This is from my recent blog entry.
As they saying goes, knowledge is power. A man who lacks it doesn't know when he is being taken advantage of. The man who lacks it is a slave to those who have it. Am I the only person out here who sees a major conflict of interest in government run education?
First, there is no competition or incentive to boost performance if there is a permanent subsidy in place for it. In a supposed "free market" society, competition is the very thing that produces innovation, new ideas, greater performance, and a better standard of living. American companies are now looking overseas for the best and brightest because we don't produce them over here at the pace of the Chinese. Perhaps it's time to bring some free market reform the the education arena.
Second, the government dictates the curriculum of the class room (who actually learned anything about how the federal reserve functions, or how the bureaucrats waste your tax dollars in order to fatten up their own wallets?). One of Marx's ten planks of communist revolution was centralized control of education. What exactly are our children learning in the class room? Propaganda? Are we being intentionally dumbed down so we don't see the very chains that have been placed around us?
Third (which kind of ties in with point #2), you'll never see a school voucher/choice program in this country because the people in power have everything to lose from one being put in place. Alan Keyes says it all right here with this quote.
"Do we really think that a government-dominated education is going to produce citizens capable of dominating their government, as the education of a truly vigilant self-governing people requires?"
The answer, well it's a no brainer. Of course not. These bureaucrats in DC have a vested interest in keeping you dumbed down. They want to take everything you have from you, redistribute an amount just small enough to keep you voting them back into office, expand the size, scope, and power of government, reap the harvests of your own labor, get rich off your hard earned dollar, and pretend they are doing you a favor by creating more and more welfare programs to go along with every other program/subsidy already in place. If they let the education system fall into the hands of self governing individuals, the power would shift back to the people, and we'd control our government instead of it being the other way around.
This is why the recent California home schooling ban is a threat to the liberty of this entire country. To limit a parent's right to teach their child what they wont teach them in the public schools in this country constitutes as fascism. Make no mistake about it, these bureaucrats, despotic judges, bankers, and leftists involved at the various higher education facilities across this country have an agenda. It's time to pull yourself out of the matrix and free you mind from the things they are trying to teach you. Question authority, think for yourself, free your mind, look at the principles this nation was founded upon, and look at what this nation has become. The truth will set you free, and that truth is that throughout history, there has always been a small group of people looking to take advantage of the masses.
As they saying goes, knowledge is power. A man who lacks it doesn't know when he is being taken advantage of. The man who lacks it is a slave to those who have it. Am I the only person out here who sees a major conflict of interest in government run education?
First, there is no competition or incentive to boost performance if there is a permanent subsidy in place for it. In a supposed "free market" society, competition is the very thing that produces innovation, new ideas, greater performance, and a better standard of living. American companies are now looking overseas for the best and brightest because we don't produce them over here at the pace of the Chinese. Perhaps it's time to bring some free market reform the the education arena.
Second, the government dictates the curriculum of the class room (who actually learned anything about how the federal reserve functions, or how the bureaucrats waste your tax dollars in order to fatten up their own wallets?). One of Marx's ten planks of communist revolution was centralized control of education. What exactly are our children learning in the class room? Propaganda? Are we being intentionally dumbed down so we don't see the very chains that have been placed around us?
Third (which kind of ties in with point #2), you'll never see a school voucher/choice program in this country because the people in power have everything to lose from one being put in place. Alan Keyes says it all right here with this quote.
"Do we really think that a government-dominated education is going to produce citizens capable of dominating their government, as the education of a truly vigilant self-governing people requires?"
The answer, well it's a no brainer. Of course not. These bureaucrats in DC have a vested interest in keeping you dumbed down. They want to take everything you have from you, redistribute an amount just small enough to keep you voting them back into office, expand the size, scope, and power of government, reap the harvests of your own labor, get rich off your hard earned dollar, and pretend they are doing you a favor by creating more and more welfare programs to go along with every other program/subsidy already in place. If they let the education system fall into the hands of self governing individuals, the power would shift back to the people, and we'd control our government instead of it being the other way around.
This is why the recent California home schooling ban is a threat to the liberty of this entire country. To limit a parent's right to teach their child what they wont teach them in the public schools in this country constitutes as fascism. Make no mistake about it, these bureaucrats, despotic judges, bankers, and leftists involved at the various higher education facilities across this country have an agenda. It's time to pull yourself out of the matrix and free you mind from the things they are trying to teach you. Question authority, think for yourself, free your mind, look at the principles this nation was founded upon, and look at what this nation has become. The truth will set you free, and that truth is that throughout history, there has always been a small group of people looking to take advantage of the masses.
