Why our Schools teach Socialism and Attack Christianity

[Paul of Eugene OR]

What on earth are you talking about?

About being anti-liberal and defining liberal as government involvement.

 

[Belk]

About being anti-liberal and defining liberal as government involvement.

Then I suggest you quote Thursday as he is the one who believes liberal is synonymous with socialism.

 

[FreeinChrist]

Many believe exactly like that, however.

No, I don't agree.

 

[dgiharris]

Marxism and Humanism are the predominant philosophies of America's education establishment

Based on your rant I'm not sure you even know what it is you are complaining about. For instance, here is the definition of Humanism.

Humanism is a philosophical and ethical stance that emphasizes the value and agency of human beings, individually and collectively, and affirms their ability to improve their lives through the use of reason and ingenuity as opposed to submitting blindly to tradition and authority or sinking into cruelty and brutality.

Could you please explain to me what is so bad about humanism?

Secondly, schools don't promote a philosophy. THey simply teach the various bits of knowledge we've manage to accumulate over the past few thousand years. This will include things you agree with and things you do not agree with.

Lastly, it is laughable you think Marxism is the predominant philosophy taught. And to be fair, a lot of the problems we are having in our Western society is predicted by Marxism.

The reason why Capitalism is awesome is not owed to repressing opposing viewpoints. On paper, Communism is a superior form of government. It's just that in reality, due to the "Self Interest" aspect of human nature, communism doesn't work as well with humans as it does with ants.

Our schools are filled with sex education

If by "filled" with sex education you mean two 30-minute classes in the 6th grade, 8th grade, and 10th grade on sex education then yeah, schools are just overflowing with sex education. (I mean the classes are taught only once per year, so less than 0.01% of the students time is spent on sex education) Also, I know you may find looking at actual facts and data painful but I thought you should see this

Our schools are filled with sex education, political correctness, environmental extremism, global unity, diversity training (pro-gay indoctrination), and "higher-order thinking skills" boldly claiming that, in order to become a higher order thinker, one must first believe absolutely that there are no absolutes!

I have no idea how it is even possible to vilify and indemnify and make "wrong" such honorable concepts as those above.

I have found the above one of the best brainwashing techniques employed by the Extreme right wing.

You take an honorable or good trait and you turn it negative and make it evil. I love your parenthesis next to diversity training (pro gay indoctrination). What exactly does that entail by the way? Does that entail a 10 hour marathon session of gay inappropriate content followed up by compulsory gay acts you must complete with a same sex partner they assign you from a random drawing. THAT WOULD BE PRO-GAY INDOCTRINATION. But no, that isn't what you mean. What you mean is simply being told, "Hey, gays are people to and should be treated with respect and equality under the law".

And to you, THAT is pro-gay indoctrination.

And political correctness? Is respecting other people's feelings and varying situations a bad thing? Sure, taken to an extreme I can agree with that. But basic human common sense courtesy? How is that a bad thing?

And Environmental Extremism? You mean, the environmental extremism that says burning millions of tons of coal per day and spilling billions of gallons of oil in the ocean every year isn't a good thing? You mean that extremism? The extremism that says using technology to come up with cleaner alternative energy sources is better than burning non-renewable cancer causing pollutants?

and "higher-order thinking skills" boldly claiming that, in order to become a higher order thinker

You mean, higher order thinking skills that says, "Hey, use facts and data when developing your beliefs and opinions..."

one must first believe absolutely that there are no absolutes!

Do you know why mankind spent so long in the dark ages?

If we could go back in time 50,000 years and kidnap a human being, do you know that mentally that human being would be no different from you or I?

So why did it take so long for us to develop technology, etc?

Because for the most part, we did not challenge any beliefs. We had no scientific method. Opening and expanding ones mind involves challenging your beliefs about everything. If what you believe is true, then it will survive the challenge. I am Christian not because my parents shielded me from all other viewpoints. No, I'm Christian because i saw everything out there in the world and then still choose to be Christian.

Your mindset is just so ignorant, and I don't mean that as an insult. I'm speaking literally. You simply just don't have any knowledge on this subject and you don't know what you are talking about.

Reminds me of one of my favorite quotes I heard from a wise old man making fun of someone who wouldn't listen. He said parodying the other man, "I know what I know and don't confuse me with that facts!"

 

[Gadarene]

This massive social engineering was carried out under the banners of "reform" and "social justice." These innovations are in the public interest, Americans were told. They promote true democracy, humanitarianism, and, of course are "for the children." The buzzwords of socialism were and still are "social" and "democracy" (i.e. social science, social studies and socialization of the child).

"Social justice" was coined by a Catholic.

*tedious Gish Gallop of quotes from leftist educators*

Are there no right-wing educators? If I cherry pick a dozen notable ones, does that mean education is really a right-wing plot?

Bureaucrats, politicians and educators regularly appear on television blaming either parents or lack of funds for the failure of our schools. Their prescription is always the same: more money and more government control. For well over 50 years, American voters have fallen for these fallacies. Victor Gollancz, a famous socialist publisher, explained why he believed that socialism would take over America: "Christians are not exactly bright, so it will be easy for socialism to lead them down the garden path through their ideals of brotherly love and 'social justice.'"

I doubt it would ever be as simple as that, but Gollancz evidently didn't factor in many Christians' stupendous levels of hypocrisy and willingness to cherry-pick their own texts.

 

[Shiloh Raven]

"Social justice" was coined by a Catholic.

I learn something new everyday.

 

[Nehemiah4Ahaya]

Marxism and Humanism are the predominant philosophies of America's education establishment, yet every day we send the public schools our most precious gift, our children, to be "educated."

Our schools are filled with sex education, political correctness, environmental extremism, global unity, diversity training (pro-gay indoctrination), and "higher-order thinking skills" boldly claiming that, in order to become a higher order thinker, one must first believe absolutely that there are no absolutes!

Our schools are filled with violence, murder, extortion, rape, unwanted pregnancy, drug use, disrespect, and foul language. Test scores have been declining for decades as the numbers of children who cannot read continue to increase.

While the pontificators wonder why this is so, many parents and citizens have figured it out. Although earth worship, paganism and the occult flourish in public schools, the Greatest Story Ever Told, based on the greatest book ever written, the Holy Bible, which tells of the greatest teacher who ever lived, Jesus Christ, is not used or even allowed. The Bible was America's first textbook, but today it is referred to as a collection of fables.

America's educational system began to decline with the introduction of socialism, given impetus by the increasing involvement of the federal government. Lenin said: "Communism is socialism in a hurry." Socialism, therefore, is Communism by gradualism rather than by revolution. The socialist "Fabian Society," forerunner of most socialist groups in America, had as its motto "Make Haste Slowly."

"Democratic socialism" became the battle cry for socializing the United States. The goal was to "permeate and penetrate," then control from within. The socialists' first target was education, and they attacked with deceitful language. There were no badges or socialist labels; followers described themselves as "liberal," "progressive," and even "moderate." Words were the weapon of choice in this new war. By changing the meanings of words, socialists concealed their true purpose.

This massive social engineering was carried out under the banners of "reform" and "social justice." These innovations are in the public interest, Americans were told. They promote true democracy, humanitarianism, and, of course are "for the children." The buzzwords of socialism were and still are "social" and "democracy" (i.e. social science, social studies and socialization of the child).

In the early 1900s, unrest in Europe brought thousands of socialists to America. Many held degrees in psychology, sociology and psychiatry (the behavioral sciences) and a number of them became university professors.

Norman Thomas, a socialist and member of the American Civil Liberties Union, boldly told the world: "The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism, but under the name of liberalism, they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program until one day America will be a socialist nation without ever knowing how it happened."

John Dewey, known as "the father of modern education," was an avowed socialist and the co-author of the "Humanist Manifesto." The U.S. House Committee on Un-American Activities discovered that he belonged to 15 Marxist front organizations. Dewey taught the professors who trained America's teachers. Obsessed with "the group," he said, "You can't make socialists out of individualists. Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society, which is coming, where everyone is interdependent."

Author Rosalie Gordon, writing about Dewey's progressive (socialist) education in her book What's Happened To Our Schools, said: "The progressive system has reached all the way down to the lowest grades to prepare the children of America for their role as the collectivists of the future. The group - not the individual child - is the quintessence of progressivism. The child must always be made to feel part of the group. He must indulge in group thinking and group activity."

After visiting the Soviet Union, Dewey wrote six articles on the "wonders" of Soviet education. The School-To-Work program, now in our public schools in all 50 states, is modeled after the Soviet poly-technical system.

In 1936, the National Education Association stated the position from which it has never wavered: "We stand for socializing the individual." The NEA, in its Policy For American Education, opined: "The major problem of education in our times arises out of the fact that we live in a period of fundamental social change. In the new democracy [what happened to our republic?], education must share in the responsibility of giving purpose and direction to social change. The major function of the school is the social orientation of the individual . . . Education must operate according to a well-formulated social policy."

NEA specialist Paul Haubner, tells us, "The schools cannot allow parents to influence the kind of values-education their children receive in school; . that is what is wrong with those who say there is a universal system of values. Our goals are incompatible with theirs. We must change their values."

Chester M. Pierce, M.D., Professor of Education and Psychiatry at Harvard, had this to say: "Every child in America entering school at the age of five is mentally ill because he comes to school with certain allegiances to our Founding Fathers, toward our elected officials, toward his parents, toward a belief in a supernatural being, and toward the sovereignty of this nation as a separate entity. It's up to you as teachers to make all these sick children well - by creating the international child of the future."

Some politicians agree. Former Nebraska state senator Peter Hoagland said: "Fundamentalist parents have no right to indoctrinate their children in their beliefs. We are preparing their children for the year 2000 and life in a global one-world society and those children will not fit in."

In the Humanist Magazine, Jan./Feb 1983, John Dunphy wrote: "The battle for mankind's future must be waged and won in the public school classroom . The classroom must and will become the arena of conflict between the old and the new . the rotting corpse of Christianity and the new faith of humanism."

Bureaucrats, politicians and educators regularly appear on television blaming either parents or lack of funds for the failure of our schools. Their prescription is always the same: more money and more government control. For well over 50 years, American voters have fallen for these fallacies. Victor Gollancz, a famous socialist publisher, explained why he believed that socialism would take over America: "Christians are not exactly bright, so it will be easy for socialism to lead them down the garden path through their ideals of brotherly love and 'social justice.'"

It's time for Christians to stand up for their families and their faith and put God in charge of this nation and its schools. Restoring America is that simple.

Why Our Schools Teach Socialism -- September 2001 Education Reporter

I agree. School was a joke. There's a reason why they took prayer out of the schools. They teach everything intellectual but God is taken out of the picture. Funny how something that was told to be put first, is not even put last in schools, but not put at all. No wonder why so many people come out of there confused. I mean...I know I did. Didn't help that I grew up with a personality disorder because of a ruined childhood. Fragmented upbringing=fragmented grown up. So I didn't have faith in the curriculum. So how could I have possibly had faith in God, who at the time, I didn't even think about? My bitterness towards authority as a teenager caused me to rebel against my parents, AND God. I got into all types of new age thought ideas that I learned later down the road were ultimately false teachings of Satan. But the school never addressed this to me. All they saw was an apathetic student who didn't stand for the pledge or participate. But they never mentioned salvation through Jesus Christ. Not once. But they were quick to say that I was just simply "not participating" while yet, promoting the idea that you could just believe in anything! Yep, that's the catalyst for destruction for sure. School is definitely the wide road that leads to destruction. Not to say that you can't use it to find a career for income or for Fiat notes. All I'm saying is, if your looking for your soul, school won't help you. All it did for me was worsen my depression and fragmented soul.

 

[dmmesdale]

As i understand sex ed was added to the curriculum in the 50s because they weren't learning it at home.
The opening scene in the movie Carrie where she gets her menstrual and does not have a clue has a basis in reality. It was a failure of the mother, not the school. Schools bus, feed, make provisions to watch children after school for working parents. Counselors, psychologists; If this poster thinks it is all so bad they can always volunteer at their public school and be part of the solution as opposed to another outside barker. Get yer behind in there and do some one on one with a student who needs your help. There is boys scouts girls scouts, sports all the time. Currently baseball. Advanced education where student can graduate with up to two years college completed. Know how much money and time that saves students in tuition costs alone?

The Ever Increasing Burden on America’s Public Schools (Print Version) | Jamie Vollmer

In the 1990s, we added:.

• Conflict resolution and peer mediation
• HIV/AIDS education
• CPR training
• Death education
• America 2000 initiatives (Republican)
• Inclusion
• Expanded computer and internet education
• Distance learning
• Tech Prep and School to Work programs
• Technical Adequacy
• Assessment
• Post-secondary enrollment options
• Concurrent enrollment options
• Goals 2000 initiatives (Democratic)
• Expanded Talented and Gifted opportunities
• At risk and dropout prevention
• Homeless education (including causes and effects on children)
• Gang education (urban centers)
• Service learning
• Bus safety, bicycle safety, gun safety, and water safety education