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Whom the gods wish to con, they first make illiterate by Curtis Dahlgren, December 15, 2018There are some sentences that should never be completed:
"America has been good to us, but . . . " "Thanks for the history lesson, but . . . " "Public education could be improved, but . . . "
IT'S A CULTURE WAR. I attended a one-room country school and I learned how to read in less than six weeks - in kindergarten. I overheard more American history in first grade than most teachers hear in 4 years of college. In fact, a poll recently revealed that most seniors in our 'top-notch' universities couldn't identify George Washington as the general of the Revolutionary army. Teachers now say little George didn't cut down that cherry tree, but if he had they'd hate him for that too!
The educational "Establishment" Mrs. Thatcher referred to no longer hides its true agenda. Did you ever wonder why "history" disappeared from the curricula and became lumped under the umbrella of "social science"?
A few years ago at its national conference, the National Council for the Social Studies had as its slogan, "TRANSFORMING CULTURES, Past Present and Future." Which, being translated, means "Rewriting the past so as to transform the present culture into a more politically correct future (my source for this information was from an actual badge worn at their national "conference"). As George Orwell said, "Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past [i.e., history]."
We have gone from one extreme to another. In the 1830s, the Philadelphia Public Library refused to keep any works of Thomas Jefferson because he was unable to "comprehend" the trinity, and therefore "pursued by relentless clerical hatred" ("Jefferson" by Padover, abridged, p. 120). Even though Jefferson was a believing man, and said so, we have gone from ditch into the other. From his Freedom OF Religion to Freedom FROM Religion. In the bill for establishing religious freedom for Virginia, he said "[We] do enact that . . . all men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinions in matters of religion, and that the same in no wise diminish, enlarge, or affect their civil capacities." Saying that today could get you jail time in Canada.
P.S. The foregoing was my third column (September 21, 2003), edited very slightly. In re-posting it, I just want to add some quotations that I've recently discovered:
"Write the vision and make it plain upon a tablet, that he may run who reads it." - Ecclesiastes (500 BC)
"It is not wide reading but useful reading that produces excellence." - Arestippus (400 BC)
"It is quality rather than quantity that matters." - Seneca
"Reading is the best medicine for the sick man, the best music for a sadde man, the best counsel for a desperate man, the best comfort for one afflicted." - John Florio (1578)
"Reading is to the Mind what Exercise is to the Body." - Joseph Addison (1709)
"Reading makes a full man - meditation a profound man." - Ben Franklin (1738)
"Some read to think, - these are rare; some read to write, - these are common, and some to talk, - and these form the great majority." - C.C. Colton (1820)
"Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought." - Helps (1849)
"Run as we may, we still must read." Phyllis McGinley (1940)
"He who runs may read and he who sits should forbear to carp." - HE.A. Hooten ("Why Men Behave Like Apes," 1941)
PPS: That was the year of Pearl Harbor, and more of the holocaust (when the Jews were essentially just "medical waste"). The people who just watched things happen had no reason to decry "What Happened." Our pro-Israel President really needs our fervent prayers. BY THE WAY: IN Israel's arch-enemy Iran, part of its capital city and surrounding areas are sinking 10 inches per year. "The cracks and fissures threaten an area that hosts more than 100 miles of railway, 2,000 miles of roads, 21 bridges, 30 miles of oil pipeline, nearly 200 miles of gas pipeline, 60 miles of high-voltage electricity lines [etc] . . . " - WorldNetDaily
Bet you didn't hear that news on "cable news," did you? A Special Invitation to You
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