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HOME SCHOOLING - AN
ALTERNATIVE TO PUBLIC "EDUCATION"
It is becoming clearly obvious to many parents that something is very wrong with the public education system. Each
year fewer students graduate with sufficient academic and cognitive skills, violence and immorality continue to
rise, and this continues unabated despite never-ending mammoth funding to the local and federal Departments of
Education by the government.
The reasons for this are simple to
understand. Primarily psychiatrists and behavioral psychologists now run the schools. Behaviorism views man as an
animal, to be manipulated and controlled within planned environments. The modern public school system represents
the psycholgists attempts to create a "planned environment" which will act upon the student, modify thier ideas,
beliefs, and values, and thereby alter their behavior (to bring about a new and different society). Instead of
academics aimed at increasing the individuality and self-determinism of the student, we now have behavioral
engineering and psychotherapy aimed at "feelings" and the "socialization" of
the child.
The key person behind all this as relates to modern education was John Dewey.,
professor of philosophy and psychology at Columbia Teachers College. Wilhelm Wundt,
a German experimental psychologist, began the shift of concern from man's "mind" or "soul" to raw animal
behavior. Philosophically, the tendency of all modern psychology since has been to deny and eradicate the human
mind and all it does, and instead forward and promote the notion of Man as another animal, as just another part
of Nature, and subject to scientiific laws of stimulus-response and genetic evolution. This is why modern public
education is a disaster.
Outcome-based-education (OBE) is largely the product of the major "learning labs"
and foundations which employ only psychologists and behavioral engineers. It is all about social manipulation,
planning and bring about a "new planned society", and very little about what we all assume education to be -
learning to read, write, arithmetic (logic) and develop intellectual, cognitive and academic skills. OBE has the
support of funding and legislation in almost if not all states. It's not going away. A large, dedicated,
influencial, and very well-funded group of folks intend to use the public education system as their means of
modifying the beliefs and behavior of the coming generation.
A study of the history of public
education makes it clear that it has always been viewed with "social" agenda in mind above all else.
See what Frederick Taylor Gates, of the General Education Board, back in the late 1800s
had to say about the purpose of public education - it wasn't to bring out the best of each and every
person.
Modern public education represents almost
100 years of intensive planning, funding and behind the scenes controlling by the National Education
Assocation (NEA), wealthy individuals and philanthropic foundations, and various humanist
organizations. The common link to these all has been the infuence or support of psychiatry,
behavioral psychology, cultural anthropoly and sociology - the social sciences. And the aim of these is simply
to use "science" to control and birng about a new world order (as they, the elite materialistic "authorities"
conceive this to be). The goal is a "social concept", a "State"
view, and not improving or bringing out the best of any individual child.
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