"The Corruption in Education That Brainwashes Your
Kids!"
from "In Defense of Rural
America"
By Ron
Ewart, President
National Association of Rural
Landowners
and
nationally recognized author and speaker on freedom and property rights
issues.
© Copyright Sunday, January
25, 2015 - All Rights Reserved
As published on
Newswithviews, January 21, 2015
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Our last two articles (not including the
"Obama Walks the Plank" satire) covered
racketeering in the federal government and corruption in the American judicial
system. We understand how there might be a Ho Hum response to the
information we presented in those two articles because there is so little that
the average citizen can do about either one of these issues individually.
But when it comes to your children, we hope that what we present here gathers a
little more interest.
The greatest gift we can give to our
children is not just our undying love and reasonable discipline, but what we
teach them and how we oversee what others are teaching them. If you are
not interested in how your children are being manipulated, molded and
indoctrinated by the public education system, at the behest of government,
unions and special interest groups, you are not interested in your children's
long-term well being and future.
There are three major influences on your
children's public education. The unions that control the teachers, the
colleges that teach the teachers and those individuals and entities that control
the curriculum and the textbooks from which your children will learn.
Although most teachers are basically devoted to teaching their students, they
are still controlled by the unions and most unions are hopelessly corrupt.
The teachers are also a product of what they are taught in teaching
colleges. Both the teaching colleges and the individuals and entities that
control the curriculum and the textbooks are equally corrupt because they are
fundamentally controlled by a single, distorted and flawed ideology that has
become embedded in every one of our institutions. This ideology is
tantamount to a cult like religion where the ideology is an absolute (like
Islam), at the exclusion of all other ideologies, ideas and concepts.
That is not only corrupt it is collusion between government, unions and
colleges. Obama's brand of socialism and national and international
radical environmentalism are examples of cult-like ideologies.
In a previous article we wrote:
"Several years ago and
based on knowledge, experience and observations, we developed a theory about
mental processes, biases and deep-seated beliefs of the general population. We
called this theory, the "Little Black Box" theory. This theory applies across
the board to almost everything we believe in and everything we do in our lives.
It is inescapable and what is in the "Little Black Box" determines, to a large
margin, how our lives will turn out. It determines our thoughts, religious
beliefs, sexual proclivities, our fears, our strengths, our weaknesses, our
successes or failures and even our political persuasions. The content of the
"Little Black Box" and thus a person's point of reference, begins to fill up at
a very early age and the person is not aware, nor do they have any control of
what is going into it, because it is determined by their early environment,
along with a dash of their biological parent's
genetics."
"People behave in direct
proportion to the content of the "Little Black Box" and in most cases they are
not aware that they are behaving in this manner. To them it is perfectly
normal. In fact, what is in the "Little Black Box" defines who they are early
on in their lives. Changes to the content of the "Little Black Box" rarely occur
throughout a person's lifetime. When they do occur, it is almost always the
result of some revelation, a violent act or accident, overpowering new
information, (true or false) or an epiphany."
Your children, as they progress in age, are
filling up their "Little Black Boxes" at an alarming rate. What they learn in public education will
have a profound effect on the rest of their lives. It would seem that a
parent's primary duty and obligation is to make sure that what goes into their
"Little Black Boxes" is
essentially fundamental truths on which their children can rely, in their adult
lives. That is not happening in America's public school system
today. Just the opposite is true.
The corruption of unions is easy. Unions
are driven strictly by money and how to preserve or increase the money coming in
to their own coffers, or to the teacher's paychecks. Political power is
the means to that end. Their cozy relationship with government in
negotiating teacher contracts, especially Democrat politicians, is a
self-fulfilling prophecy of government run amok, corruption and collusion.
K-12 public education is mandated by law and public education requires teachers
to teach. Unions represent those teachers and with the threat of strike,
the unions can cut just about any deal they want with government. It's
that simple.
In 2013 the cost per student in the U. S. was
$12,608 and bloated union contracts are responsible for a good portion of that
cost. Unfortunately, in spite of the vast sums of taxpayer money being
spent on public education per student, the U. S. ranks 13th in the developed
countries of the world. That is appalling.
So how do you fight this cozy and corrupt
relationship that unions have with government? First, the people must
elect tough politicians, like Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin, to conduct the
negotiations from the side of government because government represents the
taxpayer. Second, the average citizen must take up the sword of freedom
and expose the corruption in teacher's unions and government ….. that is if they
truly care about their children and their bank accounts.
However, the systemic and embedded corruption
in public education resulting from an institutionalized ideology, is much more
problematic. The same dilemma can be applied to the peaceful Muslim vs.
the radical Muslim problem. How do you convince the radical Muslim that
gets his kicks out of brutality, murder and mayhem, to become a peaceful
Muslim? Although the problems are similar, the solutions are totally
different.
America has the most powerful, well-trained
and well-equipped military on the planet. Our power to destroy or defeat
an enemy militarily is unmatched. But with all this military might, that
same military is powerless against an embedded and institutionalized ideology,
whether that ideology is abroad (Islam), or right
here at home. The Romans learned this the hard way when they were
confronted by the ideology of Christianity. First, Christianity was little
more than wispy smoke that smoldered in the far reaches of the empire. But
then it became a raging fire that burned its way across all of the lands
surrounding the Mediterranean and beyond. There is nothing more powerful
than an idea that becomes a mindset in the general population. Sadly, a
powerful but flawed ideology has become a mindset in the general population of
America and if that ideology is not defeated, America has no future as a free
nation.
You must kill the radical Muslim, but to
change the hearts and minds of those who believe in the flawed ideology that now
rules all of our American institutions, it requires constant and repeated
education and re-programming over decades, if not generations. It is not a
problem that can be fixed in a single election cycle. It took over 100
years to get where we are today.
This flawed ideology that has infiltrated all
of our institutions and is teaching your children, contains elements of social
justice, multi-culturalism, political correctness, irrational compassion and
radical environmentalism.
Social justice is based on the rationale that
every man should be equal in outcomes, not equal in opportunity and "equal" is
defined and implemented by government, either by force of law, or force of
arms. That rationale is in direct conflict with the U. S.
Constitution.
Multi-culturalism has never worked because a
nation's survival and continued success is based on a single language and
assimilation to its morality, laws and ingrained culture. Just ask Europe about
multi-culturalism. It is tearing at the very heart of the European nations
and their cultures, with the influx of immigrants from the Middle East that do
not assimilate, nor do they intend to.
Multi-culturalism will eventually consume
America, if the people let it. The white and black cultures are not
melding as hoped and the divide grows, fueled by charges of White racism and
White privilege from the left ….. for votes. The massive influx of the
brown-skinned socialist cultures from south of our border have not and will not
assimilate into the American culture of one language, self-reliance and the
unalienable right of individual freedom. The ideology that
promotes and enables government dependency, unchecked immigration and amnesty
for illegal aliens, is the same ideology used to teach your children in public
schools.
Political correctness is based on the
rationale that no person or group of persons should suffer insults or be
offended. That of course is impossible and robs people of learning how to
deal with the differences in people and in cultures. Political correctness
is also a deadly policy and gets people killed because it precludes determining
the origins of a particular threat to life, liberty and property and rooting it
out.
Irrational compassion is based on the
philosophy that any suffering by any one or more persons, regardless of
circumstances, requires assistance from government, whether the government can
afford it or not. It is also a political strategy, primarily by the left, to buy
votes. It is this policy of irrational compassion that has essentially led
America into virtual bankruptcy, the ever-weakening core of its people from
dependency and the destruction of individual freedom and our
constitution.
We have written volumes about radical
environmentalism. Once again, radical environmentalism is a policy
implemented by the ruling class and built on human guilt for having the audacity
to harm the planet just by living. Your children are being taught that
Americans are the worst offenders of environmental degradation and they must pay
the price for their transgressions. But it is not about protecting the
environment ladies and gentlemen, it is however, about control.
This is what is being taught to your children
in public schools, merged in with math, English and history. It is all
about control of the masses through social and environmental propaganda.
The federal government hijacked Common Core State Standards (Common Core)
to implement its social agenda. (See:
"Common Core Standards - Suspicions
Confirmed") Now, Obama wants to make a college education
free …. once again to buy the votes from the millennials. Since nothing is
free, guess who gets to pay?
Schools are no longer objective arenas of
learning. They have become political classrooms to promote a political
agenda. That political agenda is Progressivism, which is pure socialism by
any other name. Promoting a political agenda isn't learning, it is
indoctrination. Hitler would be proud of what the federal government, the
unions and teaching colleges have done to education in America, as compared to
what he did with Hitler's Youth. Your children are being schooled in the
art of mob mentality, loyalty to the collective and strict compliance to
government rule. They are not being schooled in individual thought, how to
solve problems with inductive and deductive reasoning and the fundamentals of
liberty where individual, unalienable rights are natural rights, not government
legislated or approved rights.
Ladies and gentlemen, you may not be able to
change government racketeering or the corruption in the American judicial system
right away, but you sure can change how your children are being taught at the
local level, that is if you really care about what is being spoon fed into your
children's "Little Black Boxes."
Trust in government and most of our
institutions has all but evaporated. People now just endure the
corruption in our institutions but they don't do anything about it.
Consequently, the corruption grows more and more every day. It is our intent
through processes that we will reveal at a later date, to combat that corruption
by exposing and disclosing it at the county level all across America and
communicating that information to a national audience, with the goal of
restoring trust and integrity in our institutions. With a relatively small
group of dedicated individuals, it can be done.
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NOTE: The
foregoing article represents the opinion of the author and is not necessarily
shared by the owners, representatives, employees, or agents of the
publisher.
Ron Ewart, a nationally known author and
speaker on freedom and property rights issues and author of this weekly column,
"In Defense of Rural America", is the president of the National
Association of Rural Landowners (NARLO) (http://www.narlo.org),
an advocate and consultant for urban and rural
landowners and a non-profit corporation headquartered in Washington
State. He can be reached for comment at info@narlo.org.
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