Posted by
Corthell on Tuesday, June 16, 2009 4:28:58 PM
The church: An accomplice to Marxism in our schools
It is impossible to separate the current state of our culture and government from the spiritual and intellectual foundations upon which both are based. For conservative leaders and activists who have been sounding the warning for decades about the approaching tyranny of global Marxism/socialism, our national condition is appalling but not surprising.
The symptoms of how far we have been led down this road are many; however, it is critical that we take some responsibility for producing a nation of illiterates. As many have pointed out, the crucial first institutional steps to preparing a nation for either its destruction or servitude are weakening the churches and the schools.
Most Americans, including evangelical Christians, have turned the education of our children over to the government via schools shaped by secular humanists Horace Mann and John Dewey. Prior to the 1840s after Mann had become secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education, children in this country truly received a "world class education." As Dr. Marshall Foster of the Mayflower Institute relates in his profound book, "The American Covenant":
At the time of the Declaration of Independence the quality of education had enabled the colonies to achieve a degree of literacy from 70 percent to literally 100 percent. This was not education restricted to the few. Modern scholarship reports "the prevalence of schooling and its accessibility to all segments of the population."
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He also relates how Mann, who is an icon to the educational establishment, and later John Dewey, who was also a signer of the Humanist Manifesto I, aggressively promoted an agenda that included:
- Forced taxation for state schools and compulsory attendance that removed the funding, control and children from the parents;
- De-emphasizing and removing biblical principles in education and character development, replacing it with humanistic philosophy;
- Standardized teacher training, textbooks and accreditation away from traditional philosophies as established by leaders like Noah Webster.
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