It started out innocently enough. Children needed an education after all. It is all in the service of the public good, but a good education also serves the individual. In the beginning, children said their prayers and their pledge of allegiance, and they learned to read and write and understand. We even taught them hygiene and manners. Many went home better off. Once public education became an indelible part of the American fabric we began the real work of divorcing children from their parents and their common sense.
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I can tell you so much more about the modern educated person. How he has sacrificed logic and practicality at the hands of “imagination” and “creativity” and dreams of utopias: utopias we have attempted in the past, that he believes will no longer have be accomplished through the destruction of whole populations, because he is more “enlightened”. How he no longer knows how to criticize and scrutinize groups or the government to any great degree, because he is bound by the political correctness they foisted upon him from the time he was young. He’s forgotten how to weigh the question of freedom against his understanding of history and religious philosophy. Because his history has no context beyond it’s relationship to 1968, and he knows religion is verboten in the public sphere unless we’re speaking of how it’s repressive.