And that is what most governments try to do. -- E Archer, NYC
My favorite psychopath (after all my other favorite psychopaths). -- David L Rosenthal
Ah, the hypocrisy of the American public. We love to praise our indoctrinating public education... We praise what the previous quote of Einstein, that knowledge should not be restricted to an elite group; thusly, we support public education, because it is supposedly the best tool for providing and equalizing the education of the American student; however, public education is much more a master than a servant, in indoctrinating multiple generations into an entitlement attitude. In general, American’s, on the surface, will fight against governmental supervision in the formation of public opinion, while, in the same breath, supporting, with full heart, government-run public education. What hypocrisy! It’s not in government’s prerogative to train it’s citizenry to be self dependant; citizen’s of a government must depend on the government for their education, opportunity, safety, sustenance, accountability, and responsibility! You cannot be a slave to a government, receiving all the wonderful benefits that the master gives his slave, and also be the master. You are either one or the other. You either fight all forms of state supervision upon the formation of public opinion, and take education, the first and strongest source of indoctrination, out of the hands of the state--- Or you can do as Samuel Adams said, “crouch down and lick the hand which feeds you, may your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.” You cannot send your child to place of learning, knowledge, and education, that is governed, funded, and put together by the government, and be against the state’s right of the formation of public opinion. -- Logan, Memphis, TN
hmmm: I think this is the religious anthem emblazoned in the foreheads of all current government(s) and media participants(figuratively speaking, of course) wow Logan, I can see you ate the whole industrial strength meal of liberty today, I love it. -- Mike, Norwalk
The more I read these quotes from Nazis, the more I am reminded of King George & His Hench Men (hum, could be a good band name, eh? ;-). Personally, I've always found that products of public schools are much more likely to be thinkers than those of religious schooling &/or home schooling. -- Anonymous, Reston, VA US
You nailed it Logan. That and religious reasons is why we home school. My son went to a government school kindergarten, and even at that age I could see the indoctrination in socialism, environmentalism and political correctness even though we live in a pretty conservative small town. You see extremes of this in places like California, and I hear parents say, "I'd never send my kids to government school THERE". However, I don't think there are any schools safe from this government endoctrination. The federal government keeps them all in line by dangling the "federal funding" carrot in front of them. -- Mike, Mount Holly, NC
Reston, how many home schoolers have you met and talked with? Your hatred of Christianity and religion and your liberal world view so obviously colors everything you think and say, I can just about predict your replies before you make them. Do you fancy yourself a free thinker? Then why do you always parrot the liberal/Democrat party line? -- Mike, Mount Holly, NC
... by the way, most of the Founders and many of our early presidents were home schooled (and Christian). Just imagine how much better this country could have been if they'd had the benefit of our government schools. -- Mike, Mount Holly, NC
Government schools are sheep factories ... my new bumper sticker ;-) -- Mike, Mount Holly, NC
Notice bigotry's choice of entitlement for public schoolers, 'products'. Reston, do a little research (if your able). What is the percentage of home scholars vs. public schoolers getting advanced degrees in the ivy league schools? -- Mike, Norwalk
Reston, while the state was forming public opinion, was it the state's public class on the 12 apostles, Christ's miracles, or what that so jaded you? -- Mike, Norwalk
Logan: If it were not for hypocrisy, I would not know what to think of myself. -- David L. Rosenthal, Ivory Tower
SPIN is what they call today's supervision of government propoganda. -- Joe, Rochester, MI
-- eliz, spokan
You people are so stupid that you did not even read the quote. You did not think about who said it and its implications. You are on tangents about home schooling and religion. The only guy that got is was the first blogger. What morons!
"Absolute right of the state" means you cannot question it. All that the Nazi's wanted to do was formulate and supervise public opinion. Amazing that the media and goverment of today can do the same thing while most of society (represented by you bloggers) never addressed the culprits that produce the propaganda itself. -- Dan, San Diego, CA
-- Anonymous
A statement that is about as anti-American as it gets, yet somehow it is an American industry... -- J Carlton, Calgary
For Mike of Mount Holly. Our founders and Presidents would never have written the Constitution or the Bill of Rights had they been publicly schooled. It was their Christianity and their Home schooling that sowed the seeds of our Republic and our Liberties. Unfortunately, when Ben Franklin told us that they gave us a Republic, if we can keep it, he had a lot of foresight and unfortunately, we were not able to keep it, because we are now swallowed up by Statism, i.e Big Government. What a crime against Humanity. -- Herta, Sarasota
As true as it gets in America today! Oh sure someone will say it is not true, but the sad fact is that public opinion is shaped by the radical , liberal, press here in the United States. You can say Goebells quote is wrong, yet in fact it is true, look around today and say that it is not happening, you can't. -- Karl Marx, Franklin, Pa.
-- E Archer, NYC
-- Dan, San Diego, CA
-- Anonymous
