LeSellers July 2, 2013 at 8:50 am You’re totally wrong. There were no government-run, tax-funded welfare schools when Jefferson was alive, at least not like those we have today, in the few places they existed at all. There was no requirement that parents send their children to school as there is today. “Compulsory attendance” laws (notice, they’re not “compulsory learning” laws) were not a feature of schools until the 1850s in Massachusetts, after which government saw the power in controlling children’s minds, and all states, by 1912, had those satanic laws. I say “satanic laws” because when Horace Mann (the self-anointed “father of American public education” — hard to be the father of something that already existed) imported his schools from Prussia in 1852, his goal was to divorce children from their parents and even more to divorce them from their parents’ religion and religious values. Those are the words his wife, Mary Peabody Mann, attributed to him in her loving biography Horace Mann: A life. Later, he lamented that while there were thousands of Christian churches in Ohio, there was but one Unitarian society. Mann was also proud of the fact that his schools were based on science. He was a great devoté of the famous German scientist, Franz Joseph Gall, whose field of study was phrenology. Yes, folks, your children are in schools established by a man who thought he was superior and your children inferior because of the lumps on their heads. And, speaking of science in the grtf-welfare schools, William Torrey, the US commissioner of Education in the 1890s (also a wealthy industrialist) told his cronies that they need not worry about people getting so well educated they would not be good (meaning docile) workers. Why? Because the grtf-welfare schools were “scientifically designed” so the student would never have a thought that was not allowed to him. They would, thus, never imagine being anything but workers. And, flitting briefly back to Satan, John Dewey, signatory of the first “Humanist Manifesto”, bragged to his salon crowd, “What can they do with their one hour each week of Sunday School when we have them every day for six hours? Now, your vacuous jab at our understanding of the Constitution was as void as your knowledge of the Document. There is not the slightest mention of education or schools therein. The federal government has no legitimate role in defining, controlling, coordinating, limiting, supporting, nor anything else regarding education of schools. The entirety of the Department of Education is unconstitutional. We can say this because, unless the power is explicitly granted in the Document, Congress (nor the executive) has the power to meddle in the question. Further, since the only requirement to become a state (or remain one) is that the state government be a republic, the fact that many or most states have a “Blaine Amendment” in their constitutions is also unconstitutional. Why? Because the federal government forced most states joining the union after about 1850 to include that provision in their organic laws. In Utah, for instance, that was one of the two big questions (and the last resolved) that kept Utah from becoming a state until 1896. Most people believe it was “Plural Marriage” among the “Mormons”, but that issue was settled in 1890. The grtf-welfare school problem was the one Congress rammed down their throats and it took six years to accomplish (longer when you consider that the effort to do so started about 1863). Other states had similar confrontations with the feds on the matter. In Massachusetts in 1882 (three decades after Mann’s abomination), the children of Barnswell (or Barnstable, I keep forgetting which) were forced, at point of bayonet, past the private schools they had been attending to the grtf-welfare school. In Oregon, in the early XX, the state passed a law dissolving all private schools and coercing children into the grtf-welfare schools. The law was the brainchild of the Democrats of the Ku Klux Klan, who had also designed the curriculum. One is free to imagine what history and literature the children would have been required to study, including black children, Jewish children, Italian, Irish, Chinese, and other non-Anglo children. It was only the SCotuS opinion in Pierce v. Society of Sisters that saved Oregonians from that disaster. According to the court, children do not belong to the state, and parents cannot be forced to surrender them to the state’s indoctrination centers. The Oregon situation also shows us that political control of education/indoctrination of children can swing to and fro, depending on who has the reins of power in the state or federal government. In the 1850s, the Rev R.L. Dabney warned Christians that the same tools (grtf-welfare schools and compulsory attendance) they were counting on to make “good little Americans” out of Irish and Italian Catholic and “Mormon” children (meaning convert them to Protestantism) would one day be turned on them, and that they would regret having ever supported the take over of the minds of children. that day is today, and has been since the mid XX, or earlier. Finally, returning to your original point, the literacy rate in USmerica was much higher in the early decades of the federal republic than it is today. There were no grtf-welfare schools as we know them, yet Touqueville, in his 1830s masterpiece, Democracy in America, was fascinated by several things. Among them was the number of profitable newspapers (which requires a large literate public) in even the smallest of towns. (In the 1840s, a small town in Illinois had four, and the city up the road had upwards of six, two published by the same people. Paris, at the other end, had only three or four.) Second was the fact that on the most remote farms, people were always current on the goings on of the town, the state, and the country. They read the Bible fluently, and could discuss religion in detail. Most people could quote lengthy passages, and did so as part of their community discourse, including political speech. The average formal education, meaning the number of years of school, was less than three. So, even if we assume that there were grtf-welfare schools in the early days of the republic (a fact I do not accept), they are doing a far poorer job of educating than they once did. The functional literacy rate in USmerica is less than 50%, and the numeracy rate is lower still. And that’s with a huge number of people graduated from college (where we assume, without much basis, that they can read and cipher), and an even larger fraction graduated from high school, and a still larger number who’ve attended the Youth Indoctrination Camps for at least ten years. Your assertion is false. But, even if we ignore reality and put up with the lie, the fact is USmerica is less literate now than before there was widespread “education” forced onto children and their parents. Mr. O’bama, will there ever be any Jobs?
Posted on: Tue, 02 Jul 2013 14:45:34 +0000
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