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We Americans are locked in a cultural war for the soul of our
country...The battle over our schools is part of the war to separate
parents from children, one generation from another, and all
Americans from their heritage.
Patrick Buchanan
EDUCATIONAL LEADERS
"Bill Bennett thinks the schools ought to get five more years to get
back to where they were in 1963. ‘If they’re still bad,’ he
says, ‘maybe we should declare educational bankruptcy, give the
people their money and let them educate themselves and start their
own schools.’"
Detroit News, Suzanne Fields, October 6, 1989
"We must do better or perish as the nation we know today."
Former Secretary of Education Lauro Cavazos
THE ACADEMIC CRISIS
The educational foundations of our society are presently being
eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future
as a Nation and a people… If an unfriendly foreign power had
attempted to impose on American the mediocre educational performance
that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war. As
it stands, we have allowed this to happen ourselves.
"A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Education Reform."
National Commission on Excellence in Education - 1983
ACADEMIC RESULTS
80% of 13 year olds cannot write a persuasive letter
40% of students cannot read well enough to handle books and lessons
the teacher assigns
20% of 12 year olds can‘t find United States on a World Map
50% of 17 year olds can't put Civil War in correct half century.
Dr. William Bennett, U.S. Secretary of Education - 1986
30% of larges companies offer remedial reading
27,000,000 adults are functionally illiterate — most are high school
graduates
46,000,000 adults are marginally illiterate — can’t complete a job
application
If this trend continues 2/3 of the U.S. population will be
illiterate by 2000
"A Nation at Risk" – 1983
National Commission on Excellence in Education
Fewer than one-fourth of all seventeen-year-olds tested in 1984 were
able to perform at an "adequate" level on writing tasks considered
essential to academic study, business, and professional work....We
are still at risk!
Secretary of Education William Bennett - 1988
"American Education; Making It Work"
(U.S. Department of Education)
Report before the National Academy of Sciences in 1986 showed U.S.
near bottom in comparison of math skills of U.S. students to
students in 18 other countries.
Arithmetic 10th
Algebra 12th
Geometry 16th
With very few exceptions, I watched for fourteen years as student
after student entered and left high school having learned next to
nothing during his or her four year term. And the problem is not in
someone else’s backyard, not in someone else’s school district: It’s
systemic. My experience has convinced me that if the purpose of the
public schools were to prevent children from acquiring an education,
they could not do a better job than they are right now, at this very
moment, in classrooms all across the nation.
Ours is an educational system that labels children
"learning-disabled" and then calls for more tax dollars to remediate
the problem it created. It is an anti-intellectual, morally bankrupt
system whose values-clarification classes and bogus drug and sex
education programs contribute to the very addictions they
sanctimoniously claim to solve. It is a system that crushes our
children’s intellectual curiosity and then demands that they learn
anyway.
Edward Rauchut, 14 yr. High School English Teacher
February 1992 "Comment" in Teacher Magazine.
Average scores for Houston Independent School District students on
the Scholastic Aptitude Test fell by 17 points. ... Down for the
third consecutive year. Averages on the verbal lowest in a decade.
The president of the board sponsoring the test said results should
send a warning that reading could become a "lost art" among high
school students.
Houston Post, Sept 1, 1990
Since 1979, spending on public education in Texas has risen from
$5.7 billion to $17.2 billion. During that period, although student
populations rose only 33%, expenditures per pupil increased a hefty
127%, yet since 1971 SAT test scores in Texas have declined by 45
points. 1992 verbal scores reached an all time low.
Houston Chronicle Feb 23, 1993, Rep. Tom Craddick, Editorial
...43 percent of HISD’s students passed all three sections of the
TAAS test this year, up from 36 percent last year. Statewide, scores
climbed from 48 percent passing all sections to 54 percent. "I
think it is an extraordinary result..."
Houston Superintendent Frank Petruzielo said.
[Some schools showed exceptionally low rates of passing:]
Austin 19% Davis 29%
Furr 24% Lee 38%
Madison 35% Milby 40%
Reagan 39% G.I Sanchez 9%
Wheatley 17% Yates 21%
Chronicle Jan 14, 1993
"TAAS scores climb statewide; 43 percent in HISD pass test"
The results of the 1990 Nation’s Report Card were so poor that
Education Secretary Lamar Alexander declared a "math emergency"
saying, "None of the states are cutting it. This is an alarm bell
that should ring all night in this country." One commentator
remarked: How bad are eighth graders’ math skills? So bad that half
are scoring just above the proficiency level expected of fifth-grade
students. Even the best students did miserably; at the top-scoring
schools, the average was well below grade level. Hardly any students
have the background to go beyond simple computation; most of these
kids can add but they have serious trouble thinking through simple
problems. Only 14% of eighth graders scored at the 7th grade
level or above, regardless of whether the students were in a wealthy
suburban system or a poor school system.
It seems apparent from these math test results and the many other
studies described above that the longer children are in public
school, the worse they perform academically. In the Nation’s Report
Card, for example:
4th graders:
72% at or above 3rd grade level
11% at or above 5th grade level
12th graders:
46% only at 7th grade level
5% able to do pre-calculus math
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Reading and writing skills of children in the public schools are
"dreadfully inadequate," despite a decade of "educational reforms."
The National Assessment of Educational Progress report found 58
percent of seventeen-year-olds cannot understand a twelfth grade
academic textbook or comprehend many articles in the Wall Street
Journal, Time, or Newsweek. Ninety-five percent of the
seventeen-year-olds do not have the reading skills to understand
college-level textbooks.
Secretary of Education Lauro Cavazos January 1990
Report on NAEP nationwide testing
More than one-fifth of the students could not identify George
Washington as the commander of the colonial forces during the
Revolution. Almost one in three did not know Lincoln was the author
of the Emancipation Proclamation. And nearly half failed to
recognize Patrick Henry as the man who said "Give me liberty or give
me death." NAEP’s evaluation of its most recent writing
assessment is that "performance in writing in our schools is, quite
simply, bad." Less than 50% of 17 year olds knew that Byron,
Keats, and Wordsworth were poets
National Assessment of Educational Progress Report - 1988.
A survey of 826 campuses in fifteen states and discovered that
one-third of all freshman need remedial training in reading,
writing, or math and are not ready to begin regular college courses.
The Southern Regional Education Board
We have huge numbers of kids in colleges and universities who are
basically getting their elementary and high school education and
calling it a Bachelor of Arts degree.
Albert Shanker, president
American Federation of Teachers
Did you know that you and I and all the rest of American industry
together spend more money each year teaching remedial math to U.S.
workers than all the grade school, high schools, and colleges in
this country combined.
Gerald Greenwald, vice chairman of Chrysler Corporation
Only 33% of employers said their recently hired high school
graduates were able to read and understand written and oral
instructions. Only 25% found their high school graduates were able
to do math functions.
Louis Harris and Associates poll - 1991
SAFETY CRISIS
In 1978 the National Institute of Education released its "Safe
Schools" report. Some of its findings were:
1) the risk of violence to teenagers is greater in public schools
than elsewhere;
2) over 5,200 secondary school teachers were physically attacked per
month, with at least 1,000 of them seriously injured;
3) each month 282,000 secondary school students are physically
attacked;
4) about 11 percent of secondary school children, 2.4 million, are
victims of robbery or theft in a given month;
The Right Choice– Home Schooling,
Christopher Klicka
Violence in the Halls
In 1940 the top discipline offenses, according to educators, were:
1. talking
2. chewing gum
3. making noise
4. running in the halls
5. getting out of turn in line
6. wearing improper clothing
7. not putting paper in wastebaskets
By 1982 the top discipline offenses had become:
1. rape
2. robbery
3. assault
4. burglary
5. arson
6. bombings
7. murder
8. suicide
9. absenteeism
10. vandalism
11. extortion
12. drug abuse
13. alcohol abuse
14. gang warfare
15. pregnancies
16. abortions
17. veneral diseases
USA Today, 1985
In May 1991 the National Crime Survey was released by the U.S.
Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics. This study
showed that ... almost three million violent crimes and thefts occur
on public school campuses annually. This equals approximately
sixteen thousand incidents per school day, or one every six seconds.
As a result of shootings, some students are wearing bullet-proof
vests to school.
The Right Choice– Home Schooling,
Christopher Klicka
ECONOMIC CRISIS
Therefore, in the last decade, from 1982 to 1992, per-pupil spending
has nearly doubled from approximately $3,000 per student to just
under $6,000 per student. However the SAT scores continue to
decline, causing U.S. Education Secretary Lamar Alexander to remark:
"We in the 80s went from spending $160 billion to $400 billion [on
education at all levels] without much improvement in results." In
fact, from kindergarten through twelfth grade, the United States
spends more per student than any other country, except Switzerland.
Only 60 percent of the money even gets to the classroom. At least 40
percent goes to maintaining the educational bureaucracy..
Cost of Public Education Rising
According to Albert Shanker, president of the American Federation of
Teachers (second largest teachers’ union):
One of the major differences between American schools and all others
in the world is that we spend half of our money on bureaucracy,
whereas the other schools in the world don’t spend more than 20
percent… You know, have about one teacher to every twenty-five kids
in the country but we have one supervisor for every six teachers.
Former Secretary of Education, William Brock emphasized that public
education is a failing bureaucracy out of control:
We have public education at the elementary and secondary level that
ranks below every industrial competitor we have in the world…
Education is the most backward single institution in all the U.S. It
is not for lack of money. It’s lack of intelligence and will and
competence. It is bureaucratic inertia that is unbelievable and
inexcusable. Between thirty-eight cents and forty-one cents of
our education dollar gets to the classroom. This is an act of
irrationality… In the city of New York there are more administrators
than there are in all of France. In the state of New York, there are
more administrators than there are in all of the European Community,
and the E.C. has twelve countries and 320 million people.
Time, 23 Sept 1990
THE PHILISOPHICAL CRISIS
The philosophy of the class room in one generation will be the
philosophy of government in the next.
Abraham Lincoln
A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not
know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to
do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we
have been about.
Woodrow Wilson
It’s About Power
...we Americans are locked in a cultural war for the soul of our
country. What is it all about? As columnist Sam Francis writes, it
is about power; it is about who determines "the norms by which we
live, and by which we define and govern ourselves." Who
decides what is right and wrong, moral and immoral, beautiful and
ugly, healthy and sick? Whose beliefs shall form the basis of law.
Give me the child for six years, Lenin reportedly said, quoting the
Jesuits, and he will be a Marxist forever.
Patrick Buchanan
Houston Chronicle, Sept 13, 1992
Liberal Training Ground
...public education is the training ground, the hothouse, the farm
team, for the next generation of liberals. How else to inculcate
multiculturalism, political correctness and historical revisionism
into children? How else to drum into them the view that they evolved
from slime, that sex is an intramural sport and that liberal agenda
is best? Children might not be expected to encounter these "truths"
on their own and are even less likely to learn them in private
schools, especially private, religious schools where a real
education, a moral conscience and wisdom can still be found. Public
education is not about education. In too many instances it is about
propagandizing and controlling the minds and hearts (and bodies) of
the next generation. Without public schools, liberalism would
qualify as an endangered species. With them, liberals hope to train
sufficient numbers of left-thinking drones to replace them when they
are gone.
Cal Thomas AFA Journal, April 1993
Rioting in the Streets
Where did the L.A. mob come from? It came out of public
schools from which the Bible and Ten Commandments were long ago
expelled. It came out of drugstores where pornography is everywhere
on the magazine rack. It came out of movie theaters and away from TV
sets where sex and violence are romanticized. It came out of rock
concerts where rap music extols raw lust and cop killing. It came
out of churches that long ago gave themselves up to social action,
and it came out of families that never existed.
The secularists who have captured our culture have substituted a New
Age Gospel, with its governing axioms: There are no absolute values
in the universe; there are no fixed and objective standards of right
and wrong. There is no God. It all begins here and ends here. Every
man lives by his own moral code. Do your own thing. Well, the mob
took them at their word, and did its own thing.
Patrick Buchanan
Houston Chronicle, Sept 13, 1992.
Bias Against Free Market
I asked Nobelist economist Milton Friedman why most American
students still graduate from high schools not only with low
performance but with such a socialist perspective … His answer was
characteristically clear: "Because they are products of a socialist
system. How can you expect such a system to inculcate the values of
enterprise and competition, when it is based on monopoly state
ownership?" Friedman is absolutely right. America’s public education
system is a Socialist system in which the government takes money
from those who do not send their children to public school (and who
still must pay to educate their children privately) and uses that
money to endlessly support a bloated educational monopoly. The
public schools hate competition, so how can they teach it?
Columnist Warren Brookes
The Right Choice– Home Schooling,
Christopher Klicka
"I am as sure as I am of Christ’s reign that a comprehensive and
centralized system of national education, separated from religion,
as is now commonly proposed, will prove the most appalling enginery
for the propagation of anti-Christian and atheistic unbelief, and of
anti-social nihilistic ethics, individual, social and political,
which this sin rent world has ever seen."
Dr. A.A. Hodge , Popular Lectures on Theological Themes
(Philadelphia Presbyterian Board of Publications, 1887)
I am much afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell
unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and
engraving them in the hearts of youth. I advise no one to place his
child where the Scriptures do not reign paramount. Every
institution in which men are not unceasingly occupied with the word
of God must become corrupt.
Martin Luther
SPIRITUAL CRISIS
The Battle for Our Children
Taking place at this moment is a major battle for our children’s
minds. This is a philosophical battle which has significant
spiritual ramifications. The battle for our children’s minds is
being waged by those who have a Christian mind-set (requiring the
teaching of Scripture as the basis of all knowledge), and the
humanists (who believe man is the measure of all things). The
humanists goal, as envisioned by many of the founders and present
operators of the public school system, is to use education to
manipulate and control masses of students.
The Right Choice– Home Schooling
Satan’s goal is to capture a child’s mind
Education=Religion
What is education? In simple terms, education is the transmission of
basic skills and values to the next generation. It is inescapably
religious, and it cannot be neutral.
Christoper Klicka
Every educational philosophy, every educational system, every
educational curriculum has an ultimate concern. In this sense, every
educational system is inescapably religious.
R. C. Sproul
There is no neutral ground in the universe: every square inch, every
split second, is claimed by God and counterclaimed by Satan.
C. S. Lewis
Removal of Prayer
David Barton, in his book America: To Pray or Not to Pray? documents
the apparent connection between the removal of prayer from the
public schools in 1962 by the U.S. Supreme Court in Engel v Vitale
and the drastic decline in the public schools. He demonstrates how,
beginning in 1962, SAT scores suddenly plummeted and teen
pregnancies, teen sexual diseases, teen suicides,violent crimes
among youths, teen alcohol and drug abuse, use of pornography among
students, and illiteracy rates abruptly increased 200 to 300
percent. Barton’s research shows that when God was removed
from the public schools, chaos set in.
The Right Choice– Home Schooling,
Christopher Klicka
Spiritual Influence
Of all dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity,
religion and morality are indispensable supports. …And let us with
caution indulge the supposition that morality may be maintained
without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of
refined education on minds… reason and experience both forbid us to
expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religion.
George Washington’s Farewell Address
The most powerful single influence in all history has been
Christianity. This influence has shown itself not only in the
religious beliefs and spirititual ideals of the human race, but in
the march of political events and institutions as well.
Compton’s Encyclopedia quoted in America: To Pray or Not To Pray,
David Barton.
Spiritual Battle
The goal of our instruction is love from a pure heart and a good
conscience and a sincere faith.
1 Timothy 1:5
Our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers,
against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness,
against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.
Ephesians 6:12
A Matter of the Heart
Human beings are never neutral with regard to God. Either we worship
God as Creator and Lord, or we turn away from Him. Because the heart
is directed either toward God or against God, theoretical thinking
is never as pure or autonomous as many would like to think. It seems
clear then that some people who appear to reject Christianity on
rational or theoretical grounds are, in fact, acting under the
influence of non-rational factors, that is, more ultimate
commitments of their hearts. The arguments they want the rest of us
to think were the grounds of their unbelief are in fact simply an
exercise in self-justification. The unbelief came first; then came
the arguments.
Closing of the American Heart
HUMANISM: NEW STATE RELIGION
Humanism simply means that man, rather than God, is the measure of
all things. The basic tenets of humanism as described in Humanist
Manifesto I and Humanist Manifesto II:
1.Humanism hold to an evolutionary explanation of both human rights
and development.
2.Humanism believes that the scientific method is applicable to all
areas of human concern and is the only means of determining truth.
3.Humanism affirms cultural relativism, the belief that values are
grounded only in a given culture and have no transcultural
normativity. [In the words of Humanist Manifest II, third thesis, it
says, "We affirm that moral values derive their source from human
experience. Ethics is autonomous and situational, needing no
theological or ideological sanction."]
4.Humanism affirms an anthropocentric and naturalistic view of life
[i.e. there is no supernatural God and man has no soul].
5.Humanism affirms an ethic of individualism, one in which personal
values take precedence over community standards for behavior.
[Humanist Manifesto II, sixth and seventh thesis, advocates any type
of sexual behavior between consenting adults, euthanasia, and the
right to suicide.]
6.Humanism affirms cultural determinism, the belief that values in a
given society are largely determined by environmental circumstances.
7.Humanism believes in the innate goodness and perfectibility of
man.
HUMANISM IN THE CLASSROOM
"The battle for humankind’s future must be waged and won in the
public school classroom by teachers who correctly perceive their
role as the proselytizers of a new faith: A religion of humanity . .
. utilizing a classroom instead of a pulpit to carry humanist values
into whatever they teach . . . "The classroom must and will
become an arena of conflict between the old and the new — the
rotting corpse of Christianity, together with all its adjacent evils
and misery, and the new faith of humanism…"
John J. Dunphy, Prize Winning Essay
in The Humanist, Jan/Feb 1983
Establishment of Religion
Children in the public schools have been reliably prohibited from
learning any kind of aspect of Christianity (except to degrade it),
in the name of avoiding the "establishment of religion." However,
the empty moral vacuum has been filled to the brim with warped
occult practices and the tenets of humanism. If this is not an
"establishment of religion," I do not know what it is!
Christopher Klicka
The Right Choice– Home Schooling
Dewey once wrote that "faith in the prayer-hearing God is an
unproved and outmoded faith. There is no God and there is no soul.
Hence, there are no needs for the props of traditional religion.
With dogma and creed excluded, then immutable truth is also dead and
buried. There is not room for fixed, natural law or moral
absolutes."
Ronald H. Nash
The Closing of the American Heart.
The Occult in the Classroom
In the Impressions curricula children are also forced to read
anthologies that describe violent ritual practices, including a poem
by Jack Pretlutsy called "The Sorceress." This poem describes the
sorceress casting spells, entering trances, and sending souls to
hell, where the demons rejoice with the arrival of each additional
soul. Children are also required to role play as witches, and the
program applies the symbols, belief systems, and practices of
witchcraft and neo-paganism. The curriculum publishers and creators
of the programs, in fact, have developed training seminars for
teachers to instruct them on how to counter parental objection to
these insidious programs.
The Right Choice– Home Schooling
Horace Mann
Horace Mann, called "the father of public education," became the
first secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education in 1837. …
His goal was to create a non-sectarian school system, and he
envisioned that education would bring salvation to society. He
wanted to establish "a new religion, with the state as its true
church, and education as its Messiah." Mann stated: "What the church
has been for medieval man the public school must become for
democratic and rational man. God will be replaced by the concept of
the public good… The common schools… shall create a more far-seeing
intelligence and pure morality than has ever existed among
communities of men." Horace Mann and other proponents of
public education were intent on reforming society by changing the
values of children. Mann had little sympathy for Calvinists or
Catholics, and he was determined to use every legal means— including
state coercion in schooling— to ensure that other people’s children
were taught the truth as he understood it.
Richard Baer
Cutting Traditional Values
People in control of education have, to be sure, stripped away
important content, leaving many of our students functionally and
culturally illiterate. But in an even more sinister way, ideologues
committed to their own secular, humanistic agenda have succeeded in
cutting traditional moral and religious values from what our
students learn while cleverly making it appear that the substitute
(which is really simply a different religion) is a neutral
alternative. No real progress towards improving American education
can occur until all concerned realize that an education that ignores
moral and religious values cannot qualify as a quality education.
Closing of the American Heart
Teachers Out of Touch with Values
"The Connecticut Mutual Life Report on American Values in the 80’s:
The Impact of Belief."
Public Teachers
ABORTION WRONG 65% 26%
PREMARITAL SEX WRONG 40% 27%
HOMOSEXUALITY WRONG 70% 30%
PORNOGRAPHY WRONG 68% 50%
SEX BEFORE AGE 16 WRONG 71% 54%
MOTHER WORKING NOT GOOD 72% 46%
Weakening the Pillars
"the crisis that threatens us, the force that could topple our
monuments and destroy our very foundations, is within ourselves. The
crisis is in the character of our culture, where the values that
restrain inner vices and develop inner virtues are eroding.
Unprincipled men and women, disdainful of their moral heritage and
skeptical of Truth itself, are destroying our civilization by
weakening the very pillars upon which it rests."
Charles Colson
Against the Night
Christian World View
It is important to recognize that it is impossible to separate one’s
view of education from his or her world view. A teacher’s world
view, for example, influences her educational philosophy which
influences her educational policy which in turn influences her
educational practice. One’s philosophy of education will always be a
reflection of a more general world and life view. A Christian
philosophy of education is based unapologetically upon a Christian
view of life and the world. A Christian philosophy of education
recognizes that all human knowledge is distorted and fragmented. It
knows that education is never neutral; its ultimate dependence on
philosophical and religious presuppositions is a fact of life. What
sets a truly Christian education apart is the Christian’s acceptance
of the biblical perspective (that is, the framework of convictions
found in Scripture) as normative and authoritative.
Closing of the American Heart
A Two Class Society
According to Paul Vitz, a professor of psychology at New York
University, the struggle over American education is more than a
battle to end functional and cultural illiteracy. The real conflict
reflects a cultural war "between those who are religious and support
traditional values and those who are secular and advocate
anti-traditional or modernist values." Those on the side of
religious, traditional values include conservative Protestants and
Catholics and Jews. "They have in common the same God, the same
commitment to family, and the same general moral values. Today,
America is dividing into a new two-class society— one committed to
religion and conservative, traditional values and the other
committed to secular and liberal, modernist values." The real war
over American education, then, is between these two camps. Of
course, the effective participants in the struggle understand this.
But the majority of Americans do not and hence often misunderstand
what is really going on.
Closing of the American Heart
A Commitment to Our Children
The moral crisis in the public schools is acute, and we as a nation
are already reaping the consequences in the rise of violence, crime,
sexual diseases, divorce, selfishness, various forms of paganism and
the occult, and a growing rejection of God’s absolute moral
standards. In the name of "neutrality," the public schools are
steadily and many times subtly assaulting the traditional family and
destroying the minds of our youth. We, as adults, should do all we
can to "clean up" the public schools, but can we afford to lose our
children in the process? The public schools’ curriculum and
atmosphere clearly oppose God and His laws. Christians armed with
this information can no longer be held guiltless in regard to their
children’s education.
The Right Choice– Home Schooling
Citizens of a Different World
For the secular individual in a secular society, the American system
of education may be the finest that has ever existed in the history
of the world. But Christian children are not secular individuals.
They are citizens of a different country with a different set of
values, a different set of standards, and a different idea of truth.
When we [Christian] parents give our sons and daughters to the state
for education, we invite the values, standards, and untruths of a
godless cosmos to penetrate their spirits, and that is not healthy
for any family, especially the Christian family.
Kenneth Gangel
Schooling Choices
Sacred vs. Secular
The world is not composed of religious and non-religious people. It
is composed rather of religious people who have differing ultimate
concerns, different gods, and who respond to the Living God in
different ways.… All humans are incurably religious; we simply
manifest different religious allegiances. It is absurd, then, to
think that the choice in public education is between sacred and
secular. Whatever choice the state makes under the current modes of
thinking will only establish one person’s set of ultimate concerns
at the expense of others. An education that pretends to be
religiously neutral is a fraud. Secular Humanism, as we should all
know by now, is a religious world view as certainly as Christianity
and Judaism. It expresses the ultimate commitments and concerns of
its proponents.
Closing of the American Heart
Pupil not above Teacher
"A pupil is not above his teacher: but everyone, after he has been
fully trained, will be like his teacher"
Luke 6:40
Who are your children going to become like?
RECOMMENDED READING
The Right Choice: The incredible failure of public education and the
rising hope of Home Schooling
Christopher J. Klicka
America: To Pray or Not to Pray
David Barton
The Closing of the American Heart
Ronald H. Nash
The Seduction of Our Children
Neil T. Anderson & Steve Russo
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