Public Schools

Only a few centuries back, few children went to school.  From paleolithic times on, most lived and worked with their parents, learning at home to be hunter-gatherers, herders, or subsistence farmers.  Some few who were wealthy were tutored.  Some might join a monastery and receive classes in reading and religion.  King Phillip of Macedon hired Aristotle to tutor his son Alex, who went on to be known as Alexander the Great.  The percentage of people who could read and write was very small. 

At some point cultures adopted the idea that every child should learn to read.  Religious groups thought that everybody should be able to read the Holy Bible. 

Soon it was discovered that an educated populace is more productive, generating more wealth for its society.  Writing improved communication at a distance.  A written code of laws means stability.  Instructions in writing are not forgotten or misremembered. 

Here in America the institution of public schools produced a high rate of literacy.  The public schools allowed the government to indoctrinate our children with the principles by which we live.  We learned to read by reading the stories of heroes who were role models.  We read about people who were influential in building our nation, such as Boone, Franklin, Washington, Adams, Madison, and Lincoln.  We read about leaders like Andrew Jackson, Sam Houston, Ulysses S. Grant, and Robert E. Lee.  We read about more ordinary people who, presented with a need, put their lives on the line to help others, people like Nathan Hale, Molly Pitcher, Jim Bowie, Harriet Tubman, and Kate Shelley.   

Today, our politicians have realized that they can use public education to bring up our children to support their ideology.  A public school, as valuable as it is to our culture, is basically a socialist institution.  Thus, public school employees, seeing where their interests lie, tend to support socialist ideas and to indoctrinate their students to favor socialist politics. 

The Democrat party has long favored socialist ideas as a means to receive support.  For over a century Democrats have looked to socialist memes to gain support, and to indoctrinate students so as to cause them to support socialism. 

One of the concepts of socialism has long been, “The end justifies the means.”  Socialist politicians know that the great mass of people are fools, and thus they must be made to support those omniscient socialist politicians by any means possible.  Thus lying to the public and cheating on elections are entirely justified by the need to help the fools in spite of their stupidity.  Socialist politicians need to accumulate power and wealth in order to save us from ourselves.  Of course, an ideal way to lead people to socialism is to start early, when they are still very young. 

Make sure they do not grow up believing in such principles as are listed in the Ten Commandments. 

My personal memories do not go back centuries, but I do remember back to my high school in the 1960’s. 

We read The Octopus by Frank Norris, which was presented as an example of the evil of capitalism.  In the story, a railroad corporation bribed politicians to gain a monopoly in the shipping of grain, and thus was able to gouge the farmers on shipping, forcing poverty onto the thousands of small farmers while making the railroad tycoons very rich. 

A couple of facts were carefully ignored.  The fact that politicians were willing to accept bribes to give one railroad a monopoly guaranteed that the monopoly would go to a railroad that was willing to pay the bribes.  A company that did not pay was out of business.  The monopoly and price gouging were forced into existence by the corruption of politicians.  The government has the power, and the guns, if necessary, to control the situation.  The tycoons had no choice.  The origin of the problem lay in the corruption of politicians, not in the greed of railroaders. 

As a senior in high school, I got a good lesson in the way Democrats handle elections.  Our town was mostly Democrat.  In the fall of 1964, most of us were too young to vote, so our civics teacher decided to have us hold a mock election to mirror the presidential election going on outside. 

This exercise turned out to be a better lesson than was first intended.  To avoid too big a mess, the teacher made a rule that any and all political postering would go only on the big bulletin board at the back of the room.  Some time later, she challenged me because, as a Goldwater supporter, I was tearing down postings by Johnson supporters.  I said it was fully justified because the Commies had torn down my postings.  Miss Zander actually confessed that she had torn down my “hateful” stuff.  When the election was finally held, Johnson won unanimously.  My vote for Goldwater, and likely several others, had vanished.  A fine lesson in the way Democrats run elections.  A lesson that Donald Trump relearned in 2020. 

Because, in college, I chose a physical science major, I was away from the center of the left-wing activism, but I do remember seeing a mob of anti-war pro-pot demonstrators facing a police line and chanting, “Cops eat shit!  Cops eat shit!”, thus showing their intellectual sophistication. 

Today, we have government schools for most of our children’s education.  School staff mostly get their pay from the government, and thus are living in a socialist society.  Socialist societies have historically been fairly low on productivity, so the members of such a society tend to suffer from poverty.  The government schools, however, are supported by taxes on productive people out in the real capitalist world. 

Students continue to be taught that socialism is good and free enterprise capitalism bad.  Now that very many kids go to school through college, it has been noted that they most commonly come out well indoctrinated to support socialist causes and to hate the free enterprise system that made the USA the most prosperous nation in history.  So now, Democrat politicians are advocating “College for All”. 

Of course, College for All removes the goal of educating to the highest possible level the students with the capacity and dedication to become intellectually superior leaders for the good of our whole society.  College for All means that we are flooded with mediocre graduates to lead us, while we lack the swarms of dedicated middle-level workers whose goal is to get the job done.  We become as effective as an army with a million generals and a dozen soldiers. 

Recent events suggest that most students are taking a course called “Rioting 101”.  More and more of our people seem to believe that the way to success in life is to get the decreasing numbers of productive workers to support them.  Unemployment is fairly low, because few are qualified and willing to seek the jobs that are not getting done for lack of workers. 

From neolithic times forward, ambitious people have sought to destroy societies and rebuild them to be subservient to their new masters.  Today, we see the public schools doing a wonderful job of helping such an effort.  The intelligent people must be in charge, and the “deplorables” must be taught their proper role in society.