In Part #1 I touched just a brief moment on age old saying about sending our children to Caesar. Then In Part #2 I talked about the ‘Father of Public Education in America’ being a radical socialist and Marxist. In Part #3 I wrote about his predecessor, who was also into socialism and authoritarianism. Here, in Part #4, I will talk about the origins of public education back about 300 years ago. It is interesting to say the least…and it is still applies just as interesting today, 300 years later.

In the Middle Ages (600AD – 1600AD+/-) the European political system was essentially ‘feudalism’ with a few kings and/or lords…then peasants/servants (including soldiers) being the vast majority of people. Total and absolute fealty to the king/lord was required of everyone. The principal lessons that children had to learn early on were obedience (pretty much to everyone), suppression of their own will, and the show/pledge of loyalty toward kings, lords, and masters. A rebellious spirit in an adult or child could well result in death for them…and their whole family.

Note: Yes, the ‘European Renaissance’ started about 1450 but many include that period in the overall Middle Ages. And for the purpose of discussing politics and education I can easily make the case that it is in-fact included in the Middle Ages.

As the Middle Ages faded away a new period arose; referred to by some as ‘The Enlightenment’ or by others as the ‘Early Modern Period.’ Within that time frame was the ‘First Industrial Revolution’ (1760 – 1840). Feudalism gradually subsided with the rise of industry and of a new bourgeoisie class of businessmen and land owners. The labor of children was moved to a great degree from farm fields into dark, crowded, dirty factories. So you could rightly think that children were educated to make good workers for factories. But it didn’t end there.

By the early 1800’s the Kingdom of Prussia funded their school system with taxes, rather than charging students, allowing all citizens to attend for free. Shortly thereafter, they made attendance at their government schools compulsory. This is called the Prussian Model and included subjects such as mathematics, writing, and reading as well as teaching things like obedience and duty to country. The Prussian education model was set forth upon the ideas of Johann Gottlieb Fichte who was a philosopher whose main concern was nationalism. Why nationalism?

The Emperor of Prussia was concerned about the previous and terrible defeat of the Prussian army by Napoleon Bonaparte’s forces in 1806. He was not so much worried that Prussian forces had been beaten badly but that Prussian soldiers had acted as individuals and not as a single coordinated and committed unit. The new education system (Prussian Model) would create the army he had in mind. In this new educational system there would be two tiers of students; 1) the 1% ‘elite’ who would be trained to educate and lead the country, 2) the 99% of others would be trained to subserviently work in the lower sectors of industry, agriculture, and serve in the military…nationalism.

Here is where it gets interesting…after the American Revolution the Industrial Revolution really began to blossom. Business and industrial leaders in the U.S. embraced and adopted the Prussian Model of public education. Horace Mann actually introduced the Prussian Model of education to America but John Dewey really expanded it to be the mainstream public education standard.

The Smith-Towner Bill in the early 1920’s was the start of school attendance being mandatory by law…and ironically, would establish the National Education Association, the radical leftist teacher’s union. And again oddly, public education became mandatory nationwide…after World War 1.

The Prussian Model was designed to educate children to mostly become really good workers and trained soldiers…with the exception of the very few elites who would educate/control/lead the country. The Prussian Model was originally made mandatory by an Emperor who wanted better workers and better soldiers, America 100 years ago did the exact same thing…by law.

So what does that have to do with today’s public education in America?

Before I touch on that, let me digress almost 200 years if you will allow me. Just as the whole concept of public education, Prussian Model (Germany), was becoming mainstream in the US and there arose a group of men who enthusiastically supported public education; Vanderbilt, Carnegie, Rockefeller, J.P. Morgan. Ring a bell?

The newspapers of the day, before they were bought out by these same men, referred to Vanderbilt, Carnegie, Rockefeller, J.P. Morgan as ‘German Barons’. And that term rather quickly morphed into ‘robber barons’. Do you see any coincidence there? What are your thoughts on that oddity?

Okay, back to today’s world…

Critical thinking is no longer a mainstream subject taught in schools, neither is history or civics. Why do you think that is?

But we’ve seen a long list of ‘woke’ subjects now being forced on our children. Everything from Critical Race Theory to classes on how to change your gender. We even have sexual perverts reading to children as young as 6, telling stories that are pure pornography. Ever think through ‘why’ that is? Why would these adult pervert men, dressed as women, want to be around little children?

On to something completely different…As of 2019 polls showed that 40% of college and university undergraduates nationwide favor socialism over capitalism. Why do you think that is? And what do you think that percentage has grown to in the last 4 years.

I am going to stop now. You know that many of society’s problems, maybe most, are originating from public schools. You know that public schools are not that at all…they are government schools pure and simple. And now you know why the federal government and the state governments control the schools NOT parents. And now you know why school attendance was made mandatory…by law under penalty of imprisonment. And now you know why every national teacher union is controlled by radical left-wingers, some are outright socialists and communists.

What do you truly think of the public education system in the United States?

Are you willing to accept truth and fact…or are you simply willing to buy into the propaganda that has been spoon fed to us for the last 130 years. Oh, oddly enough, the same propaganda being pushed on us since the beginning of the Progressive Movement 130 years ago. Surely there is no coincidence there!

Now, as I close this article I will leave this with you…I would like you to really grasp this.

US literacy rates:

• 1780’s: long before the Prussian Model was introduced to the USA – 80% of men and 50% of women were literate in the majority of populated America.
• 1840’s: before public education in the US – 91% literacy rate
• 1920’s: 30 years into widespread public education system implementation – 70% literacy rate
• 2020’s: 130 years into a mandatory public school education system – 46% literacy rate (According to a 2020 report by the U.S. Department of Education, 54% of adults in the United States have literacy below the 6th-grade level.)

So how is that public school educational system working out for you?

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In Part #1 I relayed the saying about sending our children to Caesar and getting back Romans. In Part #2 I talked about the John Dewey being the ‘Father of Public Education in America’ being a radical socialist and Marxist. Here, in Part #3, I will talk about the ‘The Father of American Education’, Horace Mann.

Horace Mann traveled to Europe in 1843 to study the school system in Prussia (Prussian Model). He also staunchly advocated that universal public education was the best way to turn ‘unruly American children into disciplined, judicious Whig [Republican] citizens.’ He believed in and advocated for students having a common learning experience [collectivism] and equalize the conditions of men’s road to social advancement [socialism] by the early labor movement [Communism].

Above all Mann wanted public education to instill in students the #1 value…obedience to authority. He also pushed for feminization of the teaching profession. He also stated that a primary aim of public education should be social efficiency. And for good measure it is relevant to know that Mann was also a humanist. Oddly, humanism believes in the individual as it relates to social potential and NOT in God or Christianity. Why oddly? He was raised a Calvinist and later converted to Baptist religious beliefs and attended a Baptist church most of his life.

So the Father of American Education was a true believer in the Prussian Model of public education. He viewed American children as unruly and ill-disciplined. He believed in and advocated for collectivism, socialism, and Communism. He saw the need for Americans to be obedient to authority to ensure an efficient social system. And he personally didn’t believe in God or religion…while attending a Christian church…expedient to his extensive political career?

So here we have John Dewey’s predecessor, Horace Mann, being almost a carbon copy of John Dewey…or the other way around…no difference. And here is an interesting little tidbit of information…both went to Brown University. Why is that important? Well, maybe it’s not, but consider this…

• Brown University is an elitist 260-year old Ivy League school.
• Brown University is the most liberal of all Ivy League schools.
• Brown University is ranked #7 most liberal of all colleges and universities in America.
• 70% of all students at Brown University identify as ‘very liberal’ with another 20% identifying as ‘liberal’. Yup, 90% of students are raging leftist liberals.
• In 1804 John and Nicholas Brown paid the university to change the name from Rhode Island College to ‘Brown University’. Ironically, the Browns were shippers and traders…a significant part of their business was in the slave trade.
• Brown University didn’t become coeducational until 1971.

So let’s recap shall we:

• Both Dewey & Mann were associated with Brown University.
• Both Dewey & Mann advocated collectivist beliefs.
• Both Dewey & Mann advocated socialist beliefs.
• Both Dewey & Mann advocated Communist beliefs.
• Both Dewey & Mann were humanists.
• Both Dewey & Mann visited Prussia and learned of Prussian Model of public education directly from the Prussians.
• Both Dewey & Mann advocated for and promoted the Prussian Model of public education here in the United States.
• The Prussian Model of public education is the foundation of, and still in use today, in the American public education system.

So now we have a pretty clear picture of how and who in regards to the very foundation of public education in America. But wait, I am not done yet…we still need to know the why.

Notice I am mentioning the Prussian Model of public education so much and is it really important to know that? Oh yes! And that is the next post in this series 🙂

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John Dewey has been considered the father of America’s public school system for the last 100 years. But he is far more than that. However, let me digress for a minute.

Horace Mann could actually be thought of as the original advocate of public education, of a sorts, in the US. But he died well before public education, as we know it, began. It was in fact John Dewey that brought modern public education to America in the late 1800’s more than any other individual.

Oddly, he brought our current education system forward…at the same time the extremist Progressive Movement began.

A deep dive into the life of John Dewey finds him to be, by his own words, a true believer:

• He believed in and advocated for Socialism/Marxism.

• After he toured the Soviet Union he spoke glowingly of that country, its leaders, and its system.

• He was a devoted Progressive.

• He was a humanist.

• He was a globalist.

• He was a labor movement advocate and a strong anti-capitalist.

• He advocated violence and property destruction during labor strikes.

He once said, “Individualism offers a distorted vision of human freedom, genuine freedom is found in social cooperation [socialism]…” He went on to state he “admired” the Soviets’ educational system. He also lamented the idea that the US was not up to the Soviet societal and educational standards, advocating for a “…comparable experience of revolutionary civil war.”

I have to imagine that you love this driving idea of Dewey…

So doesn’t that give you a warm and fuzzy feeling that the Father of American Public School System was a radical left-wing socialist and Marxist…who didn’t believe in God?

Doesn’t it make you feel so grateful that he impregnated the entire public educational system with his Progressive, humanist, globalist views?

And of courses…him being a radical proponent of violence and revolution to forward his socialist/Marxist views and beliefs should just give you the most wonderful feelings that our public education system has your best interests at its heart. Well, as long as you don’t believe in a Constitutional Republic.

But I will tell you this…John Dewey was a staunch advocate of democracy…

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Have you ever really thought about public schools?

Have you ever realized that you give your minor children away for a total of 10 straight years to other people…to indoctrinate educate them?

Have you ever thought about what public school teachers actually say to your minor children throughout the day?

Have you ever thought the fact that these aren’t public schools at all…they are run by the government NOT the public…so they are government schools.

So we trust our young, impressionable, minor children to government schools for a total of 10 straight full-time years.

There is a saying…

If you send you children to Caesar…

…don’t be surprised that they become Romans.

A modern day version…

If you send you children to the federal and state government schools, don’t be surprised that they become…

Just saying…

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I have thought long and hard about this subject, waiting almost a month until clearly and definitively knowing my mind and heart…and what exactly happened and what is happening. Sure, I had my initial feelings, but I wanted time for Israel to prove herself and the facts to come out…then to be sure about how I write it down.

First off, I had to remind myself that there is a difference between Israel the country and Israel the group of citizens…just as there is a difference between US federal government and the American people. Then the difference between Israel the country and Israel the Jewish religion. That was evident all the way back thousands of years when Israel had a king to govern the country and Israel had a prophet to lead the religious side.

And then there was the issue of what group of people has/had the right to occupy the lands…and for that we need some history:

• About 4000 years ago God promised the people of Israel the lands occupied by the Canaanites; says so in the Bible.
• About 3300 years ago the Israelites defeated the Canaanites and occupied the land.
• About 2700 years ago the land of Israel was conquered by Assyrians.
• About 2500 years ago Israel was freed by Persia who restored the lands to Jews, as well as some others.
• Then Israel enters a thousands year period of foreign occupation, war, and genocide at the hands of Christians, Muslims, and polytheists.
• In the 1800’s the Ottomans (Muslims) conquered the area and the British supported them. However, during this same times period there was a large Jewish migration into the region adding to the Jews already living there.
• When the Ottoman Empire fell during WWI Palestine became the name of the territory and was ruled by the British Empire.
• At the end of WWII, as the British Empire was falling, Britain retreated from the Palestine territory in 1947/1948. The UN proposed a 2-state solution for the area…for both Israel and Palestine. The Jewish people accepted the proposal, Arabs/Muslims rejected it.
• In 1948 at least five Muslim countries invaded the area after Israel declared itself an independent nation and the Muslims vowed to wipe Israel off the map and kill all of the Jews.
• In early 1949 Israel defeated the Muslim alliance and was now a stand-alone free and independent country.

So who is entitle to the lands currently referred to as Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank? The answer depends on if you Believe in God and the Bible…or not.

If you believe in God and the Bible then the Jewish people (i.e. Israel) was given the lands by God, then they defeated the Canaanites (multiple independent tribes) who occupied the land at the time. So the Jews/Israel have a legitimate claim to the land. Why? Because God said so and it is documented in the Bible, and settled by a war documented historically.

If you don’t believe in God…well, it gets a little more problematic. The people of Israel, Jewish people, defeated the Canaanites (multiple independent tribes) and won the land by default (spoils of war) about 3300 years ago. Granted, the land went back and forth from Jews to Empires to Jews to Muslims to Christians to Muslims to Empires…and then back to Jews in 1948 and confirmed in 1949 when the Jews won the war that the Muslims started. Several wars have been started by regional Muslim countries and groups in the last 75 years, but the nation of Israel have won each. So Israel has won the land in a war thousands of years ago and 75 years ago reclaimed those lands… and successfully defended them since.

So what about “Palestine”? Well, remember the word, used to define the geographical-political group of people didn’t come into actual existence until the earl 1900’s. Now, there is a group of scholars that advocate that the name Palestine refers to the people called Philistines. Problem is…there is nothing definitive to prove that to be true. But, even it is…the first record of the Philistines is approximately 100+ years after Israel conquerors the Canaanites. And it was the Philistines who came into and tried to take away the land from Israel about 100 years later…but Israel beat the Philistines when they invaded.

And then there is the inconvenient actual historical name of land occupied by the Philistines…it’s called “Philistia”…yeah, not “Palestine” regardless of how language “experts” try to do word convolution.

There is one more issue to discuss…DNA. The people of Gaza, Palestinians, reportedly share some Canaanite DNA, my research shows that to be true. And the Palestinians have previously used that to “prove” they are the rightful people to occupy the land of Israel…because it first belonged to the Canaanites. Well, there is a complication here…first, Israel beat the Canaanites and took over that land as a spoil of war. Second, Israelites also share some Canaanite DNA. Ah so, the DNA argument is offset since both groups of people share some Canaanite DNA…hence, an equality of claim.

One way or another…Jews are entitled to ALL the land of Israel…including Gaza and the West Bank…period!!!

So for all of you Americans that want to disagree with me…well, then all the citizens of the US need to leave the United States of America and return the entirety of the USA over to the French, Spanish, and British. And they need to then turn their land holdings in North American over to Native Americans who were here before them…the original people. What is fair in the Middle East has to be just as fair in North America!

Let me as clear as possible…Israel has a legitimate “right” one way or another to their lands in the Middle East…ALL of them…including Gaza and the West Bank.

Last month Hamas terrorists attacked Israel slaughtering men, women, children, toddlers, and infants. They raped, sodomized, beat, tortured, and beheaded hundreds…others they shot, bombed, and burned alive. It was nothing less than an atrocity carried out by sub-human Muslims. And those same Muslims have been trying to exterminate the Israeli people for over 75 years. And yes, those Muslims took over where Hitler left off…after Hitler killed more than 6,000,000 Jews.

If you can’t see that…then you are either of immense stupidity, incredible ignorance, have a soul cankered with darkness that knows no depths, or a serious misplacement of priorities. It is NOT a matter of religion and it is NOT a matter of who’s land claim is legitimate…it is a matter of a people with shear hatred and satanic desires in their heart…the terrorist Muslims. It is a classic and ultimate example of good vs evil. And Israel is not the bad guy here…they are not the evil here.

Think about this for a second…if the US was attacked by hundreds of Canadian terrorists sponsored by the Canadian government…killing 55000 Americans, injuring 112000 Americans, kidnapping more than 9000 Americans…what would you have the US military do to those Canadian terrorists?

And you knew the Spanish government funded the Canadian terrorists, gave them the weapons and the training to launch the attack…what would you have the US military do to Spain?

Does that help clarify the situation…and Israels right and obligation to respond?

But who does the US federal government stand with? You might think it is Israel…but you would be wrong. Yeah, you could point to air craft carriers, military advisors, White House statements, etc…but would you be looking at reality, the truth?

The last year of Trump’s presidency Iran had oil revenues of $14billion. Remember Trump placed sanctions on Iranian oil in late 2018, when he stopped Obama’s Iranian nuclear weapons program deal. That year, before the Trump sanctions, Iran made $50billion in oil revenues. Trump dropped that by by 72%, then Biden became president.

Not only did Biden restore the Iranian nuclear weapons program, Iran’s oil revenues jumped to $38billion in 2022…and $55billion in 2023. The truth of the matter is…Biden has given Iran an additional $65billion in additional oil revenues!! And then gave Iran an additional $6billion in cash just a couple of months ago. AND…put Iran back on the path to nuclear weapons…the path the Obama designed. And what country funds, arms, supports, and directs Hamas, Houthi, and Hezbollah? Yeah, Iran does…imagine that!

And during this same time period…Biden has given 100’s of millions of dollars directly to Gaza and even more to the surrounding countries…all of whom have attacked Israel at one time or another in the last 50 years.

So who does Biden and the us federal government REALLY support?

Is the country of Israel perfect? Nope! Is the religion of Jewish people perfect? Well, God Himself calls them “His people” but probably not considered perfect based on Christ’s teachings. Is the government of Israel perfect? Hardly. Are Israelis without blame of doing anything wrong? Obviously not.

85 years ago virtually the entire world stood by and allowed more than 6million Jews to be slaughtered…a genocide of men, women, children, and infants. Should it be allowed again? Should we turn a blind eye again?

Hell No!

Let Israel defend herself. Let Israel wipe this Islamic terrorist group off the face of the earth making EVERYONE safer! We, the USA, would defend ourselves…let Israel do the same!

I stand with Israel !!!

I stand against Islamic terrorism ! ! !

I will not be silent, I will not be blind ! !

I stand with Israel !!!

I stand on my principles…what do you stand on and for?

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