"The notion that the church, the press, and the universities should serve the state is essentially a Communist notion. In a free society these institutions must be wholly free -- which isto say that their function is to serve as checks upon the state."
-- Alan Barth (1906-1979) served on the editorial board of The Washington Post for thirty years
Source: The Loyalty of Free Men, 1951 http://quotes.libertytree.ca/quote_blog/Alan.Barth.Quote.30F1
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Friday, October 9, 2009
Suitable Education--or Indoctrination
If you haven't heard of the Badman Report, go to http://www.hslda.org/search.asp?cx=003292018161232433569%3At9te_l-65iw&cof=FORID%3A9&ie=UTF-8&q=badman+report&sa.x=26&sa.y=9#912 .
Suitable Education—or Indoctrination?
Volume 92, Program 3010/9/2009
Transcript of "Home School Heartbeat" radio program of HSLDA
Adopting the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child—the CRC—would require the state to provide a suitable education for your child. Host Mike Farris examines the alarming truth about what comprises the UN definition of “suitable,” on today’s Home School Heartbeat.
Mike Farris:
In his recent report on home education law in England, Graham Badman urges creating a new definition of what is “suitable” for a child’s education. He cites Article 29 of the UNCRC as setting the standard for guiding such new requirements.
It is therefore crucial to understand Article 29. Subsections (b) through (e) attempt to control the substantive content of education and require the promulgation of certain worldviews that are controversial—not just among homeschoolers, but among many segments of the population.
Advocates of this treaty make a clear and bold declaration that this article “directs state parties to instill particular values in children through education.”
It is not necessary to debate the legitimacy of the values enshrined in their list of viewpoints to be instilled in every child in every type of school. The real issue is, does England—and does America—intend to mandate the inculcation of certain “approved” values to children?
England’s current law is clearly on the side of freedom and contrary to any regime of government-compelled indoctrination in any particular system of values. Nothing in English law allows government officials to dictate the worldview, opinions, or viewpoints which must be taught in home education—except the CRC.
I’m Mike Farris.
Suitable Education—or Indoctrination?
Volume 92, Program 3010/9/2009
Transcript of "Home School Heartbeat" radio program of HSLDA
Adopting the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child—the CRC—would require the state to provide a suitable education for your child. Host Mike Farris examines the alarming truth about what comprises the UN definition of “suitable,” on today’s Home School Heartbeat.
Mike Farris:
In his recent report on home education law in England, Graham Badman urges creating a new definition of what is “suitable” for a child’s education. He cites Article 29 of the UNCRC as setting the standard for guiding such new requirements.
It is therefore crucial to understand Article 29. Subsections (b) through (e) attempt to control the substantive content of education and require the promulgation of certain worldviews that are controversial—not just among homeschoolers, but among many segments of the population.
Advocates of this treaty make a clear and bold declaration that this article “directs state parties to instill particular values in children through education.”
It is not necessary to debate the legitimacy of the values enshrined in their list of viewpoints to be instilled in every child in every type of school. The real issue is, does England—and does America—intend to mandate the inculcation of certain “approved” values to children?
England’s current law is clearly on the side of freedom and contrary to any regime of government-compelled indoctrination in any particular system of values. Nothing in English law allows government officials to dictate the worldview, opinions, or viewpoints which must be taught in home education—except the CRC.
I’m Mike Farris.
Thursday, October 8, 2009
Communist Quote
"We must create out of the younger generation a generation of Communists. We must turn children, who can be shaped like wax, into real, good Communists . . . we must remove the children from the crude influence of their families. We must take them over and, to speak frankly, nationalize them. From the first days of their lives they will be under the healthy influence of Communist children's nurseries and schools. There they will grow up to be real Communists."
-Communist Party Education Workers Congress (1918)
-Communist Party Education Workers Congress (1918)
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