John Taylor Gatto “Indoctrination”

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Commit your works to the Lord, and your thoughts will be established.
Proverbs 16:3

Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. The average American [should be] content with their humble role in life, because they’re not tempted to think about any other role.
William T. Harris, U.S. Commissioner of Education, 1889

"Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business. Government shouldn't play a part in everyday life. Jefferson said that the people should be left to manage their own affairs. His opposition will bear careful analysis, and the country could stand a good deal more of its application. The trouble with us is we talk about Jefferson, but we do not follow him. In this theory that the people should manage their government, and not be managed by it, he was everlastingly right."
~Calvin Coolidge

“God’s gifts put man’s best dreams to shame.” — Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

The National Education Association believes that home schooling programs based on parental choice cannot provide the student with a comprehensive education experience.
National Education Association Resolution B-73

There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad day-light of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

Homeschooling and public schooling are as opposite as two sides of a coin. In a homeschooling environment, the teacher need not be certified, but the child MUST learn. In a public school environment, the teacher MUST be certified, but the child need NOT learn. - Gene Royer

“And He said unto me, my grace is sufficient for thee for my strength is made perfect in weakness, most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities that the power of Christ may rest upon me.” (2 Corinthians 12:9)

All thy children shall be taught of the Lord and great shall be the peace of thy children. Isaiah 54:13

I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.
Douglas MacArthur

The philosophy in the classroom of this generation is the philosophy of government in the next.
Abraham Lincoln

“When you don’t know what to do next, just do the thing in front of you.” Elizabeth Elliot

Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
Beatrix Potter

The group consisting of mother, father and child is the main educational agency of mankind.
Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr

Parents give up their rights when they drop the children off at public school.
Texas Federal District Judge Melinda Harmon

Schools have not necessarily much to do with education… they are mainly institutions of control, where basic habits must be inculcated in the young. Education is quite different and has little place in school.
Winston Churchill

Chance that an American adult believes that ‘politics and government are too complicated to understand’: 1 in 3
Chance that an American who was home-schooled feels this way: 1 in 25
Harpers Magazine May 2004

A love of reading is an acquired taste, not an instinctive preference. The habit of reading is formed in childhood; and a child's taste in reading is formed in the right direction or in the wrong one while he is under the influence of his parents; and they are directly responsible for the shaping and cultivating of that taste. - H. Clay Trumbull,Hints on Child Training (1890)

“Give me four years to teach the children
and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted"
“Destroy the family, you destroy the country.”
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

What is most important and valuable about the home as a base for children's growth into the world is not that it is a better school than the schools, but that it isn't a school at all. - John Holt

We're not trying to do School at Home. We're trying to do homeschool. These are two entirely different propositions. We're not trying to replicate the time, style or content of the classroom. Rather we're trying to cultivate a lifestyle of learning in which learning takes place from morning until bedtime 7 days each week. The formal portion of each teaching day is just the tip of the iceburg. - Steve and Jane Lambert

I had a dream the other night, I didn’t understand.

A figure walking through the mist, with flintlock in his hand.

His clothes were torn and dirty, as he stood there by the bed,

He took off his three-cornered hat, and speaking low, he said:

“We fought a revolution, to secure our liberty.

We wrote the Constitution, as a shield from tyranny,

For future generations, this legacy we gave,

In this, the land of the free and the home of the brave.”

“The freedom we secured for you, we hoped you’d always keep.

But tyrants labored endlessly, while your parents were asleep.

Your freedom gone, your courage lost, you’re no more than a slave,

In this, the land of the free and the home of the brave.”

“You buy permits to travel, and permits to own a gun,

Permits to start a business, or to build a place for one.

On land that you believe you own, you pay a yearly rent,

Although you have no voice in choosing how the money’s spent.”

“Your children must attend a school that doesn’t educate.

Your Christian values can’t be taught, according to the state.

You read about the current news, in a regulated press.

You pay a tax you do not owe, to please the I.R.S.”

“Your money is no longer made of silver or of gold.

You trade your wealth for paper, so your life can be controlled.

You pay for crimes that make our nation turn from God in shame,

You’ve taken Satan’s number, as you’ve traded in your name.”

“You’ve given government control to those who do you harm,

So they can padlock churches, and steal the family farm,

And keep the country deep in debt, put men of God in jail,

Harass your fellow countrymen, while corrupted courts prevail.”

“Your public servants don’t uphold the solemn oath they’ve sworn.

Your daughters visit doctors so their children won’t be born.

Your leaders ship artillery and guns to foreign shores,

And send your sons to slaughter, fighting other people’s wars.”

“Can you regain freedom for which we fought and died?

Or don’t you have the courage or the faith to stand with pride?

Are there no more values for which you’ll fight to save?

Or do you wish your children to live in fear and be a slave?”

“Sons of the Republic, arise and take a stand!

Defend the Constitution, the Supreme Law of the Land!

Preserve our great republic and each God-given right,

And pray to God to keep the torch of freedom burning bright!”

As I awoke he vanished, in the mist from which he came.

His words were true, we are not free. We have ourselves to blame.

For even now as tyrants trample each God-given right,

We only watch and tremble, too afraid to stand and fight.

If he stood by your bedside, in a dream while you’re asleep,

And wondered what remains of our rights he fought to keep,

What would be your answer, if he called out from the grave?

Is this still the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave?

Author: Thelen Paulk