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“Give me just one generation of youth, and I'll transform the whole world.”
Vladimir Lenin, b. 1870, d. 1924
“Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.”
Joseph Stalin, b. 1878, d. 1953
“He alone who owns the youth, gains the future.”
Adolf Hitler, b. 1889, d. 1945
“Our top priority was, is and always will be education, education, education.”
Anthony Charles Lynton Blair, b. 1953
What Have We Done?
Our children are our future.
Our future is in their hands.
If we wish our future to be a world of beauty, joy, and technological, medical, and scientific progress, then it is vital our children are nurtured in a healthy, safe, and caring environment.
An environment that will develop their creativity, imagination, and self-esteem.
An environment that will treat every child as an individual, not as part of another cohort to be educated to the same syllabus.
Each child provided with the best possible chance to add meaning to their lives, to leverage their best talents, and to cultivate the required skills for their adult-life.
So they may not have to use their adult-years to recover, heal, and escape, from past childhood trauma, neglect, and abuse.
Yet, we continue to educate, or rather, indoctrinate our children, in a manner one could describe as torture, or child abuse.
Especially, since March 2020, students have been held-back years, with continuous disruption to their learning schedule, so teachers, and the wider public, can feel “safe” from a virus with a 99.9%+ survival rate.
We should all fear the future consequences of such action.
Children from poorer families will not have the resources to catch-up, as children from wealthier families are able to do from home.
This will result in a widening gap between the future-rich and the future-poor.
Not to mention the opportunity for child-abusers to commit more terrible abuse on their vulnerable victims during lockdowns.
The abuse of our children (past and present) is unrestrained, it has continued for too long, and it must end.
For if not, our children will never forgive us, and a deep-fracture will be formed, between the young, and the old.
Today, we have the greatest opportunity to take our children away from the state, and educate, nurture, and protect them ourselves.
Government Day-care Centres
As human-beings, our brains do not fully-develop until our mid-20s, on average, and the last maturation stage is the one that crystallises our emotional state.
Add to the mix a (supposedly) 99% genetic match with chimpanzees, and this all leads to the collective noun for a chimp: a classroom (sorry, bad joke!).
Then think: how many of those chimps belong to parents with less morals, ideals, or discipline as yourself?
An enclosed space, filled with thirty-plus emotionally-immature chimps, is exactly the best place for your child. Is it not?
Think about the teacher.
The teacher is essentially a government-worker, and like most (not all!) government-workers, they barely do more than moan, groan, and strike.
For those decent teachers out there, wouldn’t your talent be best used in a healthier environment than a government school?
Then think about the bullying.
During our most fragile, and difficult, stages of life, we are left defenceless against the most vile and abusive children in our school.
The effects of which last long into our adult-life.
So, you finally decide to remove your child from their government day-care centre… now what?
Well, your glorious government will likely start issuing fines or even sentence you to prison.
Even if, you as the parent of your beloved child, decide school is no place for any child, your government will punish you as a criminal.
The victim? Your child.
Why? Because as former U.S. President Barack Obama once said, “In America, we believe that every child, regardless of class, color, creed, or ability, deserves access to a world-class education.”
Now, think about this: does your child belong to you, or does your child belong to the state?
Also, the definition of a “world-class education”, of course, being entirely dependent upon the state.
A state that derives it’s power from a compliant, close-minded, and obedient population.
Education is Not a Right
If you prefer small government, then you likely see government as the protector of natural rights, namely: the right to life, free speech, and private property.
In other words, rights do not require someone else to be coerced into action.
For education to be a right, someone must be forced into providing educational services, if there is no voluntary choice to teach.
Political parties confuse the issue, by suggesting education is a right and every child deserves an education, thereby placing education under the realm of big government.
In fact, a voter’s (supposed) right, is always a demand for the state to steal from (or oppress) someone else, to fund their voter’s lifestyle.
There is no problem believing every child ought to have an education, or that you wish every child could have an education.
After all, the more knowledge and skills one has, the more likely one is to succeed in life.
However, to believe every child deserves an education is not true, and contradictory.
By forcing misbehaving, abusive, and vile children, to mix with those that want to learn, that love to learn, violates their supposed right to an education - depriving these children, one could argue, that really deserve an education.
The politically-incorrect reality is that some children are never going to succeed academically, will never enjoy school (who can blame them?), or are a disruption to other children’s education.
This doesn’t mean some children are destined to never succeed in life either.
Just look at some of the richest men (adjusted for inflation) to have lived:
John D. Rockefeller (b. 1839, d. 1937) $674 billion
Andrew Carnegie (b. 1835, d. 1919) $400 billion
Henry Ford (b. 1863, d. 1947) $230 billion
The common denominator?
They never finished school.
The Failure of Public Schools
“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
Mark Twain, b. 1835, d. 1910
“I remember that I was never able to get along at school. I was at the foot of the class.”
Thomas Edison, b. 1847, d. 1931
“I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it's just depressing to me. The poor little kids.”
Dolly Parton, b. 1946
Do government schools even provide an education?
Are schools, in fact, just a lunatic asylum, with the lunatics in charge, repeatedly demanding children study the same subject, again and again, only to be told they are wrong, stupid, or just an idiot?
Some children really are destined to never have a self-esteem.
This could be the reason government involves itself in education - why would a confident, and free-thinking individual ever need big government?
Is the state, then, violating it’s own mantra: “Every child deserves an education”?
According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, education is: the knowledge, skill, and understanding that you get from attending a school, college, or university.
One would think at a primary, or elementary level of education, children should be focusing on: reading, writing, and arithmetic.
Maybe even some computing, history, geography, music, art, and a foreign language?
Already quite a lot for a child to learn.
So why, in the UK, are primary education (ages 5-11) pupils being taught Relationships Education?
With the “[focus] on teaching the fundamental building blocks and characteristics of positive relationships.”
Why is this any concern for the state?
Then there is Sex Education in primary, or elementary level education.
Can’t we leave children, especially at a very young age, to be, you know, just children?
So why is the World Health Organisation promoting this?:
Interestingly, some of their documents now lead to blank pages.
Then there is the indoctrination of our children to believe in climate change.
Irrespective of your own views, children do not need to be told the Earth will die by the end of the decade.
This indoctrination is leading to a new phenomenon: climate anxiety.
Children having nightmares, and panic attacks, as a result of the indoctrination they experience at school.
Between learning about “playing doctors”, and how the Earth is going to spontaneously combust by 2030, when are children actually being educated?
When are children ever happy?
Education Needs Disrupting
Has much really changed in our schools in the past 100 years?
We know from the work of American psychologist, Howard E. Gardner (b. 1943), human-beings have different types of intelligences, and hence, learn more efficiently with different styles of teaching.
We now have mobile devices, and the Internet, that can potentially connect ourselves with billions of people.
Sites like Udemy, Coursera, and edX, are challenging the old University model of higher education, by providing high-quality online courses.
There are even YouTube channels like Khan Academy and CrashCourse, that offer free educational videos.
For foreign languages, there are free sites like Duolingo, or sites like italki offering 1-on-1 lessons with teachers all over the world.
For online tuition, there are sites like Tutorful (UK) offering 1-on-1 or group teaching.
Then there is you, your family, your friends, and your neighbours.
Are you really that incompetent that you can’t collaborate with each other to create a learning environment for your children?
An environment better than the local government school?
John Pounds (b. 1766, d. 1839), a shoe-maker from Portsmouth, was largely responsible for the “ragged school” movement in 19th century Britain.
His local workshop was used as a school, offering free lessons in reading, writing, and arithmetic, to the poorest of children.
If it could be done 200 years ago, why not now?
Why are children not being provided with an education tailored to their individual needs?
What To Do?
This article is not promoting an election manifesto for educational reform.
This article is intended to open your mind to what is possible.
Start with the child, as an individual, and think how best to use the resources available to you, to fully-develop your child’s mind.
Reflect on your own child’s talents, hobbies, and interests.
Think of how best to capture your child’s imagination.
More importantly, think of where they are most safe - psychologically as well as physically.
Of course, don’t wrap them in cotton wool, and never let them outside either!
Children require challenges, obstacles, and puzzles, to test the mind and the body, but do they deserve government-schooling?
Is there enough reward to compensate for the inherent risk in a government school, or even a private school?
Especially now, with many parents fearing schools are going to pressure their children into taking a COVID vaccine, are schools more dangerous than ever?
You, as an adult, know what you needed as a child and didn’t receive, you know what you did receive and your child is not receiving, and you know what puts a smile on your child’s face.
The greatest gift a parent can give their child, is a better start in life than they had.
At the very least, every loving, caring, and pleasant child, if they deserve anything at all, deserves to be as far away from the state, as possible.
“Together we have come to realize that the right to learn is curtailed by the obligation to attend school.”
Ivan Dominic Illich, b. 1926, d. 2002
Bonus Feature
I hope you have found this article insightful and helpful!
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Kind regards,
Le Libérateur
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