Bending Twigs
 | When free public education becomes
mandatory public education, then education becomes brainwashing. |
For years, I've heard people complain about the failures of the government
schools. Sadly, the complaints have usually been about things that
aren't very important and that can be corrected in a student's later life.
In all of those years, I've never yet heard anybody correctly identify
the really serious failures.
Here are some good examples of the failures of the government schools.
• The
government schools have failed to teach the students the difference between
liberty and permission.
•They
have failed to teach the students the principles
of liberty.
•They
have failed to inform the students of the routine and flagrant violations
of those principles, by the government.
•They
have taught the students that equality is desirable and that it should
be imposed by force.
•They
have taught the students that security is more important than liberty.
•They
have taught the students that security can be provided only by the government.
•They
have taught the students that surveillance and intrusion by the government
are undertaken for the sake of liberty.
•They
have taught the students that we must sacrifice our liberty in order to
preserve it.
•They
have failed to instruct the students in the ancient principles of contract.
•They
have failed to tell the students that a contract obtained on behalf of
someone, by someone else, without the understanding or the consent of the
person for whom the contract was obtained, is void from its inception and
cannot legitimately be enforced against the person for whom it was obtained.
•They
have failed to tell the students that their Social Security numbers, obtained
for them when they were minors, represent such contracts.
•They
have failed to advise the students that each student's first act as an
adult should be to go to the nearest Social Security office and demand
that the contract be rescinded.
•They
have failed to teach the students the definition of money
or the consequences of interest-bearing
transactions and fractional
reserve banking.
•They
have taught the students that the United States is a democracy.
•They
have taught the students that democracy is the best possible form of government.
•They
have failed to teach the students that, when citizenship is mandatory,
there isn't any difference between citizenship and slavery.
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