If we can’t understand our adversary we may defeat them, but
we will never know what it is that motivated them. This lack of understanding leaves us open to
assault by the same forces in the future.
If we wish not only to defeat Barack Obama and the forces of
Progressivism in the November elections but also to set America on the path to
restoration we must understand the root cause of the Progressive delusion and
modern Liberalism which Michael Savage has correctly labeled a mental illness, and I consider a Socially Transmitted Disease.
If you want to understand something it is necessary to learn
where it came from and how it came to be.
Even if President Obama was educated partially in his adopted country of
Indonesia he is a prime
example of the assembly-line progressive education that has become the norm in America today: bash America
We’ve all heard horror stories of the anti-American bilge
being pumped into our youth in today’s schools, so the following personal
experiences shouldn’t shock anyone too much.
As an educator I participated in a program that combined
college and high school classes so that students could earn credit towards
their high school diploma and at the same time work on an Associate Degree. I
was happy to work in this program, and I helped many hard working students earn
their Associates at the same time they earned their high school diploma giving
them a decided advantage when they went on for their Bachelor degree.
During the course of my years in the trenches of blended
education I was in control of the college side of the class; however, I had no
authority to stop the blatant dissemination of Progressive propaganda that made
up the totality of some teachers’ curriculum.
While in the classroom I strive to present material in such a way as to
lead students in the direction of critical thinking. I would present both sides and urge students
to evaluate and come to their own conclusions.
Many times after a semester of teaching Political Science students would
come up and ask, “Now that the class is over tell us, which are you a
conservative or a liberal?”
Many of my high school teacher colleagues were not so
subtle. Here are two examples that were
more the rule than the exception in many classes:
1. One
Political Science class had the following assignment; watch
Fahrenheit 9/11by Michael Moore and then write an essay on how many ways
President Bush lied to trick America
2. In
a History class the students were assigned to read Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle and then write an essay on the dehumanizing effects
of capitalism.
The list of such blatant and crude attempts to mold our
children into good little Progressives that I witnessed would fill a book on
how not to teach, but this is nothing new.
I am sixty three years old and though not as out-in-the-open or
in-your-face I was subjected to the same type of illiberal liberalism when I
was a youngster in school.
In grade school I did encounter one History teacher who had
been in the profession since before my father was born. She still thought it a good thing to teach
American History as an objective subject instead of a vehicle for her own
agenda. She inspired students to look
at the evidence and think. She however
was the exception. From Math to English,
from Geography to History teachers were constantly extolling the benefits of
government social programs and depicting America
In high school I was suspended for accusing a Social Studies
teacher of being a communist. Years
later he admitted that he in fact had been a communist since the forties. Another teacher rejected any History paper
that he felt was too patriotic which he dismissed as jingoism. A teacher of Russian spent more time in class
extolling the virtues of the USSR
The Progressives realized long ago that if they could take
over the nation’s education system they could raise up generations of Americans
with no conception of the uniqueness of America
So as the wisest woman I have ever known, my wife asks me,
“What can we do now?”
Back in the early 90s we decided that what we needed to do
was go to school so that we could become teachers. Neither of us wants to impose our ideas on
others, but we do want to present the materials in an objective manner and help
our students acquire the critical thinking skills necessary to be informed
citizens. Whenever a student asks me to
figure out what their grade is during a semester I tell them, “If you give a man a fish he will eat for a day. If
you teach him to fish he can eat forever.” I then proceed to teach them how to find an
average and how to translate that into a letter grade.
What can we do now?
We can’t all become teachers but we can all become involved in our local
school boards. We can all do our due
diligence and find out what is being taught at our local schools, and we can
follow the procedures to correct what is wrong and implement what is
right. One thing is for sure if we do
not regain control of our schools we will lose the future. Our leaders are leading us down the primrose
path to collectivism. Our education
establishment is conditioning America America
In 1962 the leader of the socialist
slave camp we knew as the USSR, Nikita
Khrushchev, said “The
United States will eventually fly the Communist red flag…The American people
will raise it themselves. We can't
expect the American People to jump from Capitalism to Communism, but we can
assist their elected leaders in giving them small doses of Socialism, until
they awaken one day to find that they have Communism.”
Education has led the way to this precipice and only
education can lead our way back. If we
don’t learn from our mistakes and once again begin building up America
Did we win the Cold War defeating
an enemy dedicated to our destruction to end up proving the wisdom of a cartoon character, “We have met the enemy and he is
us”?
Dr. Owens teaches History, Political Science, and Religion. He is the Historian of the Future @ http://drrobertowens.com © 2012 Robert R.
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