Public School Students Are the New Inmates in the American Police State

[morfeeis]

It has been said that America’s schools are the training ground for future generations. However, instead of raising up a generation of freedom fighters, John W. Whitehead warns, we seem to be busy churning out newly minted citizens of the American police state who are being taught the hard way what it means to comply, fear and march in lockstep with the government’s dictates.

[jllundqu]

HOMESCHOOL WIN!

[Marenco]

John Whitehead nails it again.

It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wreck and ruin without fail. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty. To the contrary, I believe it would be possible to rob even a healthy beast of prey of its voraciousness, if it were possible, with the aid of a whip, to force the beast to devour continuously, even when not hungry, especially if the food, handed out under such coercion, were to be selected accordingly.

Albert Einstein; quoted in "Autobiographical Notes", Albert Einstein: Philosopher-Scientist, Paul Schilpp, ed. (1951), pp. 17-19.

''The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to down dissent and originality. That is its aim in the United States, whatever pretensions of politicians, pedagogues other such mountebanks, and that is its aim everywhere else.'' -- H. L. Mencken, The American Mercury

[AZJoe]

"If you lived in a place where you had to eat your meals at the government-owned restaurant you were assigned to by zip code, where if you chose a better but private restaurant you would be punished by being forced to pay for both, where most of the people employed in the government-owned restaurants demanded your money and your patronage and opposed giving you a choice, you would--if you're a reasonable person with a little self-esteem and respect for liberty--take to the streets in passionate protest. You would likely boycott the government restaurants. Well, this is the way government "education" works. So are you in the streets or just quietly paying its bills as it propagandizes your kids and teaches self-serving obedience to the state and its nonsense?"
--- Dr. Lawrence Reed, FEE