We Lose Our Schools, We Lose Our Children, We Lose Our Future

at February 22, 2005 11:31 AM

How many of us saw the bit on Fox News this morning that told us about the sixth graders in a New York school who sent one of our soldiers in Iraq some classic Leftist anti-American hate mail? Keep your eye on Fox; there's bound to be some followup. This disgusting situation is just the latest of many; please read Rubisco's articles on 6th Column Against Jihad and my articles (under "cubed") at the same site (more to follow in time--the current ones deal with the American school system, while the next ones will begin to deal with the Muslim system).

For all of you who think that Kantian nihilism is just the concern of some old guys in tweed jackets with leather elbow patches shut away somewhere in a dusty, book-filled room in the philosophy department of some overly-endowed Ivy League university, look again.

If the nihilists (via Kant and other [primarily] German philosophers) hadn't begun their attempt to destroy this country by around 1810, during the lifetimes of our very first three presidents, barely after our country had been designed and implemented by the Founders, we wouldn't be in the extraordinarily dangerous situation we are in today.

The schools were among the destroyers' first targets, along with politics and the media. With those three professions in their pockets, and with unremitting energy, they have thoroughly paved the way for their fellow travelers of Islam to take us out. "They" even have our "conservative" radio talk show hosts in their pockets; listen to the rejection they spew forth whenever they have a caller from Jihad Watch etc. who calls and cites one of Robert Spencer's works.

Horace Mann, a product of the German philosophers, was the virtual creator of our government school system, and it was among his original goals to create a population compliant and submissive to government.

His effort was strongly supported by a couple of socialists named Robert Owen and Frances Wright, who said that government schools should have the children 24 hours a day, year around, from the ages 2 to 16, and that they should be treated utterly equally with respect to food, clothing, and curriculum; the curriculum they wanted was one that they hoped would achieve all their goals for society, including government-enforced equalization of property and income. And this was WAY before the Soviet Union, folks; collectivism has a history that goes WAY back.

That was too extreme for most, but by the mid-1800s, when the government school system was up and running, the principles Owen and Wright espoused had been largely adopted by the Progressive "educationists." Today, we have schools that have before and after school-care programs, broad-based medical programs, activity programs, and in many other ways resemble the Owen and Wright ideal.

The curriculum also resembles their ideal; it's goal is to "dumb down" the students so they don't know anything and even worse, don't care that they don't know, and to infuse them with their collectivist philosophy that has so intensely opposed the philosophy of the Founders.

If you don't believe that one of the goals of our government is to "dumb down" our kids, please read "The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America" by Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt; Iserbyt took her inspiration from the late congressman John Ashbrook, whose work in the 60s and 70s helped expose the plans to internationalize and dumb down American education. Iserbyt collected actual documents where government policy makers discussed their destructive ambitions, and then fled her government position in order to publish them for all of us to see.

This traiterous policy has successfully blocked any attempts any of us have to insert into curricula the means to counter their efforts. The entire textbook industry is under their thumbs, and it explains why our children can't get the straight skinny on Islam. PC, multiculturalism, "one worldism" and "diversity" are all products of the Kantian Left.

The reason "everyone around the world hates America" is because America is the last place on earth that still has a small residuum of the Aristotelian philosophy that jump-started the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and the Industrial Age that enabled slavery and other gross injustices to come to an end. Aristotle is humankind's friend, but the enemy of Kant, his ilk, and Islam.

The reason we remain the most successful, prosperous, and happy nation on earth (except for the chronic whiners, the Kantian Left, which has evolved into today's Postmodern nihilists) is because even though we have been prevented from access to philosophy in our schools, the tiny spark of Aristotelian thinking that gave birth to our nation remains with us today as "The Great American Subconscious." We continue to thrive on the tiny shred of our founding philosophy that remains. Unfortunately, many of us see even this slowly slipping away, and see that the loss is tragically unopposed by a population that consists of many school generations deliberately rendered ignorant of its importance.

Folks, we must take the destruction of our schools seriously. We will never be able to change the system as it exists now; it is entrenched via a huge behemoth of a bureaucracy and in the psyches of most of its graduates as well. We must instead establish our own schools, formulate a rational Aristotelian curruculum, and see to it that our kids know reality and how to think about it.

If you need some convincing that a private school system actually has "the right stuff" to lead the way out from under the thumb of the Kantian Left's massive, powerful government school system, please also read Andrew Coulson's "Market Education."

We can do it. It's really not terribly difficult.