America…Public Propaganda Part 5

“I wish my fellow citizens were better educated about the above, but alas, the government controls over 90% of education, and tends not to reveal its own faults. In fact, public schools don’t even distinguish between the concepts of “nation” and “national government”, so most Americans don’t even know that they are distinct. We are taught to think of the federal government as “the nation”. Only philosophers know that the nation is all of its citizens, not just a ruling hierarchy (if you know the difference, then you are a philosopher).

Perhaps the most dangerous aspect of public education is that it conditions future generations to support central control, thereby perpetuating authoritarianism. Merely by immersing children in a government environment from an early age, especially one that dominates their parents even when parents are idols to their kids, we impress young minds with an unhealthy, unconscious sense of government eminence that can last well into adulthood. Therefore, government run schools are inherently antithetical to liberty. I dare say that if there had been examples of public schools back when the founders wrote the bill of rights, we would have a separation of school and state as surely as we have a separation of church and state.

The powers that be do not want to raise critical thinkers; they want to groom complacent, loyal subjects who will fit like cogs in an industrial machine or march off to war when summoned (while politicians’ own children are groomed for leadership in private schools). Every government school system in the world has encouraged unthinking loyalty to that government. The totalitarian Nazis and Soviets are only the unvarnished right and left extremes.”

From Public Propaganda