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This section is dedicated to fixing the ills
and problems with our public education system and in lauding and praising
efforts to improve it that are effective.
POEM ON GUN CONTROL AND PRAYER IN THE SCHOOLS:
Your laws ignore our deepest needs
Your words are empty air
You've stripped away our heritage
You've outlawed simple prayer
Now gunshots fill our classrooms
And precious children die
You seek for answers everywhere
And ask the question "Why"
You regulate restrictive laws
Through legislative creed
And yet you fail to understand
That God is what we need!
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Current News
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Historical Articles
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Stupid In School (OFFSITE LINK) - John Stossel
- Socialist Public
Schools or Home Schooling?-Nancy Levant
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Education Under Heaven - book by Embassy of Heaven
- Bushwhacking Johnny-how
cognitive dissonance is used in the public schools to brainwash
children to be immoral
- Schools Must Comply
with Federal Prayer Guidelines-Family News in Focus
- Guidance on Constitutionally
Protected Prayer in Public Elementary and Secondary Schools-U.S.
Dept. of Education
- Gender Gap: Boys Lagging-CBS
News 60 Minutes special report
- Deliberate Dumbing
Down of America-book about education reform
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Education-TrueNews Issues Library
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We Be Dumb-Alfred Adask, Suspicions Magazine. Stupid practices
of public schools
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Why Schools Teach Socialism-Alfred Adask, Suspicions Magazine
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Should Schools Teach Values?-Antisyster Magazine
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Issues Library: Education-Townhall
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De-Worshipping Public Education-Karen DeCosetr
- Falling Grades:
How Education Unions Ruined the Public Schools-American Spectator
- Bill Gates Speech--How
our educational system has set our kids up for failure in real life.
This may be the reason why European schools have apprenticeship
programs at the high school level!
- Guide to the School Prayer
Debate-David Barton
- The New School Prayer
- One School's Prayer
- Research Tools-Family
Guardian
- Questia-largest
online library on the internet
- Google Books-large
collection of online scanned books. Excellent!
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Archive.org
books-large collection of scanned books
- Library
of Congress
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Cliff's Notes
- Wikipedia-free
internet encyclopedia
- BrainyHistory.com
- Brainy
Quote
- WikiQuote
- Brainy
Geography
- Reference
Desk
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ThinkQuest
Library-Oracle
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Bill Gates on State Budgets (OFFSITE LINK) - Gates predicts
a HUGE meltdown in the educational system because of government
deficit spending
- Great Books of the
Western World (OFFSITE) - essential reading
- Book IV.
That the Laws of Education Ought to Be in Relation to the Principles
of Government-Spirit
of Laws, Montesquieu. This is the book upon which the
Founding Fathers wrote our Constitution and established our government
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Underground History of American Education-free book by John
Gatto about how public schools have become a factory for submissive,
"manageable" Americans. Author is a former teacher of the
year in New York City
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Heritage Foundation: Education Research
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A Primer on America's Schools-online book by Terry M. Moe.
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Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Education
(OFFSITE LINK)-John Gatto
- "To teach is to learn again."--A Father's Book of Wisdom, H.
Jackson Brown
- "The greatest ignorance is to reject something you known nothing
about."--A Father's Book of Wisdom, H. Jackson Brown
- "You are the same today that you'll be five years from now except
for two things: the people you meet and the books you read."--Mac
McMillan
- "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge..!"-- Bible,
Hosea 4:6
- "There is nothing more terrifying than ignorance in action."--Goethe;
Engraved on a plaque at the Naval War College
- "Never let your schooling interfere with your education." (Anonymous)
- If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. (Derek Bok,
president of Harvard)
- "Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing
army." (Edward Everett)
- "The only new thing in this world is the history you do not
know" (President Harry S. Truman)
- "Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean
to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which
knowledge gives." -- James Madison (Letter to W.T. Barry, August
4, 1822)
- "Reason obeys itself; and ignorance does whatever is dictated
to it." -- Thomas Paine, Rights of Man
- "Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate
from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized
by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among stones." -- Charlotte
Bronte, 1816-1855
- Not to know is bad; not to wish to know is worse. (Nigerian
Proverb)
- "With the advent of the Internet and the richness of available
information, people can do their own learning now. They no longer
need a 'sage on the stage' as their teacher. Instead, they need
a 'guide on the side' who facilitates their learning and guides
them in their self-study." (Anonymous)
- "I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of society
but the people themselves, and if we think them not enlightened
enough to exercise control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy
is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion." --
Thomas Jefferson
- "Some students drink at the fountain of knowledge, others just
gargle." (Anonymous)
- "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of
civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." -- Thomas
Jefferson
- "The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is
able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing
superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion
that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable,
and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And even if he
is not romantic personally he is very apt to spread discontent among
those who are." -- H. L. Mencken, writing in Smart Set magazine,
December 1919
(parody-was
George Orwell right?)
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