Perhaps this best defines what happened and why it continues to happen with each succeeding generation. Do you truly believe you have been educated? Perhaps indoctrinated would be a better word. Mary wrote a quote "never stop learning" true freedom is learning not schooling.
Phyllis Schlafly is author of the book Child Abuse in the
Classroom. She writes:
"A remarkable real-life drama took place in seven American
cities during March 1984. Hundreds of parents traveled to one of
seven locations to testify at U.S. Department of Education
Hearings on proposed regulations for the Protection of Pupil
Rights Amendment.
More than 1,300 pages of testimony were recorded by court
reporters as parents, public school teachers, and interested
citizens spelled out their eye-witness accounts of the
psychological abuse of children in the public schools. They
related how classroom courses have confused schoolchildren about
life, about standards of behavior, about moral choices, about
religious loyalties, and about relationships with parents and
with peers.
These Hearings explain why we have 23 million adult
illiterates who graduated from public schools, and why
young people are experiencing high rates of teenage suicide,
loneliness, premarital sex, and pregnancies.
These Hearings explain how schools have alienated
children from their parents, from traditional morality such as
the Ten Commandments, and from our American heritage. These
Hearings explain why children are emotionally and morally
confused and why, in the apt colloquialism, they need need
to "search for their identity."
These Hearings explain what children have been doing in
their classrooms instead of learning to read, write, spell, add,
subtract, and the essentials of history, geography, and civics.
These Hearings explain how children learn in school to be
"sexually active," take illegal drugs, repudiate their
parents, and rationalize immoral and anti-social conduct when it
"feels" good in a particular "situation."
These Hearings speak with the thunderous voice of hundreds of
parents who are angry at how their children have been
emotionally, morally, and intellectually abused by psychological
and behavioral experiments during classroom hours when the
parents thought their chidren were being taught basic knowledge
and skills. Parents are indignant at the way that educator
"change agents," spending federal tax dollars, have
used children as guinea pigs for fads and experiments that have
been substituted for real learning."
Schlafly draws attention to Senator S.I. Hayakawa's warning in
1978 that U.S. public schools had rejected the notion of
education as the acquisition of knowledge and skills. Instead
they practiced education as "therapy." Schools had
replaced "cognitive education (which addresses the
child's intellect, and teaches knowledge and skills) with affective
education (which addresses the child's feelings and attitudes,
and spends classroom time on psychological games and probing
personal questionnaires)." Schlafy continues:
""Therapy" techniques used in the classroom
include violent and disturbing books and films; materials dealing
with parental conflict, death, drugs, mental illness, despair,
and anger; literature that is mostly negative and depressing;
requiring the child to engage in the role-playing of death,
pregnancy, abortion, divorce, hate, anger and suicide; personal
attitude surveys and games (such as Magic Circle) which invade
the private thoughts of the child and his family; psychological
games which force the child to decide who should be killed (such
as the Survival Game); explicit and pornographic instruction in
sex acts (legal and illegal, moral and immoral); and a deliberate
attempt to make the child reject the values of his parents and
his religion...
The originators of "therapy" education began
peddling their notions in the 1930s at about the same time that
the teaching of reading started its steep decline. This
psychological experimentation only existed in spots here and
there around the country until 1965 when federal funding through
the Elementary and Secondary Education Act began to finance
curriculum and teacher training for the entire country...
The reader might also wonder, why was there no media
coverage of these seven days of Hearings involving intensely
controversial issues, dramatic presentations by hundreds of
concerned parents, and documented accounts of child abuse in the
classroom?
The full article can be found
here.