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“Justice Porter Stewart warned about what was really happening in his descent.’ refusal to permit religious exercise exercises, thus is seen, not as the realization of state neutrality, but rather as the establishment of a religion of secularism…“

“… teacher training would be the linchpin of the strategy.“

“Dewey‘s vision for education was not academic excellence, but social conditioning.“

“By rejecting the Creator, Dewey and his fellow humanist rejected, not just the Bible, but the entire philosophical foundation of American liberty.“

“Like his predecessors, Dewey dismiss the authority of scripture, denied the existence of God, and rejected the individual liberty, and God given rights articulated in America’s founding documents.”

“By the time, John Dewey died in 1952, the foundation laid by Robert Owen and Horace Mann had been transformed into a global system of government control controlled education-an engine designed not for literacy or liberty, but for social engineering.”

“Mann and his associates claim to offer enlightenment. What they delivered was a system that has alienated children from their families, confuse them about their purpose, and robbed them of the moral and spiritual foundations essential to liberty.“

“One of Mann’s disastrous innovations was his promotion of the whole word or looks a method of reading instruction- a break from centuries of phonics based learning, rooted in linguistic science and common sense.“

“Like Owen’s before him, though, Mann rejected the biblical view that man is inherently sinful in need of moral training, discipleship, repentance, ultimately, divine redemption through Christ. Instead, they both believe children were essentially blank slate who could be molded into proper collectivist citizens by enlightened educators and an expansive state.“

“Man also wanted to introduce secularism through the back door. While reporting to remove. ‘ sectarianism.’ what he actually removed was the Bible, orthodoxy, and any recognition of man’s fallen nature. And doing so, he attacked the very theological foundation upon which American liberty was built.“

“There were no bloated, federal or state bureaucracies, no billion dollar budgets, and no credentialed ‘experts’ with degrees in ‘ pedagogy’ or ‘ educational psychology.“

“The federalist papers, meanwhile, we’re written for everyday Americans in the late 18th century. Today, they are nearly incomprehensible to young Americans, even in modern English.“

“The order of the phrase-religion, morality, and then knowledge-was not accidental. The founders understood that liberty could not survive without a virtuous and informed sincere, and that virtue cannot exist apart from religion.-especially Christianity.“

“Education, for them, was not first about job training, college preparation, or social advancement. It was about glorifying God, developing character, and equipping the next generation to live in freedom under God‘s law.“

“Institutionalized people look to institutions to solve problems.”-

“. . . A nation’s health depends on the ability of citizens to read well.”

“Public schooling did not evolve organically to meet individual or public needs. It was built deliberately by those who sought to reshape human nature and erase Christianity from the public Square.”

“Education is not neutral. It is either grounded in-or it becomes a tool of control.”