting role our govt education plays in the dumbing down of America.
I have seen the village and I do not want it raising my children.
Its time to admit that public education operates like a planned economy, a bureaucratic system in which everyones role is spelled out in advance and there are few incentives for innovation and productivity. Its no surprise that our school system doesnt improve. It more resembles the communist economy than our own market economy. - Albert Shanker, late President of the American Federation of Teachers, 1974 1997
"Sadly, life in many U.S. public schools is now essentially equivalent to life in U.S. prisons. Most parents don't realize this, but our students have very few rights when they are in school. Our public school students are being watched, tracked, recorded, searched & controlled like never before...The following are 18 signs that life in our public schools is very similar to life in our prisons..."
http://beforeitsnews.com/story/677/...ially_Equivalent_To_Life_In_U.S._Prisons.html
"Every child in America entering school at the age of five is insane because he comes to school with certain allegiances toward our founding fathers, toward his parents, toward a belief in a supernatural being... It's up to you, teachers, to make all of these sick children well by creating the international children of the future." - Kathy Collins, a publication of Council for Democratic & Secular Humanism, 1987
Colin Gunn and his family travel in a big yellow school bus across America shooting a new documentary film that explores the origins of the American education system, the effects of public schools on the Christian family, and the turning of the hearts of parents to their children through home education. indoctrinationmovie.com/
"The aim of public education is not to fill the young of the species with knowledge & awaken their intelligence...Nothing could be further from the truth. The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed & train a standardized citizenry, to down dissent & originality. That is its aim..." - H. L. Mencken, 1924
Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt, former Senior Policy Advisor in the U.S. Department of Education, blew the whistle on government activities.
http://www.deliberatedumbingdown.com/
Charlotte Iserbyt: The Miseducation of America - Part One
"What is even more depressing and disturbing for this once great country is that 20% of all graduating high school students are functionally illiterate. This is at a time when the United States of America is spending over $10 billion dollars a year to combat this growing phenomenon. While public education funding has doubled in the last fifteen years, testing indicates the percentage of American children who read well has not improved for the last 25 years."
http://slowdecline.wordpress.com/20...al-illiterates-who-contribute-to-its-decline/
We no longer see the teaching of facts and information as the primary function of education... Building a new kind of people must be a part of the curriculum... More and more schools are the center of all human resource development... The earlier we can intervene in the lives of people the more effective we can be. Dr. Shirley McCune; Governors Conference on Education; Wichita, Kansas; 1989
"I don't want a nation of thinkers. I want a nation of workers." John D. Rockefeller, founder of the National Education Association
A Valedictorian bases her speech on how awful the public education system really is
"[P]ublic school is an officially agnostic, tax-supported institution of education for dependent children...anyone who denies the definition will have trouble with his case because the definition is so obviously descriptive of what we call the public schools here in America."Douglas Wilson (Author, Philosopher, and Teaching Elder)
"I urge you to examine in your own mind the assumptions which must lay behind using the police power to insist that once-sovereign spirits have no choice but to submit to being schooled by strangers." John Taylor Gatto
Education should aim at destroying free will so that after pupils are thus schooled they will be incapable of thinking or acting otherwise than as their school masters would have wished. - Bertrand Russell (18721970), British Philosopher
"We do not need any more preaching about right or wrong. The old 'thou shall nots' simply are not relevant. Values clarification is a method for teachers to change the values of children without getting caught."-- Dr. Sidney Simon, Lecturer, Secularist & Educator
"No one in America today is better qualified to report on the true condition of our government education system than John Taylor Gatto, the now-famous educator who spent 26 years teaching in six different schools in New York City and quit because he could no longer take part in a system that destroys lives by destroying minds..." (reviewed by Samuel L Blumenfeld)
http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/bookstore/dumbdnblum1.htm
