Changing Motives of Education in America:

From Virtue to Loss of Virtue

1492-1860..... Learning was appreciated, young students willing to work at it, and pay a price. Original home schools and free-enterprise schools, private tutors Constitution does not give federal government power over children's training.
The training of children is left to parents and free-enterprise system, not the state.
Knowledge had not yet abounded, so people learned the basics.
They understood knowledge is power. They understood people are destroyed for their lack of knowledge. They understood priority in knowledge, that is to say, they knew things had to be rightly divided if they were to be rightly understood.
Children were taught the foundational truths. They studied the seed, the root, the trunk and branches of any system of knowledge, then a few leaves for good example. Not like 1997 when children are given so many leaves blowing in the wind and teachers call that an education.

Noah Webster, America's First Schoolmaster, wrote his dictionary filled with scripture
Webster's Dictionary, Bible, Blueback Speller, history books and more
Sounding out words, phonics, High expectations of young children,
CLick here to request the book about Noah Webster and why he was called America's First Schoolmaster. $8.00 postage paid.

1600-1920 Absolute Law and Blackstone's Law Commentary is the standard for law interpretation. Teaching Absolute Law, The laws of nature and of God

1754-1763....French and Indian War,
....Sometimes called the Fourth Intercolonial War.
The last and most decisive conflict between France and England in their struggle for possession of America. It happened during the same period as the Seven Years' War in Europe.
It was a school laboratory lesson for the Americans to learn many things. For example, George Washington learned the value of sea power from when the British overcame the French fleet as part of their european war made it impossible for the French to continue using warships to continue their war against the American colonists. (Ref. Ency. Brit. 1952, Vol. 20, pages 388-395
This lesson was to play a great part during the war for independence. Washington has been noted, by British and Germans, for his grasp of the importance of sea power.
The German leader of the day congratulated G. Washington in his strategy. Contrary to modern revisionist text books at Rider High School in Wichita Falls, Tx and around the nation calling Washington a mediocer general. Washington planned a strategically great campaign around a short interval of time when the French fleet would be able to assist the Americans in taking a major British fort.

The French-Indian war in North America occured primarily for the following reasons.

• The colonies wanted freedom from French and Indian attacks on their homes.
• The French wanted to link up their land in Canada, especially on the St. Lawrence , with their land on the Mississippi. This link seemed essential to the French.
• Some Indian tribes were glad to ally with the French as a way of fighting the colonists who were invading their land. The Indians wanted their land back from the colonists and were glad to get guns and powder from the French to attack the Americans.
• The English colonies wanted room for westward expansion.
• Neither the colonies nor the English wanted to be surrounded by the French.
• Control of the Ohio valley was the cause of this renewed fighting between French and English forces.
• The French fired upon a troop of Virginian troops under the command of George Washington.

1760.....After the fall of Montreal, on Sept. 8, 1760, the French signed terms of capitulation and the French-Indian war against the British and colonists was officially over, though some scattered Indian fighting continued for several more years, even up to as late as 1767.

1763........Treaty of Paris transferred Canada and all its dependencies to the English crown thus ending a rivalry in North America that had lasted a hundred and fifty years. (Source Ency. Brit. 1952) See Encyclopedia Britannica, 1952, Volume 9- page 755 for most of the above on the French and Indian War. Current revisionist history books play down any cooperation between the colonies just like they degrade General George Washington. According to British sources, the Americans were learning more and more all the time that they could cooperate, because men of different colonies came together on many occassions, for council and for war against the French and the Indians and to cooperate with the British. George Washington saw the British losses and saw the disjointed actions that contributed to those losses. This gave him strong lessons on the need for coordination between the colonies. Yes, it was a learning time. It was a growing time of recognizing unity in certain defence needs and goals that were one and the same for all the colonies. They all faced common enemies and this helped them recognize a need for a united defence. If you've only read revisionist history books, you need to start over and read some old history books, over a hundred years old, before it became popular to downgrade America in its early years. Or read something from people who love the true foundations of American liberty. Then you can read the truth about America. The Founding Fathers were not perfect, but they were a far cry from the descriptions given by those who run them down to take away good heros from our children. And in taking away the hero, they try to take away the things for which the men fought. As Karl Marx recognized, and the Father of Modern Education, John Dewey, take away the true roots of a people and they can easily be swayed. Don't let that happen to your children. Give them some true history stories, complete stories, tied together with true life experiences they can enjoy reading and get the sense and feeling of the time. Today's disjointed history books with isolated dates and names are designed to pass tests on dates and names with no understanding of what it was all about. Such courses are a fraud, a crime upon the children and the parents. A crime, against the warning of our Founding Fathers to teach our children the reasons why they risked life and fortune to fight the War of Independence, is committed every time a child is graduated without knowing enough American history to fill a thimble...

1759 to 1766 Seven Year French-Indian War over territory against British and colonies.
1759...British colonies in America together with the British fight off the French attacks from Canada.
French allied with certain of the northern Indians to fight for the land from New York to Detroit.
The battle was still raging for which nation had control of the land from the Canadian border on down south.
Indian tribes had on occassion masacred English and other settlers.

1759...Rogers Rangers were a group of militia from the colonies to fight off the indians.

American's knew they needed the British if for nothing else just to fight off the French and their Indian allies.
Families were tomahawked in their cabins. Babies brains were beat out against trees, and women were taken captive by the Indians. Stories spread through the colonies and armed retaliation was the result, through groups like Rogers Rangers. See the old movie now on video, Northwest Passage.

Once the French were no longer a threat to the Americans, it was natural for them not to see so much need for the British warships and troops to be so abundant in their colonies.

The French-Indian war lasted approximately seven years, coinciding with the Seven Years War in Europe between France and England. The British government was deeply in debt after fighting those two wars on two different continents. British Parliament looked to the colonies as a source of revenue to help refill the treasury. Taxation was applied to recoup war expenditures. 1775...British excessive taxation placed on nearly every thing in America.
..........Tax stamps for birth, death, nearly every act of commerce, and it was oppressive.
.......... Colonies were still looking for reconciliation,
..........but they wanted to be treated as British subjects under common law, not taxed severely as foreigners.
..........British Parliament decided they would show those impudent American's who was boss.
They would shame America with armed and forced control of their major sea ports, and tax nearly every act of life.

1775....George Washington and troops successfully fought off British attempt to shame colonies.

1776.....Men and women fought for what they believed were their God given liberties and trusted God to give them win the victory. It was called the War for Independence.
It is incorrectly called a revolution, because a revolution destroys the prior government.
America did not destroy the government of England. America fought for its freedom to exercise its God given rights as declared in the Declaration,...endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights... The English government was trying to destroy those rights.
Today, we are losing many of those rights, indeed have already lost many of them.
But people don't know enough history to realize what's happened. The big government educrats like it that way. That way it's easier for them to continue expanding their governmental monopoly on education, taxation, and training of children according to politically correct filters.

1800......American's realized children had to learn the history of what had been given to them.
Schools and universities were set up to teach our form of government under God and the things of nature, etc. More schools were established in the ten years after the War for Independence than in the 150 years before.

1800....George Washington said our children ought to be taught the understanding of their own government before going overseas to learn another system.
We have failed to teach our children the roots of their own government.
Noah Webster taught the correct understanding of our republican government was to be found in the Bible, as our leaders said in those days.

1830..... Horace Mann works ten years to get state school in Pennsylvannia that is void of God, that does not teach the things of God.

1820-1830.....Pennsylvannia Christian parents went to sleep
....................about training up their children in godly schools.
1820-1830....Pastors too went to sleep at their watch.
...................Genesis teaches us to reproduce children who know God.
...................State schools do not teach children to know God.

1830....American Sunday School League formed to give children
........... the Bible training they could no longer get in state schools.

1850....... State schools, void of God, pretty well the norm in all states.
............... A few teachers and a few schools kept godly reference,
............... but for the most part the emphasis was gone.

1850 European Socialism revival, Hegel, Karl Marx, communism,
..................became the roots of the humanist manifesto
.................as written and signed by the Father of Modern Education,
................ John Dewey, in 1933.

1860 German state school system copied and brought to America Click here to read more about German state school brought to America

18xx Ph.D. degree from europe brought to America, intellectual elitism

1859.....1956 Charles Darwin's Modified Theory of Evolution Accepted:
Reinforced Relativism and Positivism as replacements for Absolutes
Struck at foundation of Christianity,
replaced fall of man with rise of man.
therefore no need for Salvation,
Man is just a complex interaction of learned reflexes and responses,
nothing more, B.F. Skinner
....................1956 Life Magazine cover says God is dead.

1870..... Evolutionary Law begun to be taught in law school

1883.....American History books still taught the historical events and examples of our nation's god fearing founders. I have one of those books. It tells enough of the story of events, circumstances, and thoughts of the people that a child can see what happened. Unlike today's history books. It tells of George Washington calling ten thousand troops together for a devotional time to God to give thanks after winning a battle. "On the Fourth of July, 1775, Washington issued an order to the forces, in which he said, that as the Continental Congress had taken all troops into its service, they were thenceforth 'the troops of the United Provinces of North America; and it is hoped that all distinctions of Colonies will be laid aside, so that one and the same spirit may animate the whole." He added, 'The General requires and expects of all officers not engaged on actual duty, a punctual attendance on divine service, to implore the blessings of Heaven upon the means used for our safety and defence."

1900.....Colonel Robert Ingersoll one of the first in America to openly, proudly, and boldly work as a humanist. He aggressively attacked Judaism and Christianity, trying to remove the Judeo-Christian ethic from America. He wanted a new religion. He said, "We are laying the foundation of the grand temple of the future...wherein...will be celebrated the religion of Humanity...We are looking for the time when...REASON, throned upon the world's brain, shall be the King of Kings, and God of Gods." See David Barton's wonderful book Keys to Good Government.
Order it here.

1920..... Oliver Wendell Holmes, declares evolutionary law from bench of Supreme Court

1920..... Relative Positivism accentuated in colleges and universities, humanism grows.

1922 Schools still used books with wisdom in them. A fifth grade reader in my personal library from ..............with a copyright date of 1920 is above many seniors in high school today.

1929-1940....German church leaders and school teachers too weak,
...................too blind, too deceived to stand for righteousness and truth.
.................. They called evil good and became participators.
.................. Hitler came to power and
...................the church pastors and public school teachers helped.
...................They publicly allowed his teachings and attitudes.
................... What would Jesus have said?
................... What would Jesus have had His people say or do? .................. Previously, Germany had been a strong protestant nation.
.................. They all claimed to be good Christians and would have taken offense
.................. at the suggestion they were doing anything unChristian.
.................. Sort of like today.
...................Same doctrine of evolution taught to the children today
................... Same as Hitler did for his extermination programs.
................... When life is cheapened, murder is cheap and meaningless.
.................. When God is ignored, LIFE is ignored.
....................When the greed principle of profit is the motivating desire instead of righteousness of God, then all sorts of evil enters into trade. When decisions are based on dollars, then the man is serving mamon. Only in a lie can it be concluded that the highest profit equals the highest good. Only in a lie of deception can a believer acquiese to evil.

1933..... Humanist Manifesto: Penned by John Dewey, the shamefully so-called Father of American Education. Humanist Manifesto is an Amerikanized version of the Communist Manifesto.
Dewey penned it immediately after returning from Europe.
Stated goal to re-constitute churches, do away with traditional Christianity,
Deliver children from nationalism, Christian faith, loyalty to parents
See Communist (the euphemism is Socialist) workers handbook
See back of Catherine Millards book Re-Writing America's History, available from this site.

1940......Absolute Law nearly completely replaced with evolutionary law books.
Law students study evolving case law instead of original law.
Constitution is ignored, imaginative reason re-defines Constitution.

Supreme Court Justice ___________ says "It doesn't matter what the Constitution meant. What it means now is what I say it means." He believed in the theory of evolutionary law. Do you know his name and when this was said? You need to understand what has happened to American law. It's called RunAway supreme court.

1947 Bible classes were ordered off school campuses...see Everson case. I own a Bible study text book printed by the Dallas, Tx school district and used in Dallas schools prior to 1948. The run away foolish supreme court justice full of pride and empty of truth, ruled against all the founding fathers of this nation. They ruled against Noah Webster, George Washington, and hundreds of others. Then they followed up to more extremes in 1961,62, and 63. Everson Case by a teacher of constitutional law, Mr. Jeffrey.

1961,1963 blind supreme court ran away from its foundations again, removing prayer and the ten commandments, and public bible reading from schools for children

1952 Education is defined as having been achieved:
......................... when a student knows how to study and learn, even on his own
......................... the student grows up to hold the same good values of his parents
......................... the student has mastered a body of knowledge
......................... the child is capable of wise and independent thought,
..........................free from the crowd, self-reliant.
.........................Read the 1952 Britanica article on education
.........................and compare it to the 1996 World Book article!
........................ Difference is Parents were important in raising children,
........................ but now the state has to do it cause parents are too busy being drones.
........................ Worker drones to the god of Consumerism and State Taxes for Bigger Government.
....................... After all with Big Government, people don't have to think independently.
....................... Just work and watch tv. No time for kids.
....................... Parent's most sacred responsibility is turned over to an ungodly statist school.
........................Children are conditioned to think, act, and learn without reference to God.
........................And people wonder why the Bible says,
........................in the last days people will be without natural affection.

1956........Life Magazine cover blazes the words God is Dead.
............... Humanism dominant in churches, schools.

1958........Russian Sputnik goes in orbit.
............... America urged to seek knowledge for the sake of knowledge.
............... No time left at all for God in school, children have to learn the sliderule!
............... Children taught, learn all you can and you shall be as gods. See Genesis.

1960's..........Students scored higher, on a harder SAT test than today.
................... Students read more, better, faster.
.................. See the book Dumbing Down our Kids for documentation and
.................. explanation from the traditional view of our changing SAT test system.

1973.....Humanist Manifesto II only took forty years to get the second version.

1976......April, 1976, article by Paul Blanchard in The Humanist, said
.............. I think the most important factor moving us toward a secular society
.............. has been the educational factor.
.............. Our schools may not teach Johnny to read properly,
.............. but the fact that Johnny is in school until he is sixteen tends
.............. to lead toward the elimination of religious superstition.
............. The average American child now acquires a high-school education,
............. and this militates against Adam and Eve and all other myths of alleged history.
............. Humanism as a scholarly substitute for religious mythology is quietly
............. gaining ground, especially in the universities.

1983......A prominent figure in Washington D.C., Michael Harrington, wrote a book, The Politics at God's Funeral. Quote, "God is dead, and we had better bury Him. Long-accepted social and moral values, laws with biblical origins, and much more are still influencing western civilization. These must be rooted out. ...This new society will deny God-given law and morality in favor of allowing men to discover their own values. There will be no absolute truth, only situational and personal determination of truth."

Here again we have the original humanist manifesto:"...ye shall be as gods (like God), knowing good and evil" Genesis 3:5 KJV. Reference If The Foundations Be Destroyed , James T. Draper, Past President S.B.C.

1989.....School Board in Wichita Falls Texas decides its OK to by-pass parent authority, and go behind the backs of parents to indoctrinate their six year old boys and girls with the idea that they might not can trust their parents. Telling them they might have to call the police on their parents. This is called sex abuse education by the do gooders, but they fail to explain to the good parents that teachers are conditioning the children to doubt their parents actions and call the police if they quote Feel Bad unquote about something their parents do or say. When I complained about this, they still wanted to keep it a secret so they could catch the bad parents To do this, the powers that be subject the ninty-nine good parents and their children to the abuse of telling their children to call the police or school principal on the parents if the parents do or say something that makes them " feel bad ". Your child receives an early conditioning to doubt your loving intent towards him. Your child receives conditioning through the Good/Bad program to call police on his parents at the tender age of six, sometimes five. The program has run for ten years through the strength of the prestigious Junior League in Wichita Falls, Texas. When fathers and mothers have the sad experience of their child reacting to the program in fear, they are told, "You are the only one to complain. What's wrong?" The first year I saw this happen, I asked twenty parents about it. Twelve had experienced the results of a hurt child by that Bad/Good seminar at school. Most of those didn't know where it came from, they didn't know about the seminar. That's the way the Junior League wanted it to be, and the leading psychologist, and the other authorities. The parents just knew that for some strange reason, that night after the seminar their child seemed scared of them, as though someone had put in his head that his parent might hurt them, and he might have to call the police or the school principal. Four of those dads complained to the system.. Each told me they were told by the system, "Well, sir, what's wrong with you. You're the only one to complain." Of course the parents were kept from getting together in their complaint. The school system did nothing to help the parents contradict what they had ordained was righteous and good. The school system certainly did avoid any awareness from one parent to the next on those things that were unfavorable to the school. Most parents who experience some kind of reaction from their child don't even know what happened at school. This stock answer of "You're the only one to complain." is even recorded in Ft. Worth as being a nation wide answer, maybe not by design but just by plain convenience. Where is the systematic recording of parent objections in a public place where other parents can see what is happening? Would you trust the school system to be such a record keeper? Or would it need to be someone totally outside of the system? Even our Consitution shows awareness of the need for External Audits. External checks and balances. To see the school report on parent satisfaction, all you see is 95% satisfied on most things. That's because the school designs the questions for the survey. That's a foolish thing. The dictator designs the public questionaire for people to answer, why wouldn't the results be favorable.

1993.....Humanist Manifesto III The number of people agreeing with the goals to eradicate Christianity and Judeao-Christian history and ethics, just gets larger and larger..

1995.....New Standards for Historypublished, offered to Dept. Education
..................Calender dating system changed from AD to Common Era, CE to remove all reference to Christ in new standard history books. Changed from BC to Before Common Era, BCE. Same tactic as described by Aldous Huxley with the term BF and AF, Before Ford, and After Ford in Brave New World.

1995