Neal Boortz Quote 

"How many Catholic schools do you think teach the students to question
the authority of the Pope? Do you believe Christian schools teach
students to question or challenge the authority of Jesus Christ?
Do military schools teach the cadets to challenge the authority
of superior officers? Well, why should we then expect government schools
to teach children to question the authority of government?"

by:
Neal Boortz
(1945- ) Radio talk show host, columnist
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So true! So obvious! And yet so needed to be said! Public Education is the foundation of all lasting tyrannies. Does anyone wonder why Marx identified public education as one of the ten necessary attributes of Communism? Because without it people might get smart and throw off their Communist oppressors. By the same token, why has our government taken over the education system? Because otherwise people would throw off their oppressors in their supposedly free governments.
 -- Johnson, Gainesville, FL		 
Johnson, said very very well.
 -- Mike, Norwalk		 
That is why Hillary will do what she can to end home schooling.
 -- warren, olathe		 
There's a reason for this... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urmtozaslsc&mode=related&search= Check it out.
 -- J Carlton, Calgary		 
5 stars for accuracy, not for my approval of such a system. If we want a real education, we will have to study on our own. If we want freedom, we have to exercise Independence -- that is the responsibility required for liberty.
 -- E Archer, NYC		 
And yet, those with a true mind of their own will learn under public education systems... but rarely under these other systems. Just because the weak minded fail under all of these systems, does not mean that the system that does teach questioning is a failure.
 -- Anonymous, Reston, VA US		 
Neil Boortz is a flaming rightwinger who once tried passing himself off as a libertarian. He is wrong in dismissing public education as somehow stifling free thought. It does no such thing. How else does he think that he and I and millions of others became independent thinkers?
 -- A.Jurgensen, Stuart, FL		 
I went to a public school that still taught the Constitution and the Constitution requires you to question the government.
 -- Mary, Largo		 
I am a victim of a public school education, and I am continually trying to overcome that handicap. I applaud all the rest of you who are as well by taking the initiative and teaching yourselves. It seems that some have a little more learning to do than others, however............"A professor is a mediocrity that is an expert on the works of great men."---Ellis Washington.
 -- Ken, Allyn, WA		 
I went to school in the 50's and 60's and we were taught to question the government and were taught as well the constitution. You had to learn how the constitution and government worked to graduate high school. The down slide started in the early 60's when prayer was eliminated in school by the Supreme Court’s ACLU types. Prayer in and of itself doesn’t mean much in the school but it was the first step towards the removal of any type of moral instruction in the class room. Now you are taught that morality is up to your personal preference and truth is what ever you decide it is. Our system of government was created for a moral populace and will not function as originally designed with out strong moral character being its cornerstone. Destroying the moral fiber of the country was Roger Baldwin's first step towards bringing this country to Communism (his stated goal for his organization - the ACLU).
 -- warren, olathe		 
I went to public school and I learned that if you are a conservative you have to be better prepared in discussions and had to have much more well researched and supported papers to get the A I was looking for. I think some of that is human nature...when you agree with the paper you are reading, it is harder to notice if the claims are not supported. But it certainly was not the intention of the teachers to strengthen my conservatism through opposition to it.
 -- Dana, Lincoln		 
very true
 -- Anonymous		 
 -- Anonymous 
I, too, was educated in government school in the 50s and 60s, and I agree with warren, olathe's comment 100 per cent. I give this comment a five star.
 -- James, Crossville, TN		 
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