I've just returned from a "Freedom Fair" where we had speakers on everything from Public Schooling to Global Warming...
A former School Board Trustee there said that the policy in schools here now is to "move away" from parental involvement and prepare students for a new future. That's really very ominous when you think about it. -- J Carlton, Calgary
This is a single sentence in the mission statement of the land of the Amro's school boards. -- Mike, Norwalk
Be very nervous if your children are in public schools. -- jim k, austin,tx
And it is a great weapon to have. When done right most "educated" people can see eye to eye on things like truth and science. Hey J if you have seen some of the parents I have you would not want them the parents to educate your children either. If parents had any skill at education I say let them go for it. Unfortunately very few do and that is why we hire professionals. As far as global warming it was over in April when an org calling itself "Nongovernmental Project on Climate Change" got together and issued a report with 23 authors (some of them not scientists) from 15 countries which in essence said "human activity is not a cause for concern". They hedged their bets by adding this caveat or caution: "AT LEAST NOT YET". (I understand this group is considering a report saying that the earth is round.) They issued their report to counter the original report of Intergovernmental Project on Climate Change which had 100's of scientists from 100 countires. Michael Oppenheimer of Princeton U. said, "the core of the science on climate change is settled, and nothing these people do is going to change that". By these people he meant the likes of Ralph Reed, one of Jack Abramoff''s friends etcetera. This meeting was sponsored by some oufit called The Heartland Institute. What we all would like to know is: why do these people do this, what is motivating them? -- Waffler, Smith, Arkansas
Education is only a weapon in that an educated person is one which is more likely to have their eyes open and understand what they are seeing. Propaganda and brain-washing are not education! Belief systems are not education! -- Anonymous, Reston, VA US
Free and compulsory 'education' is nothing but governmental indoctrination. We are homeschooling our children now -- it is no surprise that they are 2 years ahead of their peers in academic study. We are together much, much more as a family. State institutionalism steals so much from the family in the name of 'socialization' -- I think you may as well as say 'socialism' because the only socialization people need is their ordinary life in society. Everyone finds their way -- and it doesn't take social workers to do so. If education is a weapon, then in America, upon whom is it aimed and for what purpose? -- E Archer, NYC
Too bad his spirit is alive and well in our educational system. -- warren, olathe
Warren...that's because our education system was designed from Stalin's. "his spirit" has no choice but to be alive when we take what he designed for indoctrination and use it. We then indoctrinate our own. The problem is how we do it and what we teach. As a teach of 14 years, I can see many socialistic teaching from the top all the way down to the individual class room. -- R Logan, North Georgia
EDUCATION IS THE WAY TO SUCCESS WHICH CAN BASE OUR OBJECTIVE STANDARDS FREELY ARE THE ONES THAT WILL INTERNALIZE AND ALLOW TO GUIDE HIS OR HER LIFE -- LYNN SEVERINO, LAMPAYAN COTABATO
-- J Carlton, Calgary
-- Waffler, Smith, Arkansas
-- Anonymous, Reston, VA US
