The Root of the Cure for Education

For the life of me, I cannot understand why people in charge of reforming the ailing educational institutions are forever these individuals that think, beyond any reason or proof, that the cure for the system is to throw more money, hand-over-fist, at the sick areas. The Dallas Morning News exhaustively prints many soothsayers of wrong and unfruitful educational remedies, with very little fruit. I was compelled to write the following response:

Virtually none of the problems of education today can or will be solved by throwing more money at them. To think this is the solution is like thinking that taking aspirin will cure a headache. It might temporarily ease the pain, however it does not get at the root of the problem and cure what is causing it. To understand the cause of the problem, we must look back to the turn of the 20th century when compulsory public education got its start. We need to recognize that people like John Dewey and Horace Mann got caught up in the Secular Humanist movement. These men, and other reformers of their day, began a social experiment to gain control of our society through the minds of our children. These men were in perfect agreement with the ideals of the Communist Manifesto written by Karl Marx. Dewey, and several of his cohorts, signed a like pact, at the time, deemed the Humanist Manifesto. Some of the most influential men of that time, such as Freud and Darwin, kept the social experiment afloat to form what is taught in our universities today. In fact, Unitarianism, stemmed from the socialist movement, has taken over the major universities. These universities teach our teachers and are a source of the poison in education. It is time that we stop being ignorant about the real root of our education problem and begin its cure. At the last turn of the century, we lost control of the fabulous educational system that was operative until the mid 19th century. Ironically, the worsening point for our current educational system began around the mid 20th century (specifically 1962-63). As we turn to the next century, we must re-examine, rethink, reform and regain those methods that were used before the system was corrupted.