02-10-2020, 08:33 PM
LRRPF52 Wrote:When I read and study John Dewey's life and his thoughts, they are the ramblings of a psycho-babbling philosopher who struggles with sentence structure and coherent thought, while hiding his true feelings and agenda of atheism and service to whomever his "god" really is. He was a unitarian atheist trying to harmonize difference sects of atheism, Darwinian replacement theory for common religious agreement on the origins of man, while still using references to "God" and religion as a means of hopefully moving into a future where people would look at the beliefs of their ancestors as antiquated and irrelevant in terms of science, but still relevant as studies in anthropology.
For these reasons, anytime I see something recommending mandatory training or instruction of whatever the pet subject is at the time to be executed in the repulsive existence of public school, I am doubly-opposed to it with the same fervor that I am for protecting my right to keep and bear arms. I wouldn't blame a pacifist for feeling the same revulsion to the concept of their kids being forced to partake in something they don't want, just as I don't allow the State anywhere near my children on a daily basis when it comes to education or schooling.
What we really need is an educational revolution where our existing brick and mortar schools become skills centers with a buffet approach, with qualified instructors who actually know what they are talking about and can demonstrate competency in teaching anyone who wants to participate in the disciplines they have subject matter mastery of.
Since that would require the vast majority of public school teachers to find different lines of work, it faces an uphill battle, especially considering the power that Teacher's Unions wield over their districts and States at the voting booth. The system is a cancer that has only metastasized throughout American culture and politics, to the extent that 6 generations later, we misperceive it to be a bedrock American institution when it is nothing of the sort.
The problem is, we can't continue to innovate and progress into the 21st Century unless we totally overhaul this abhorrent institution that blemishes the face of our land from sea to shining sea.
My personal solution is to provide a true education to my children at home, which includes familiarity and discipline with arms and measured self-defense. I say "good luck" to you who think you will find favor with the monstrously-illiterate and uneducated "teachers" or administrators in your local districts trying to get firearms instruction anywhere near their precious "new social order" classrooms. There are a handful of high schools with shooting teams still out there, and some areas have actually been increasing their shooting team and shooting discipline participation, so it is a worthwhile cause if you can pull it off.
High School Shooting Team Participation Spiking
That is a great synopsis, one I understand and agree with. That said, we live in a time where elements in the government, academia, sports, social groups and media purposely confuse male and female gender, support for late term abortion, resulting in a baby being left to die, "comfortably" on a cold table. A new bill being pushed by radical communist in government, "which forces the tax payer to pay the transport cost of formerly deported illegal convicted felons back to the US" to be given citizenship, payed housing, food, medical etc. Home schooling is great and one I support 100%. A couple of my good friends did this. I chose to teach my kids to blend in, survive and understand the environment they have to exist in. They have excelled beautifully behind enemy lines, "and were never once drawn to the insanity they were exposed to" keeping the values they were taught. The mind is a computer that will only process what is programmed into it. If left to the system to program young kids, "with out any alternative input" society will collapse and the inevitable will occur. I don't necessarily blame the young people today, "supporting socialism, gun control, unlimited genders, white guilt, predator and environmental worship, etc". I do blame the parents and grandparents, "who failed in their jobs of parenting" by letting the system raise them no matter how insane it became. Without people in the system pushing back, then failure is a forgone conclusion.