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Must Government Require Schooling?

The origins of USmerican education lie in family and church. In the intervening centuries, various levels of government have encroached into those roots. This has reached the point that many people, perhaps most, actually believe the lie that USmerican democracy was born in government-run, tax-funded schools.

None of the "Founders" attended anything like what we would call a "public" school. Washington and Jefferson were tutored at home, Franklin's short formal education was in a private school. Etc., etc.

The last state to disestablish its church, Massachusetts in 1833, was also the first to "establish" a state-run school system, not even twenty years later. It seems that governments simply cannot keep their hands off of its subjects' minds.

When, in the 1960s, Lyndon Johnson decided that poor people were too stupid to feed themselves an their children, he did not establish government feeding centers. He merely gave them stolen money to buy food (with some limitations). But when the state decided that parents were too stupid to educate their children, it did not give the poor money (stolen, as is all "government money") to assure the stated outcome. It demanded the parent surrender their children to state-controlled institutions.

Horace Mann, widely, and falsely, worshiped as the "father of American public education" promised that if USmerica would simply kowtow to his unproven scheme of government-run, tax-funded (grtf, aka welfare) schools, crime would disappear, inequality of income would dissolve, and all would be raised to a level of enlightenment.

His schools were rammed down the throats of families across this land, so much so that by the late XIX, states were denied admission to the Union unless their constitutions included "free", "public" "schools" as a "right" for every child. This whether the people wanted them or no. And they usually did not.

His worshipers do not acknowledge (or ignore) his hatred of "Christian" religion (particularly his father's), his devotion to the science on which he proposed founding his schools: phrenology. They do not recognize his connections to the Peabodys, the the Carnegies, and the other industrialists of the early and mid XIX, all of whom wanted a complacent and compliant workforce to staff their factories. It was William Torrey Harris who, as USmerican Commissioner of Education, assured his wealthy cronies, that the USmerican educational system was "scientifically designed" to deny a child's ability to imagine himself rising above his assigned station. Assigned, we must wonder, by whom.

Mann modeled his schools on the Prussian (Teutonic German for those who attended grtf-welfare schools and don't know) system. These were the result of Kaiser Friedrich's loss to Napoleon at Jenna. Friedrich attributed his loss to his soldiers' insubordination. He assembled his counselors and demanded that they create a system that would insure that no soldier of his would think of disobedience, much less think for himself. The schools they created led, ultimately, to the NAZI Germany of the 1930s and 40s.

The question posed above implies that government need not round up all (or even most) children and herd them into schools it controls. It also implies that "school" and "education" are not synonymous, which is true--they are not.

What are the alternatives to grtf-welfare schools? What would be the likely result if all parents reclaimed their natural right and responsibility to educate (not 'school") their children? Is there enough charity in USmerica to support private education for all children if their parents cannot afford it?

No child deserves the 12-year sentence.
Save yours from the government's youth concentration camps.

Lehi

Schooling Require Government Must

In a perfect world, if parents would reclaim their right and responsiblity to educate their own children, we would have a more perfect world! Unfortunately, most parents these days were indoctrinated in "public" schools, wouldn't understand the first thing about what a true education really is, nor would they know how to impart that knowledge to their kids. In fact, in my experience, most parents these days have a lot of trouble just abiding the presence of their own kids. You couldn't *pay* them to home school their kids!

Government requires "public" schools to ensure a generally reliable, well-trained (not well-educated) workforce to perpetuate the wage-slave mentality that the corporate-run world requires to maintain the status quo. Educated free thinkers don't fit into this scenario.

Rather off topic, but... Unfortunately, I'm one of those wage-slaves myself. If I could find a way to break out of it, I'd take my daughter out of "public" school immediately! It's just a matter of time....