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The religious right also wants the government out of the schools. For them, this would solve the road block provided by the separation of church and state, and, they believe, one of the 7 mountains would belong to the churches. I don’t see any other ally or sympathetic ear for the separation of education and the state. So, I’ll be interested to read about why this issue is so critical now. Hey, talk Lisa VanDamme into an IPO.
I don’t think any culture can stay free that’s anti-intellectual.
If the population doesn’t develop their own philosophy then ideas will simply come from outside to fill the gap (in this case from Europe).
The best military in the world is not enough to maintain freedom, you need both a military defence and an intellectual defence.
In a rational culture, which we don’t have now, intellectual defence would be contained in diplomacy, during both war and peace, and in politics during elections and the subsequent conduct of legislation and government at home.
In Canada, the Catholic Church has a firm grip on the “Separate School Board”. . interesting choice for the name of a school board. In Canada’s beginning, under the ancient political system inherited from Britain (a parliamentary democracy invented by kings, queens and potentates when it was believed man could not control his own destiny - with no enshrinement of individual rights).. preists, politicians and primarily the French and the English all got in bed together to further their own power. Preists held positions in Parliament and encouraged the French to pro-create without caution (a woman had no right to her own body). In my Grandparents generation it was common for families to bare 15 - 20 children. The Church entered the public (and separate) school system with their ideas. The Church has hundreds of years of experience on how to control a child’s mind.
”. . .hundreds of years. . .”?
Well ok, a couple thousand then.
One blemish (a huge one, but now corrected) didn’t ruin an informative comment; I was unaware of the history you describe. I wonder if they have handbooks on how to “teach” kids in these schools.
In the U.S., the wall-of-separation in public education is holding fairly well, although religion has been able to put some holes in it: see several illegitimate Bible Literacy programs on the market, the Good News Club, and teachers who bring creationism into classrooms. The latest gimmick, already started, comes from the insight that, while adults can’t come onto school grounds to preach, there’s no such restriction on the kids themselves; they can organize prayer meetings around the flagpole, for example. I suppose that kids with iDevices could even show adult produced video to other kids: like videos about burning in hell if they don’t accept Christ.
I doubt they have handbooks but the general philosophy of humanity today is that man is a maleovelant creature and needs to be controlled. Supposedly there is famous quote by a “Jesuit”, “Give me a child til he’s 7 years old and I’ll give you the man.”
My Dad once said, “If you don’t stand up for something, you will fall for something else.”, which I interpret to mean if we don’t stand by our principles of individual rights and freedoms and the inalienable right for man to pursue his own life, liberty and happiness, we might as well stop thinking and become mindless slaves serving the group.
Getting to the root of the problem .. its not the government or church or any other kind of authoritarian mystic that will protect a child from innapropriate content, its his parents who should have provided the child with those principles named above and including providing the child an environment to earn for himself a positive self-esteem which is the best ammo any parent can give a child to thrive.
Government’s only proper role should be to protect each individual from the initiation of force from all others (through the courts, police and military) including government itself.
If we don’t stand up against innapropriate education for our children by insisting on the complete separation of:
Education and State
Religion and State
Science and State
Economy and State
the human race cannot thrive as it should.
Yes, I think the original separation of church and state should be expanded to separation of ideology and state. That way things like public education which some people regard as just a normal part of government, but are actually socialism, would become unconstitutional.
Government means governing: maintaining law and order and peace over a given piece of land, and then letting people live their lives, without any particular ideology (including socialism) being backed by the government.