Does Historical Evidence Reveal That Public Schools Increase The Need For More Prisons? Part 2.
Bill Haymin
October 04, 2006
Oct 4, 2006
Does historical evidence reveal that public schools increase the need for more prisons? Part 2.
The following questions and comments must be asked and said, even though it might be misunderstood, denied and attacked by many. It has been said in so many different ways already by a multitude of writers, researchers, educators, etc. It will probably continue to be said, until it is addressed by the only legitimate educator, the parents themselves. The "Remedy" is for parents to exit their children from the public school system, or up until parents no longer have the freedom to educate their own children the way that they know is right. The time for trying to reform the system is over! "THE WRITING IS ON THE WALL" if one has the discernment to see it.
It has been said that those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat their failures. But if one is to learn the moral lessons and examples that history teaches, that history needs to be taught in the first place!
Moral: In general, moral denotes something which respects the conduct of men and their relations as social beings whose actions have a bearing on each other's rights and happiness, and are therefore right or wrong, virtuous or vicious...(Noah Webster's 1828 Dictionary)
Should public schools have been allowed to come into existence in the first place?
Were public schools allowed beyond their legitimate role that biblically and logically belong to the parents?
Have Christian parents abdicated their God given responsibility to educate their children by sending them to an illegitimate, unfit, and ungodly immoral system?
Do public schools have ties to the destructive social impact on our culture, by the neglect of spiritual, moral instruction and the fostering of ideologies that are the antithesis of freedom?
Does a lack of character building curriculum in public schools, together with a long since absence of intellectual training ill prepare and handicap our children for life?
These and many more questions have been raised by many informed leaders, educators and people in all walks of life, some of them will be addressed here.
Historical evidence does reveal that public schools have increased the need for more prisons world wide, as has been documented as you read on a little further below.
The public school movement in America, has been responsible for slowly removing the moral and spiritual foundations for any society to long remain stable and free. It is a natural consequence for our disobeying God by allowing "the government" to control education and pretend to"educate"and perform their destructive and insidious social engineering on our children.
There are, without question, many dedicated, well meaning and sincere public school teachers (even Christians). But many (not all) have been sincerely deceived and derailed themselves. They have been trained to further the agenda of those that control the content of what is taught to your children.
Your children are in the temples and churches of the religions of globalism, multiculturalism, extreme environmentalism, humanism, atheism, paganism, etc, etc,.Your offspring are being made the unwittingly brainwashed foot soldiers of those that hate America, every day that they are in public school. The seeds of America's demise, have and are being sown into the hearts and minds of your children, regardless of those that don't agree with this assessment.
When Jesus Christ and the principles of the Christian faith (which liberate and bring true freedom) are removed from ANY education, humanism, atheism, socialism and every other ism and religion, will come in and automatically fill the void. These doctrines will bring slavery and bondage. There is NO neutrality in education, there is NO vacuum. Someone's religion WILL be taught! We must realize that we are fighting a very clever and cunning enemy. That enemy is dressed up in the garb of entrenched and established respectability, and will not willingly give up their power over the hearts and minds of our children!
Most of our elected and unelected masters are producing within each passing generation an ever increasing illiterate and morally degenerate people prepared as willing and dependant slaves for "World Government." We have been intentionally programmed not to have the knowledge and Christian virtues necessary to keep and sustain our liberties and freedoms. We have been dumbed down and brain washed losing the ability to think and learn. We may be in denial, but the evidence is overwhelming to those who have taken the time and effort to read and do the honest research.
The knowledge of the laws of our land, the constitution, and the moral character and will to uphold the sacred laws of God, has been intentionally bred out of us. That has greatly imperiled and put our nation at risk. Most of those in positions of power have made us ripe for tyranny and slavery, ruled by tyrants and dictators.
THE WRITING IS ON THE WALL!
It does not matter if we are a Democrat or Republican. Both major parties for many decades have shown that there is not a thin dimes worth of difference between them, and that they are not worthy of our trust. They are part of Americas problem! They are not likely to reform themselves and the original political system they have sworn to uphold, any time soon.
The people must be educated morally and intellectually together at the same time, and in the same place, in order to produce upright leaders and a government that will protect the people's rights under God. The other alternative is to produce educated criminals, which we already have in abundance.
Only those that are open to learning the truth, who have taken the time to study the roots of public education, and the mischief that our own government has done to us, will truly understand what is written here.
Everyone has an opinion, but their opinions in many cases may not have been informed with the truth. We have been betrayed and deceived by many in government, the courts, media, education, etc; the power centers in our culture. All this, and much more, is a direct result of our gradual deflection into socialism and globalism, the teaching and principles of world government.
American families, and our children, have suffered tremendous damage and loss, by our faith in the Christian God being successfully separated and removed by the public schools of America. Our faith and trust in God, has been taken away by our exposure to the ideas, philosophies and religions being taught in the classroom. The moral and spiritual cohesiveness that held the family and nation together has been all but destroyed. Make no mistake about this we as a nation are in a war for the very soul and life of our nation!!
HISTORICAL EVIDENCE THAT LINK PUBLIC SCHOOLS TO CRIME AND THE NEED TO BUILD PRISONS
Robert L. Dabney, (1820-1898) who was a pastor, educator, writer and profound thinker, documented that the very existence of public schools in America and in other countries, was the reason why there needed to be prisons and more of them built.
Even though the language that Dabney uses is a little archaic, what he says though is very true and insightful, and so much more applicable for our day.
In the book by Robert L. Dabney titled Vol IV "Secular," beginning on page 195, in the chapter titled: "The State Free School System Imposed Upon Virginia By The Underwood Constitution" Dabney writes on April 18, 1876 to W. H. Ruffner, Esq., Superintendent of State Schools:
"We often hear this apology for the State's wholesale intrusion into education advanced with the exactness of a commercial transaction. They say: "it costs less money to build school-houses than jails." But what if it turns out that the State's expenditure in school-house is one of the things which necessitates the expenditure in jails?
The fruits of the system show that such is the result, and hence the plea for the State's
A true story:
intrusion is utterly delusive. The regular result of the kind of education which alone it can give is to PROPAGATE CRIME. [emphasis mine]
Allison's History of Europe states that forty years ago two- thirds of the inhabitants of France could neither read nor write. In Prussia, at the same time, the government had made secular education almost universal, by compelling parents to send their children to school from seven to fourteen years of age. Statistics of the two countries show that serious crime was at that time FOURTEEN TIMES AS PREVALENT [emphasis mine] in intelligent Prussia as in ignorant France - volume V., page 15 of "Allison's History."
Again it has been found from the official records of the 86 departments of France that the amount of crime has, without a single exception, been in proportion to the amount of scholastic instruction given in each.
Again, we are told that much the largest number of the lewd women of Paris come from those departments where there is most instruction.
In Scotland the educated criminals are to the uneducated as FOUR AND A HALF TO ONE" [emphasis mine] ...
Scholastic intellectual instruction and education without the Christian principles of a moral education included and inculcated into every subject, will produce only educated criminals. One cannot separate the two without great mischief being done to the souls of all peoples.]
"M. De Toqueville remarked of the United States that crime increased most rapidly where there was most instruction.
The ancients testify that the moral condition of the "Barbarians" was comparatively pure besides that of the Greeks and Romans, and that the most refined cities were most corrupt.
But let us bring the comparison nearer home. The Northern States of the Union had previously to the war all adopted the system of universal State schools, and the Southern States had not. In 1850 the former had thirteen and a half millions of people, and twenty-three thousand six hundred and sixty-four criminal convictions.
The South ( WITHOUT STATE SCHOOLS ) [emphasis mine] had nine and a half millions, and two thousand nine hundred and twenty-one criminal convictions - that is to say, after allowing for the difference of population, the "educated" masses were something more than six times as criminal as the "uneducated."
The same year the North was supporting 114,700 paupers, and the South 20,500. The "unintelligent" South was something more than four times as well qualified to provide for its own subsistence as the "intelligent" North! But Massachusetts is the native home of the public school in America.
In Boston and its adjacent county the persons in jails, houses of correction or refuge, and in alms-houses bore among the whites the ratio of one to every thirty-four.
(Among the wretched [sic], free blacks it was one to every sixteen.)
In Richmond, the capital of "benighted" Virginia, the same unhappy classes bore the ratio of one to every one hundred and twelve. Such are the lessons of fact. Indeed, it requires only the simplest ocular inspection to convince any observer that economical plea for State schools is illusory.
In the South, State school-houses were unknown, and consequently jails and penitentiaries were on the most confined and humble scale.
The North is studded over with grand and costly public school-houses, and her jails are even more "palatial" in extent and more numerous than they."...
Dabney continues ... "There can be, therefore, no true education without moral culture, and no true moral culture without Christianity. The very power of the teacher in the school-room is either moral or it is degrading, brute force. But the American commonwealth has promised to have no religious character. Then it cannot be teacher. If it undertakes to be, it must be consistent, and go on and unite church and state. Are you ready to follow your opinions to this consistent end?...
"Government is not the creator but the creature of human society. The Government has no mission from God to make the community; on the contrary, the community should make the government. ... The only communities which have had their characters manufactured for them by their Governments have had a villainously bad character... Noble races make their governments; ignoble ones are made by them...
To educate the mind without purifying the heart is but ‘to place a sharp sword in the hand of a madman.'... A little modicum of training which a "common-school" system [called a public school system in our day] can give to the average masses, is utterly trivial and impotent as a means of reversing the child's tendency... The culture and ethics of the "common school" will leave them, after a time, too corrupt and atheistic to recognize the value of morality or its source - the Christian religion... Truth is never out of date... If the American people, after enjoying this be praised system, are so deficient in candor and intelligence that they cannot review and amend wrong action, this is sufficiently convictive [ having the power to convince or convict] of the worthlessness of the plan."...
"In history, ethics, philosophy, jurisprudence, religious facts and propositions are absolutely inseparable. The necessary discipline of a school-room and secular fidelity of teachers call for religion, or we miss of them. And no person nor organism has a right to seem to say to a responsible, immortal soul, "In this large and intelligent and even ethical segment of your doings you are entitled to be GODLESS." [emphasis mine].... It is properly the whole man or
person that is educated; but the main subject of the work is the spirit. Education is the nurture and development of the whole man for his proper end"...
Along with the importance of making sure that our children receive an education that will improve their character. They need to also receive at the same time and place, an education that will prepare our children intellectually. It is impossible to separate, the spiritual/moral from the intellectual, we automatically learn of both at the same time. By omitting the Christian moral/spiritual principles from an education students automatically will be taught atheism by default. All truth is conveyed to the mind and spirit of a person on all levels at the same time. You cannot try to separate them without doing severe damage, corrupting and handicapping our young by trying to teach them in separate places.]
Dabney wrote: "Since the soul is a Monad, [cannot be divided or broken] it cannot be equipped as to different parts at different times and places, as a man might get his hat at one shop and his boots at another; it has no parts. Since all truths converge towards God, he who is not to name God must have all his teachings fragmentary; he can only construct a truncated [Cut off; cut short; maimed], figure.
Dabney continues ... If in a ship the compass be lost and the pilot blind, it is better that there should not be a great force to move her machinery. The more energetic its motion, the greater is the likelihood the ship will speedily be upon the breakers. SURELY THIS IS SUFFICIENT TO SHOW TO THE REFLECTING MIND THAT RIGHT MORAL INCULCATION CANNOT BE SEPARATED AT ANY POINT OR FOR ANY TIME FROM THE INTELLECTUAL, WITHOUT MISCHIEF.".... [emphasis mine]
The "ship" represents the vehicle of the public school system. The "compass" is the Christian principles of morality that will guide and steer the education of the young in the right direction. The "pilot being blind" is the blind and deceived people that make up the educational policies. The "great force" is the Federal and State government's intrusion into education by compulsion on the populace by their "machinery," the machinations of government agencies. "The more energetic its motion," the more anti-Christian principles through the force and power of private malevolent corporations, and philanthropic organizations, etc, through public school education, the greater is the likelihood the "ship" or public school system, "will speedily be upon the breakers."
Well folks, the ship has come in from a long and degenerated journey, and has "speedily been upon the breakers"of destruction. It has been carrying the precious cargo, our drowned young to the bottom of the sea of despair.
"Public education was a bad idea from its inception, and there is no way to build on its philosophically rotten foundation. It is immune to reform. Home schooling and Christian
schools are the only ways for Christian children to be delivered from baleful influence of "educators"... There is simply no other way to do this." Lee Duigon.
How many more national tragedies will our nation have to go through till American's turn to God? The following is just one more example:
Considering Homeschooling Grieves with America
MEDIA ADVISORY, Oct. 3 /Christian Newswire/ – Considering Homeschooling (www.consideringhomeschooling.com) grieves with America's school children and parents. Considering Homeschooling asks that everyone pray for the families of the victims killed and wounded in the three school shootings this week.
"America has lost her innocence; the culture of death is pervasive. Never has there been a time in our nation's history where children have been so vulnerable to violent adults," said Charles B. Lowers, Executive Director of Considering Homeschooling, "Today's bloodshed shows that even the most sacrosanct communities in our land are not safe from the fiends produced by the humanist culture of death."
Considering Homeschooling believes parents must take extraordinary measures to protect their children under the current circumstances and urges all Christian parents who can create a safe, loving, Christ-centered home to consider homeschooling their children today.
Considering Homeschooling was founded by Charles and Kathy Lowers in 2001 to reach Christian parents, not only encouraging Christians to homeschool, but also guiding others nationwide in starting homeschool evangelism groups. The national outreach, which has always been a project of the original Considering Homeschooling flagship group, is based in Southern California and may be the largest homeschool recruitment group for parents of young children in the country.
Christian Newswire
A GOOD EXAMPLE OF AMERICAN CULTURE'S EMBRACE OF MORAL OBFUSCATION OF REALITY
Rediscovering Evil
The TV news anchors were discussing an unspeakably vicious murder that had been committed without provocation. The report was shocking but, unfortunately, the fare we have come to expect on the evening news.
What was different about this exchange was a comment by one of the reporters: "This would almost make you believe that there are some people in this world who are totally evil."...
Hezbollah terrorists deliberately place their missile batteries in heavily populated civilian areas - hospitals, mosques, schools, residences, markets, etc. In so doing, they rain death and destruction on Israel from these locations, then - via television - show the bodies of the Arabs whom they used as human shields, calling them victims of Israeli aggression, thus scoring big in the propaganda department.
Hezbollah has committed atrocities daily against innocent Israelis and Arabs who fell to missiles that were launched with no other intent but to kill whoever was unfortunate enough to be in the line of fire. It was Hezbollah's leader, Hasan Nasrallah, who callously commented after two Arab children were killed by a missile in Nazareth that the missiles were not meant to murder Muslims, only Jews.
At the same time, Islamist terrorists were still strapping bombs on their young people and attempting to send them to their deaths among Israeli civilians. It has been accurately observed, When a Lebanese child is killed. Israel mourns; when an Israeli child is killed, Hezbollah celebrates.
Let's be clear. These terrorists are calculatingly evil, with equally malevolent intentions. We have said many times that if the Axis of Evil wants peace, all it need do is stop the killing. However, wholly evil people live to kill.
All of these stark facts raise a much broader question: Why are Westerners, who should know better, confused and surprised enough to bemoan the situation with statements like "This would almost make you believe that there are some people in this world who are totally evil"?
The answer is easy when our culture embraced the situational ethicists' moral mumbo-jumbo - when nihilists began convincing the unwashed masses that rules and standards are irrelevant and every individual must decide right and wrong according to his or her personal preferences. Their system militantly rejects the biblical, traditional Judeo-Christian standards that regulate human conduct with clear and understandable moral compass.
The challenge is to turn back to the Bible and rediscover what evil and evildoers are all about. (Editorial, "Rediscovering Evil." Sept/Oct 2006 issue of Israel My Glory. Copyright 2006.)
Will Parents Take the Necessary Steps?
By the very act of not including the teaching of moral absolutes that are learned from the Bible, the public schools condemns every child to learn the lessons and their consequences in the school of hard knocks, i.e: prisons, jails, penitentiary's, or the permanent loss of their live's.
I think America maybe entering a time when we will see the Hand of God move in ways not expected.
God doesn't always move immediately. You can't accuse God of being too hasty. But when He does choose to move, it will be obvious that He is trying to reveal our need for His truth. Example: The school shootings and our need to do something morally, spiritually and physically about it. By doing something physical, I mean change the place where our kids are going to be "educated."
God is not causing the problems that we have, only wanting to make us aware that this nation can not simply continue on in the course that we have chosen, without our experiencing the self destructive consequences of our thoughts, belief's and actions.
He doesn't have to do anything, all He has to do is sit back in sorrow and grief and watch us destroy ourselves. We are our own worst enemies!
When will we change the direction we are going? That will depend on how much self inflicted torture, pain and suffering we are tired of experiencing. And our looking to humanistic man and his inept answers that only God can supply!
It has been reliably documented that 85% to 90% of young Christians that finish high school will fall away from the faith. Do we really want to send our children where their faith, morals and intellect will be destroyed?? But that is what the true nature of the system was intended to do, separate our belief in God, family and patriotism from education.
Do we really believe what our learned Christian leaders, educators and researchers are saying about this?? If we do, then we will along with our convictions, put feet to them and do something about it. Or are we in denial??
Are we willing to sacrifice our life style so that our young can be assured of a future?? Are we willing to buy a smaller house or rent an apartment so that our young can get a superior education?? Are we willing to buy a used car so that we have the resources to make sure our progeny are prepared to live life abundantly, or are we so materialistic and not much better than the world??
If we really can't, materially, afford to send our kids to a reliable Christian school, or move to where there is one, will we be responsible and teach our wards at home?? Are we sacrificing our precious vulnerable young to the god of materialism??
How will we feel when we stand before Almighty God and say: we could not afford the time or the expense?? The hour is very, very, late but not too late to DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!! 2 ½ million families have already taken that step and are educating their children at home
One of the best Christian classical schools (in my opinion) that teach the way many of our
founders were educated is: "The Foundation for American Christian Education." www.face.net , P.O. Box 9588, Chesapeake, Virginia 23321-9588, 1-800.352.3223. Request a free New 2006 Catalog.
They have for over 40 years been educating Americans about their unique Christian liberty-heritage as documented in primary sources. Their purpose is to re-arm Americans with: 1) The principles of liberty that formed our nation. 2) A method of education that upholds a standard of credible Christian scholarship. These tools will enable Americans to be Keepers of Liberty. The Foundation equips families with a Biblical foundation for both private life and public citizenship. They train them with a Biblical worldview in every aspect of life - education, social issues, politics, economics, and religion.
If you can't for whatever reason, afford to send them to a private school, you can purchase
their relatively inexpensive books, and teach them at home.
There are other "Principle Approach" and many different, good Christian schools, scattered around the nation.
There are also, many good writers that have educated and informed themselves. In my opinion, one of the best web sites that you simply must treat yourself to, and check out is: www.newswithviews.com They have some of the most informed, self educated, and creatively descriptive Christian writers.
PS: To the one who sent me an e-mail. I apologize for having lost your e-mail address, asking me where I had gotten the statistic: "research shows 94% of home schooled children keep the faith of their parents. But 80-90% of public school Christians lose their faith." Those sources are: Dr James Dobson- 85%, Southern Baptist Convention-88%, Dr Robert Simons of "Citizens Excellence in Education" survey of parents in his group said-94-95%. I'll try to be more careful in the future. I hope this helps a little, Bill.
By Bill Haymin, copyright 2006
Does historical evidence reveal that public schools increase the need for more prisons? Part 2.
The following questions and comments must be asked and said, even though it might be misunderstood, denied and attacked by many. It has been said in so many different ways already by a multitude of writers, researchers, educators, etc. It will probably continue to be said, until it is addressed by the only legitimate educator, the parents themselves. The "Remedy" is for parents to exit their children from the public school system, or up until parents no longer have the freedom to educate their own children the way that they know is right. The time for trying to reform the system is over! "THE WRITING IS ON THE WALL" if one has the discernment to see it.
It has been said that those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat their failures. But if one is to learn the moral lessons and examples that history teaches, that history needs to be taught in the first place!
Moral: In general, moral denotes something which respects the conduct of men and their relations as social beings whose actions have a bearing on each other's rights and happiness, and are therefore right or wrong, virtuous or vicious...(Noah Webster's 1828 Dictionary)
Should public schools have been allowed to come into existence in the first place?
Were public schools allowed beyond their legitimate role that biblically and logically belong to the parents?
Have Christian parents abdicated their God given responsibility to educate their children by sending them to an illegitimate, unfit, and ungodly immoral system?
Do public schools have ties to the destructive social impact on our culture, by the neglect of spiritual, moral instruction and the fostering of ideologies that are the antithesis of freedom?
Does a lack of character building curriculum in public schools, together with a long since absence of intellectual training ill prepare and handicap our children for life?
These and many more questions have been raised by many informed leaders, educators and people in all walks of life, some of them will be addressed here.
Historical evidence does reveal that public schools have increased the need for more prisons world wide, as has been documented as you read on a little further below.
The public school movement in America, has been responsible for slowly removing the moral and spiritual foundations for any society to long remain stable and free. It is a natural consequence for our disobeying God by allowing "the government" to control education and pretend to"educate"and perform their destructive and insidious social engineering on our children.
There are, without question, many dedicated, well meaning and sincere public school teachers (even Christians). But many (not all) have been sincerely deceived and derailed themselves. They have been trained to further the agenda of those that control the content of what is taught to your children.
Your children are in the temples and churches of the religions of globalism, multiculturalism, extreme environmentalism, humanism, atheism, paganism, etc, etc,.Your offspring are being made the unwittingly brainwashed foot soldiers of those that hate America, every day that they are in public school. The seeds of America's demise, have and are being sown into the hearts and minds of your children, regardless of those that don't agree with this assessment.
When Jesus Christ and the principles of the Christian faith (which liberate and bring true freedom) are removed from ANY education, humanism, atheism, socialism and every other ism and religion, will come in and automatically fill the void. These doctrines will bring slavery and bondage. There is NO neutrality in education, there is NO vacuum. Someone's religion WILL be taught! We must realize that we are fighting a very clever and cunning enemy. That enemy is dressed up in the garb of entrenched and established respectability, and will not willingly give up their power over the hearts and minds of our children!
Most of our elected and unelected masters are producing within each passing generation an ever increasing illiterate and morally degenerate people prepared as willing and dependant slaves for "World Government." We have been intentionally programmed not to have the knowledge and Christian virtues necessary to keep and sustain our liberties and freedoms. We have been dumbed down and brain washed losing the ability to think and learn. We may be in denial, but the evidence is overwhelming to those who have taken the time and effort to read and do the honest research.
The knowledge of the laws of our land, the constitution, and the moral character and will to uphold the sacred laws of God, has been intentionally bred out of us. That has greatly imperiled and put our nation at risk. Most of those in positions of power have made us ripe for tyranny and slavery, ruled by tyrants and dictators.
THE WRITING IS ON THE WALL!
It does not matter if we are a Democrat or Republican. Both major parties for many decades have shown that there is not a thin dimes worth of difference between them, and that they are not worthy of our trust. They are part of Americas problem! They are not likely to reform themselves and the original political system they have sworn to uphold, any time soon.
The people must be educated morally and intellectually together at the same time, and in the same place, in order to produce upright leaders and a government that will protect the people's rights under God. The other alternative is to produce educated criminals, which we already have in abundance.
Only those that are open to learning the truth, who have taken the time to study the roots of public education, and the mischief that our own government has done to us, will truly understand what is written here.
Everyone has an opinion, but their opinions in many cases may not have been informed with the truth. We have been betrayed and deceived by many in government, the courts, media, education, etc; the power centers in our culture. All this, and much more, is a direct result of our gradual deflection into socialism and globalism, the teaching and principles of world government.
American families, and our children, have suffered tremendous damage and loss, by our faith in the Christian God being successfully separated and removed by the public schools of America. Our faith and trust in God, has been taken away by our exposure to the ideas, philosophies and religions being taught in the classroom. The moral and spiritual cohesiveness that held the family and nation together has been all but destroyed. Make no mistake about this we as a nation are in a war for the very soul and life of our nation!!
HISTORICAL EVIDENCE THAT LINK PUBLIC SCHOOLS TO CRIME AND THE NEED TO BUILD PRISONS
Robert L. Dabney, (1820-1898) who was a pastor, educator, writer and profound thinker, documented that the very existence of public schools in America and in other countries, was the reason why there needed to be prisons and more of them built.
Even though the language that Dabney uses is a little archaic, what he says though is very true and insightful, and so much more applicable for our day.
In the book by Robert L. Dabney titled Vol IV "Secular," beginning on page 195, in the chapter titled: "The State Free School System Imposed Upon Virginia By The Underwood Constitution" Dabney writes on April 18, 1876 to W. H. Ruffner, Esq., Superintendent of State Schools:
"We often hear this apology for the State's wholesale intrusion into education advanced with the exactness of a commercial transaction. They say: "it costs less money to build school-houses than jails." But what if it turns out that the State's expenditure in school-house is one of the things which necessitates the expenditure in jails?
The fruits of the system show that such is the result, and hence the plea for the State's
A true story:
intrusion is utterly delusive. The regular result of the kind of education which alone it can give is to PROPAGATE CRIME. [emphasis mine]
Allison's History of Europe states that forty years ago two- thirds of the inhabitants of France could neither read nor write. In Prussia, at the same time, the government had made secular education almost universal, by compelling parents to send their children to school from seven to fourteen years of age. Statistics of the two countries show that serious crime was at that time FOURTEEN TIMES AS PREVALENT [emphasis mine] in intelligent Prussia as in ignorant France - volume V., page 15 of "Allison's History."
Again it has been found from the official records of the 86 departments of France that the amount of crime has, without a single exception, been in proportion to the amount of scholastic instruction given in each.
Again, we are told that much the largest number of the lewd women of Paris come from those departments where there is most instruction.
In Scotland the educated criminals are to the uneducated as FOUR AND A HALF TO ONE" [emphasis mine] ...
Scholastic intellectual instruction and education without the Christian principles of a moral education included and inculcated into every subject, will produce only educated criminals. One cannot separate the two without great mischief being done to the souls of all peoples.]
"M. De Toqueville remarked of the United States that crime increased most rapidly where there was most instruction.
The ancients testify that the moral condition of the "Barbarians" was comparatively pure besides that of the Greeks and Romans, and that the most refined cities were most corrupt.
But let us bring the comparison nearer home. The Northern States of the Union had previously to the war all adopted the system of universal State schools, and the Southern States had not. In 1850 the former had thirteen and a half millions of people, and twenty-three thousand six hundred and sixty-four criminal convictions.
The South ( WITHOUT STATE SCHOOLS ) [emphasis mine] had nine and a half millions, and two thousand nine hundred and twenty-one criminal convictions - that is to say, after allowing for the difference of population, the "educated" masses were something more than six times as criminal as the "uneducated."
The same year the North was supporting 114,700 paupers, and the South 20,500. The "unintelligent" South was something more than four times as well qualified to provide for its own subsistence as the "intelligent" North! But Massachusetts is the native home of the public school in America.
In Boston and its adjacent county the persons in jails, houses of correction or refuge, and in alms-houses bore among the whites the ratio of one to every thirty-four.
(Among the wretched [sic], free blacks it was one to every sixteen.)
In Richmond, the capital of "benighted" Virginia, the same unhappy classes bore the ratio of one to every one hundred and twelve. Such are the lessons of fact. Indeed, it requires only the simplest ocular inspection to convince any observer that economical plea for State schools is illusory.
In the South, State school-houses were unknown, and consequently jails and penitentiaries were on the most confined and humble scale.
The North is studded over with grand and costly public school-houses, and her jails are even more "palatial" in extent and more numerous than they."...
Dabney continues ... "There can be, therefore, no true education without moral culture, and no true moral culture without Christianity. The very power of the teacher in the school-room is either moral or it is degrading, brute force. But the American commonwealth has promised to have no religious character. Then it cannot be teacher. If it undertakes to be, it must be consistent, and go on and unite church and state. Are you ready to follow your opinions to this consistent end?...
"Government is not the creator but the creature of human society. The Government has no mission from God to make the community; on the contrary, the community should make the government. ... The only communities which have had their characters manufactured for them by their Governments have had a villainously bad character... Noble races make their governments; ignoble ones are made by them...
To educate the mind without purifying the heart is but ‘to place a sharp sword in the hand of a madman.'... A little modicum of training which a "common-school" system [called a public school system in our day] can give to the average masses, is utterly trivial and impotent as a means of reversing the child's tendency... The culture and ethics of the "common school" will leave them, after a time, too corrupt and atheistic to recognize the value of morality or its source - the Christian religion... Truth is never out of date... If the American people, after enjoying this be praised system, are so deficient in candor and intelligence that they cannot review and amend wrong action, this is sufficiently convictive [ having the power to convince or convict] of the worthlessness of the plan."...
"In history, ethics, philosophy, jurisprudence, religious facts and propositions are absolutely inseparable. The necessary discipline of a school-room and secular fidelity of teachers call for religion, or we miss of them. And no person nor organism has a right to seem to say to a responsible, immortal soul, "In this large and intelligent and even ethical segment of your doings you are entitled to be GODLESS." [emphasis mine].... It is properly the whole man or
person that is educated; but the main subject of the work is the spirit. Education is the nurture and development of the whole man for his proper end"...
Along with the importance of making sure that our children receive an education that will improve their character. They need to also receive at the same time and place, an education that will prepare our children intellectually. It is impossible to separate, the spiritual/moral from the intellectual, we automatically learn of both at the same time. By omitting the Christian moral/spiritual principles from an education students automatically will be taught atheism by default. All truth is conveyed to the mind and spirit of a person on all levels at the same time. You cannot try to separate them without doing severe damage, corrupting and handicapping our young by trying to teach them in separate places.]
Dabney wrote: "Since the soul is a Monad, [cannot be divided or broken] it cannot be equipped as to different parts at different times and places, as a man might get his hat at one shop and his boots at another; it has no parts. Since all truths converge towards God, he who is not to name God must have all his teachings fragmentary; he can only construct a truncated [Cut off; cut short; maimed], figure.
Dabney continues ... If in a ship the compass be lost and the pilot blind, it is better that there should not be a great force to move her machinery. The more energetic its motion, the greater is the likelihood the ship will speedily be upon the breakers. SURELY THIS IS SUFFICIENT TO SHOW TO THE REFLECTING MIND THAT RIGHT MORAL INCULCATION CANNOT BE SEPARATED AT ANY POINT OR FOR ANY TIME FROM THE INTELLECTUAL, WITHOUT MISCHIEF.".... [emphasis mine]
The "ship" represents the vehicle of the public school system. The "compass" is the Christian principles of morality that will guide and steer the education of the young in the right direction. The "pilot being blind" is the blind and deceived people that make up the educational policies. The "great force" is the Federal and State government's intrusion into education by compulsion on the populace by their "machinery," the machinations of government agencies. "The more energetic its motion," the more anti-Christian principles through the force and power of private malevolent corporations, and philanthropic organizations, etc, through public school education, the greater is the likelihood the "ship" or public school system, "will speedily be upon the breakers."
Well folks, the ship has come in from a long and degenerated journey, and has "speedily been upon the breakers"of destruction. It has been carrying the precious cargo, our drowned young to the bottom of the sea of despair.
"Public education was a bad idea from its inception, and there is no way to build on its philosophically rotten foundation. It is immune to reform. Home schooling and Christian
schools are the only ways for Christian children to be delivered from baleful influence of "educators"... There is simply no other way to do this." Lee Duigon.
How many more national tragedies will our nation have to go through till American's turn to God? The following is just one more example:
Considering Homeschooling Grieves with America
MEDIA ADVISORY, Oct. 3 /Christian Newswire/ – Considering Homeschooling (www.consideringhomeschooling.com) grieves with America's school children and parents. Considering Homeschooling asks that everyone pray for the families of the victims killed and wounded in the three school shootings this week.
"America has lost her innocence; the culture of death is pervasive. Never has there been a time in our nation's history where children have been so vulnerable to violent adults," said Charles B. Lowers, Executive Director of Considering Homeschooling, "Today's bloodshed shows that even the most sacrosanct communities in our land are not safe from the fiends produced by the humanist culture of death."
Considering Homeschooling believes parents must take extraordinary measures to protect their children under the current circumstances and urges all Christian parents who can create a safe, loving, Christ-centered home to consider homeschooling their children today.
Considering Homeschooling was founded by Charles and Kathy Lowers in 2001 to reach Christian parents, not only encouraging Christians to homeschool, but also guiding others nationwide in starting homeschool evangelism groups. The national outreach, which has always been a project of the original Considering Homeschooling flagship group, is based in Southern California and may be the largest homeschool recruitment group for parents of young children in the country.
Christian Newswire
A GOOD EXAMPLE OF AMERICAN CULTURE'S EMBRACE OF MORAL OBFUSCATION OF REALITY
Rediscovering Evil
The TV news anchors were discussing an unspeakably vicious murder that had been committed without provocation. The report was shocking but, unfortunately, the fare we have come to expect on the evening news.
What was different about this exchange was a comment by one of the reporters: "This would almost make you believe that there are some people in this world who are totally evil."...
Hezbollah terrorists deliberately place their missile batteries in heavily populated civilian areas - hospitals, mosques, schools, residences, markets, etc. In so doing, they rain death and destruction on Israel from these locations, then - via television - show the bodies of the Arabs whom they used as human shields, calling them victims of Israeli aggression, thus scoring big in the propaganda department.
Hezbollah has committed atrocities daily against innocent Israelis and Arabs who fell to missiles that were launched with no other intent but to kill whoever was unfortunate enough to be in the line of fire. It was Hezbollah's leader, Hasan Nasrallah, who callously commented after two Arab children were killed by a missile in Nazareth that the missiles were not meant to murder Muslims, only Jews.
At the same time, Islamist terrorists were still strapping bombs on their young people and attempting to send them to their deaths among Israeli civilians. It has been accurately observed, When a Lebanese child is killed. Israel mourns; when an Israeli child is killed, Hezbollah celebrates.
Let's be clear. These terrorists are calculatingly evil, with equally malevolent intentions. We have said many times that if the Axis of Evil wants peace, all it need do is stop the killing. However, wholly evil people live to kill.
All of these stark facts raise a much broader question: Why are Westerners, who should know better, confused and surprised enough to bemoan the situation with statements like "This would almost make you believe that there are some people in this world who are totally evil"?
The answer is easy when our culture embraced the situational ethicists' moral mumbo-jumbo - when nihilists began convincing the unwashed masses that rules and standards are irrelevant and every individual must decide right and wrong according to his or her personal preferences. Their system militantly rejects the biblical, traditional Judeo-Christian standards that regulate human conduct with clear and understandable moral compass.
The challenge is to turn back to the Bible and rediscover what evil and evildoers are all about. (Editorial, "Rediscovering Evil." Sept/Oct 2006 issue of Israel My Glory. Copyright 2006.)
Will Parents Take the Necessary Steps?
By the very act of not including the teaching of moral absolutes that are learned from the Bible, the public schools condemns every child to learn the lessons and their consequences in the school of hard knocks, i.e: prisons, jails, penitentiary's, or the permanent loss of their live's.
I think America maybe entering a time when we will see the Hand of God move in ways not expected.
God doesn't always move immediately. You can't accuse God of being too hasty. But when He does choose to move, it will be obvious that He is trying to reveal our need for His truth. Example: The school shootings and our need to do something morally, spiritually and physically about it. By doing something physical, I mean change the place where our kids are going to be "educated."
God is not causing the problems that we have, only wanting to make us aware that this nation can not simply continue on in the course that we have chosen, without our experiencing the self destructive consequences of our thoughts, belief's and actions.
He doesn't have to do anything, all He has to do is sit back in sorrow and grief and watch us destroy ourselves. We are our own worst enemies!
When will we change the direction we are going? That will depend on how much self inflicted torture, pain and suffering we are tired of experiencing. And our looking to humanistic man and his inept answers that only God can supply!
It has been reliably documented that 85% to 90% of young Christians that finish high school will fall away from the faith. Do we really want to send our children where their faith, morals and intellect will be destroyed?? But that is what the true nature of the system was intended to do, separate our belief in God, family and patriotism from education.
Do we really believe what our learned Christian leaders, educators and researchers are saying about this?? If we do, then we will along with our convictions, put feet to them and do something about it. Or are we in denial??
Are we willing to sacrifice our life style so that our young can be assured of a future?? Are we willing to buy a smaller house or rent an apartment so that our young can get a superior education?? Are we willing to buy a used car so that we have the resources to make sure our progeny are prepared to live life abundantly, or are we so materialistic and not much better than the world??
If we really can't, materially, afford to send our kids to a reliable Christian school, or move to where there is one, will we be responsible and teach our wards at home?? Are we sacrificing our precious vulnerable young to the god of materialism??
How will we feel when we stand before Almighty God and say: we could not afford the time or the expense?? The hour is very, very, late but not too late to DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!! 2 ½ million families have already taken that step and are educating their children at home
One of the best Christian classical schools (in my opinion) that teach the way many of our
founders were educated is: "The Foundation for American Christian Education." www.face.net , P.O. Box 9588, Chesapeake, Virginia 23321-9588, 1-800.352.3223. Request a free New 2006 Catalog.
They have for over 40 years been educating Americans about their unique Christian liberty-heritage as documented in primary sources. Their purpose is to re-arm Americans with: 1) The principles of liberty that formed our nation. 2) A method of education that upholds a standard of credible Christian scholarship. These tools will enable Americans to be Keepers of Liberty. The Foundation equips families with a Biblical foundation for both private life and public citizenship. They train them with a Biblical worldview in every aspect of life - education, social issues, politics, economics, and religion.
If you can't for whatever reason, afford to send them to a private school, you can purchase
their relatively inexpensive books, and teach them at home.
There are other "Principle Approach" and many different, good Christian schools, scattered around the nation.
There are also, many good writers that have educated and informed themselves. In my opinion, one of the best web sites that you simply must treat yourself to, and check out is: www.newswithviews.com They have some of the most informed, self educated, and creatively descriptive Christian writers.
PS: To the one who sent me an e-mail. I apologize for having lost your e-mail address, asking me where I had gotten the statistic: "research shows 94% of home schooled children keep the faith of their parents. But 80-90% of public school Christians lose their faith." Those sources are: Dr James Dobson- 85%, Southern Baptist Convention-88%, Dr Robert Simons of "Citizens Excellence in Education" survey of parents in his group said-94-95%. I'll try to be more careful in the future. I hope this helps a little, Bill.
By Bill Haymin, copyright 2006
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