The first chapter is all about the establishment of the "common" school movement by Horace Mann, considered to be the father of public education. Although claiming to be a Christian, he was a devout Unitarian, a faith that, among many heresies, fundamentally denies the deity of Christ. Furthermore, much of Mann's thinking was steeped in the pseudoscience of phrenology, the study of bumps on people's heads as a gauge of intelligence.
Another agenda-pusher in the public education movement was John Dewey, a signer and contributor to Humanist Manifest I - a statement of beliefs that parallels in many ways the ideologies of the Communist Manifesto. Humanism discounts absolute truth, regards the universe as self-existing, and rejects the authority of God, replacing it with the belief that man defines his own morality.
During this era, humanism found its perfect companion - evolution. Like fuel and fire, these two notions combined to ignite a common philosophy that would be branded into the framework of education. Darwin's "theory of evolution" - an idea that reduces man to an animal, evolved by chance, and denies the biblical account of creation - soon became a regular component of public school science curriculum. Darwin himself admitted, "I am quite conscious that my SPECULATIONS run quite beyond the bounds of true science." Nearly 150 years later, evolution remains an unproven "speculation" full of holes. Nonetheless, it is still taught as FACT in public schools today.
Humanist magazine ran this quote by John Dunphy, "I am convinced that the battle for humankind's future must be waged and won in the public school classroom by teachers that correctly perceive their role as proselytizers of a new faith...the classroom must and will become an arena of conflict between the old and new - the ROTTING CORPSE of Christianity...and the NEW FAITH of humanism."
What! No seriously...read that again! This is what the public school system was founded on!!! Winning the war of the rotting corpse of Christianity with the new faith of humanism. Need any more be said.
Romans 12:2 "Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you many discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect."
2 comments:
That sent a shiver up my spine! Thanks for sharing this.
I am a teacher and also a Christian in Albuquerque, New Mexico. I am not against homeschooling, but not all public schools are bad. You have to be very involved though and I know a lot of parents are not. I think you should have the choice to do either. I know California and Colorado are in a battle right now to retain this right.
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