… Is it possible that there is a direct link between our
country's precipitous slide into socialism and decades of indoctrination in
leftist school ideologies? You be the judge. Read below what the founder of
today's schools and other public school advocates have said over the years:
"I believe that . . . [public] education is the
fundamental method of social progress and reform . . . this conception has due
regard for . . . socialistic ideals." and "There is no God and there
is no soul. . . . There is no room for fixed . . . or moral absolutes." --
John Dewey, father of modern public education and signer of Humanist Manifesto
(1930)
"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?" -- C.F. Potter, signer of Humanist Manifesto (1930)
". . . [E]very child in America entering schools at
the age of five is insane because he comes to schools with certain allegiances
toward our Founding Fathers, toward his parents, toward a belief in a
supernatural being, toward the sovereignty of this nation as a separate entity.
. . ." -- Chester Pierce, professor of education at Harvard (1970)
"The old order is passing. . Social controls cannot
be left to blind chance. . . . Man must be the builder of new forms of social
organizations. . . . Here [public] education must play a stellar role." --
Dan W. Dodson, professor of educational sociology at N.Y. University (1970)
"We are the biggest potential political striking
force [union] in this country, and we are determined to control the direction
of [public] education." -- NEA President Catherine Barrett (1972)
"Public schools promote civic rather than individual
pursuits. . . . We must focus on creating citizens for the good of society. . .
. Each child belongs to the state." -- William H. Seawell, professor of
education (1981)
". . . [T]he battle for humankind's future must be
waged and won in the public school classrooms by teachers who correctly
perceive their role as proselytizers of a new religion. . . . The classroom
must and will become an arena of conflict between the old and the new -- the
rotting corpse of Christianity . . . and the new faith of humanism. . . ."
-- John Dunphy, Secular-Humanist (1983)
"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, creator of "Values Clarification"
Just this summer, the NEA's retiring general counsel
publicly aired his true feelings by calling conservatives "right-wing ba----ds."
Using public education as a "weapon" is nothing
new. It was Josef Stalin who said, "Education is a weapon whose effects
depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed." Wake up,
conservatives! …
