"It has been discovered that with a dull urban population, all formed under a mechanical system of State education, a suggestion or command, however senseless and unreasoned, will be obeyed if it be sufficiently repeated.” ― Hilaire Belloc, An Essay on the Restoration of Property
Anyone still doubting this maxim after living through COVID-times it willfully ignored and double damnable. Not only should you have known better at the time, you have to know by now. If you don't, it is merely the result of strong-willed, self-imposed deception.
"Public education has not produced an educated public." — G. K. Chesterton
But that, to be fair, has always been the plan. Public education is not about producing free thinking free men, it has always been about producing wage slaves and consumers.
“Where the old (education) initiated, the new merely ‘conditions’. The old dealt with its pupils as grown birds deal with young birds when they teach them to fly; the new deals with them more as the poultry-keeper deals with young birds— making them thus or thus for purposes of which the birds know nothing. in a word, the old was a kind of propagation—men transmitting manhood to men; the new is merely propaganda.” — C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man
State education is secular boot camp. They are producing a particular kind of soldier for the particular kind of war they are waging. They are wanting to destroy the freedom loving, Christian West and so they first seek to destroy the free, Christian man.
“I don't want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers.” — John D. Rockefeller
Those who are trained to think begin to question the system. Those who have never been taught to think do not even have categories for imagining anything else. The dreams of the tyrants are the reality of the oppressed.
"In our dreams...people yield themselves with perfect docility to our molding hands. The present educational conventions fade from our minds, and unhampered by tradition, we work our own good will upon a grateful and responsive folk. We shall not try to make these people or any of their children into philosophers or men of learning or men of science. We have not to raise up from among them authors, educators, poets or men of letters. We shall not search for embryo great artists, painters, musicians, nor lawyers, doctors, preachers, politicians, statesmen, of whom we have ample supply. The task we set before ourselves is very simple...we will organize children...and teach them to do in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way." — Rockefeller's General Education Board (1906)
The goal of public education is malleable public for the molders of modernity to manipulate as they see fit without any backchat from the clay.
"We want one class to have a liberal education. We want another class, a very much larger class of necessity, to forgo the privilege of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks." — Woodrow Wilson
A liberal education liberates. It frees the mind to creative endeavors. It frees the man to produce and secure property. It frees the soul to seek, ask, and knock that life may be found, its questions answered, and the way of life opened to image-bearers of God.
"The training which does not base duty on Christianity is, for us, practically immoral." — R.L. Dabney, On Secular Education
That which does not discipline and instruct in the way of the Lord disciplines and instructs in the way of the demons. That which is not of the Seed of Eve is of the seed of the serpent. The antithesis is everywhere and few subjects better bring this reality to the light than those of education and vocation.
No child left behind is the same as all children held back. None of them are to allowed to advance. That way, none are excluded. They all are stunted together.
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