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The Role of 'Educators'

Brad431 Wrote: Jan 08, 2013 3:55 PM

I love the above reply. Steve of CA's post proves Restoreliberty's point! His first 4 words make no sense, yet he prefers public schools. Why? Not because of its superior education, its graduates are better equiped for the future or the U.S. is better off, but he didn't want to be separated from his friends. The sense of privilege he avoided we used to call patriotism and national pride. While Steve counts on public education to dull his patriotic optimism, I find all I need is graduates like Steve to deaden mine.

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The Role of 'Educators'

Many years ago, as a young man, I read a very interesting book about the rise of the Communists to power in China. In the last chapter, the author tried to explain why and how this had happened.

Among the factors he cited were the country's educators. That struck me as odd, and not very plausible, at the time. But the passing years have made that seem less and less odd, and more and more plausible. Today, I see our own educators playing a similar role in creating a mindset that undermines American society.

Schools were once thought of as places where a...

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