Our culture is in a steep moral decline-a decline that has been made possible by the gradual and fundamental transformation that has taken place in our children’s minds via the taxpayer funded
public school system. Over the centuries we have been warned by Christian leaders and theologians not to fall into the trap of a government-sponsored, tax-subsidized system of public education. Regrettably, their warning only served to slow down the process at best or was completely ignored at worst.
One of such warnings came in the year 1887 from Dr. Archibald Hodge, professor at Princeton Seminary, who said, “I am as sure as I am of the fact of Christ’s reign, that a comprehensive and centralized system of national education, separated from religion, as is now commonly proposed, will prove the most appalling enginery for the propagation of anti-Christian and atheistic unbelief, and of anti-social nihilistic ethics, individual, social, and political, which this sin-rent world has ever seen.” Could this be the reason why the framers of the Constitution did not prescribe the federal government to be in charge of the education of our children?
For the first 220 years of American history (from 1620 to around 1840), we had a fully private, Christian, parochial, and home school model for educating our children. Children excelled in this system, where parents, guardians, tutors and the church were the overseers of what went into the minds and souls of the youngsters. As a result, America was built by men and women with a strong ad rich academic foundation and a forged Christian character, who revered God and gave Him precedence in every area of society and government. As a nation, America was led by Biblical principles. God’s blessings were abundantly poured over the young nation and it quickly became the “shining city on a hill,” the indisputable principal world-wide leader in all aspects of life and governance.
This education model stood until 1840, when Horace Mann, inspired by the government run education model he discovered in Prussia, established the first public-school K-12 model in Massachusetts; it spread surprisingly quickly throughout the country and by 1900 it became the new main education model in the United States.
His successor, the openly Marxist and atheist John Dewey, took on Mann’s mantel and brought it to the next level. Dewey attempted to redefine God. He said that God was not a supernatural being, but community, ideals, whatever made people want to strive to be their best. In 1916 he wrote the book Democracy and Education which essentially eliminates God from the equation and elevates the concept of progressive education.
As these ideas began to infiltrate the public school system, we have seen a progressive decline of America’s moral fiber and character. The tactics of the Left against America have been well crafted and subtle. One idea here, another one there, until an entire new and atheistic worldview is developed in children’s minds, replacing traditional values, introducing fake science as factual and calling that which is good, evil, and that which is evil, good. All this, in addition to the concurrent academic dumbing down that makes most children now incapable of reading and solving even the simplest mathematical equation.
All the while, parents and Christians leaders were in a deep sleep, making the wrong assumptions about the quality and content of the ‘education’ the children were receiving. We are now harshly awakened to the fact that the so-called public ‘schools’ have been deliberately and steadily indoctrinating our kids on immoral and dangerous Marxist values. Our children now struggle and sadly, most succumb to the indoctrination. All we have to do is look around and read—not in the main stream, fake media, of course— about the staggering rates of teen and even child suicide and mental health issues plaguing our nation today.
And make no mistake, the Common Core curriculum may not be referred to by that name any longer, but its ‘standards’ continue to be alive and well. No new standards have been written. The common core standards continue to be taught in K-12 government schools and include social ideologies such as the Critical Race Theory among other destructive teachings.
Another fact to bear in mind is that any school, private or Christian, that receives state or federal funding is required to teach to the standards. The money comes with strings attached.
Abraham Lincoln understood it clearly when he said: “The philosophy of the classroom in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.”
How could it be possible for a government to institutionalize gay marriage, propose transgender protections, attempt to legalize pedophilia and trample over parental rights? It’s simple: by the steady brainwashing of the minds of children over time, who one day become the teachers, political, economic and even religious leaders in the nation.
If there’s any hope for America, it is up to conservatives and Christians to take a stand to restore the values that once made this country a beacon of hope and an inspiration to the world. But time is short. While the answer to this enormous problem is complex —and may take many, many years to correct—one thing is clear, as author Alex Newman wrote: the public- school building is on fire: Get your children out, now!
Lizzy Cohen