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(Atheists) Understand the Value of Education
American Humanist Association*
... the American Humanist Association understands the importance of capturing the children for they have written: "In order to capture this nation, one has to totally remove moral and spiritual values and absolutes from the thinking of the child. The child has to think that there is no standard of right and wrong, that truth is relative, and that diversity is the only absolute to be gained." (We are Losing Our Children by T.C. Pinckney quoting from The Reconstruction of Religion by Charles A. Ellwood, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology, University of Missouri,1923)
John Dewey (signed the Humanist Manifesto.)
"I believe that...[public] education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform ... this conception has due regard for...socialistic ideals." and "There is no God and there is no soul. ...There is no room for fixed...or moral absolutes." (My Pedagogic Creed Article 5. "The School and Social Progress")
Paul Blanshard (socialist, humanist, and Christian apostate)
"I think that the most important factor moving us toward a secular society has been the educational factor. Our schools may not teach Johnny to read properly, but the fact that Johnny is in school until he is 16 tends to lead toward the elimination of religious superstition. The average American child now acquires a high school education, and this militates against Adam and Eve and all the other myths of alleged history." (The Humanist State, March/April 1976, p. 17)
John J. Dunphy
(atheist activist)
"I am convinced that the battle for humankind’s future must be waged and won in the public school classroom by teachers who correctly perceive their role as the proselytizers of a new faith: a religion of humanity that recognizes and respects the spark of what theologians call divinity in every human being. These teachers must embody the same selfless dedication as the most rabid fundamentalist preachers, for they will be ministers of another sort, utilizing a classroom instead of a pulpit to convey humanist values in whatever subject they teach, regardless of the educational level—preschool, daycare, or large state university. The classroom must and will become an arena of conflict between the old and the new—the rotting corpse of Christianity, together with all its adjacent evils and misery, and the new faith of humanism, resplendent with its promise of a world in which the never-realized Christian ideal of 'love thy neighbor' will finally be achieved." (“A Religion for a New Age.” The Humanist. January-February, 1983)
Dunphy also said, “I steadfastly maintain that only with the complete, irrevocable rejection of God and the supernatural will humankind truly begin to live…Only the atheist is truly free” and “ If the previous paragraphs [of 'A Religion For A New Age'] prove anything, it is that the Bible is not merely another book, an outmoded and archaic book, or even an extremely influential book; it has been and remains an incredibly dangerous book.” (http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quotes_by/john+j.+dunphy)
H. L. Mencken
(“As a nationally syndicated columnist and book author, he famously spoke out against...religious belief (and as a fervent nonbeliever the very notion of a Deity.” Wekipedia)
“The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality. That is its aim in the United States, whatever the pretensions of politicians, pedagogues, and other such mountebanks, and that is its aim everywhere else." (The American Mercury, April 1924)
H. L. Mencken, famous for his scathing attacks on creationists during the Scopes Trial, also said:
“What is the function that a clergyman performs in the world? Answer: he gets his living by assuring idiots that he can save them from an imaginary hell.” (Minority Report: H.L. Mencken's Notebook)
"The act of worship, as carried on by Christians, seems to me to be debasing rather than ennobling. It involves groveling before a being who, if he really exists, deserves to be denounced instead of respected." (Quoted in On the Meaning of Life, Will Durant.)
John Stuart Mill (an atheist who attended a Unitarian Church)
"A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another: and as the mould in which it casts them is that which pleases the predominant power in the government, whether this be a monarch, a priesthood, an aristocracy, or the majority of the existing generation, in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading by natural tendency to one over the body." (On Liberty)
John Stuart Mill also said, “A large proportion of the noblest and most valuable teaching has been the work, not only of men who did not know, but of men who knew and rejected the Christian faith.” (On Liberty http://philosopedia.org/index.php/John_Stuart_Mill)
Chester Pierce (Harvard University Professor, Humanist, New World Order Guru--See ”The Common Thread Addendum”)
"Every child in America entering schools at the age of 5 is insane because he comes to schools with certain allegiances toward our Founding Fathers, toward his parents, toward a belief in a supernatural being, toward the sovereignty of this nation as a separate entity. It's up to you, teachers, to make all of these sick children well by creating the international child of the future." (1972 keynote address to the Association for Childhood Education International)
Charles F. Potter
(founded the First Humanist Society of New York)
"Education is thus a most powerful ally of humanism, and every American school is a school of humanism. What can a theistic Sunday school's meeting for an hour once a week and teaching only a fraction of the children do to stem the tide of the five-day program of humanistic teaching?" (Humanism: A New Religion. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1930, p. 128)
"Humanism is not the abolition of religion, but the beginning of real religion. By freeing religion of supernaturalism, it will release tremendous reserves of hitherto thwarted power. Man has waited too long for God to do what man ought to do himself and is fully capable of doing….a religion of common sense; and the chief end of man is to improve himself, both as an individual and as a race." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Francis_Potter)
Charles Potter signed the Humanist Manifesto and was a Unitarian minister that erected a statue in his church showing a human being coming out of the skin of an ape. (Evolution Encyclopedia, Vol. III, Chapt. 30, “The Scopes Trial”)
The religion of Unitarians has guided government schools since their founding. Dr. Potter (in 1925) advised Clarence Darrow on the Bible during the Scopes Trial.. Also see The Evolution Resolution.
Richard Rorty (a disciple of John Dewey and a professor of philosophy at Princeton University for 21 years.)
"I, like most Americans who teach humanities or social science in colleges and universities, invoke when we try to arrange things so that students who enter as bigoted, homophobic, religious fundamentalists will leave college with views more like our own. ...The fundamentalist parents of our fundamentalist students think that the entire ‘American liberal establishment’ is engaged in a conspiracy. The parents have a point …When we American college teachers encounter religious fundamentalists, we do not consider the possibility of reformulating our own practices of justification so as to give more weight to the authority of the Christian scriptures. Instead, we do our best to convince these students of the benefits of secularization. ...So we are going to go right on trying to discredit you in the eyes of your children, trying to strip your fundamentalist religious community of dignity, trying to make your views seem silly rather than discussable." ("Universality and Truth," in Robert B. Brandom (ed.), Rorty and is Critics, Oxford: Blackwell, 2000, pp. 21-2)
Bertrand Russell (perhaps best known for his essay “Why I am not a Christian.”)
“It may be hoped that in time anybody will be able to persuade anybody of anything if he can catch the patient young and is provided by the State with money and equipment.”
“Where all children go to school, and all schools are controlled by the government, the authorities can close the minds of the young to everything contrary to official orthodoxy.”
“Fichte laid it down that education should aim at destroying free will, so that, after pupils have left school, they shall be incapable, throughout the rest of their lives, of thinking or acting otherwise than as their schoolmasters would have wished."
“The nations which at present increase [their populations] rapidly should be encouraged to adopt the methods by which, in the West, the increase of population has been checked. Educational propaganda, with government help, could achieve this result in a generation.”
"The social psychologists of the future will have a number of classes of school children on whom they will try different methods of producing an unshakable conviction that snow is black. Various results will soon be arrived at. First, that the influence of home is obstructive. Second, that not much can be done unless indoctrination begins before the age of ten. Third, that verses set to music and repeatedly intoned are very effective. Fourth, that the opinion that snow is white must be held to show a morbid taste for eccentricity... It is for future scientists to make these maxims precise and discover exactly how much it costs per head to make children believe that snow is black, and how much less it would cost to make them believe it is dark grey. Although this science will be diligently studied, it will be rigidly confined to the governing class. The populace will not be allowed to know how its convictions were generated. When the technique has been perfected, every government that has been in charge of education for a generation will be able to control its subjects securely without the need of armies or policemen.” (The Impact of Science on Society, 1952. Quotes are not chronological.)
Harold Rugg (president of the American Educational Research Association and author of 14 Social Studies textbooks)
" A new public mind is to be created. How? Only by creating tens of millions of new individual minds and welding them into a new social mind...Old stereotypes must be broken up and new climates of opinion formed in the neighborhoods of America. But that is the task of the building of a science of society for the schools..... Basic problems confront us: ... the development of a new philosophy of life... appropriate to the new social order.... Through the schools of the world we shall disseminate a new conception of government.” The Great Technology (quoted at http://www.crossroad.to/Excerpts/chronologies/nea.htm)
Benjamin Bloom (educational psychologist and humanist)
"(T)he purpose of education is to change the thoughts, feelings and actions of students." ( All Our Children Learning, page 180.)
J. Elmer Morgan (editor of NEA Journal)
"In the struggle to establish an adequate world government, the teacher... can do much to prepare the hearts and minds of children.... At the very top of all the agencies which will assure the coming of world government must stand the school, the teacher, and the organized profession." "The Teacher and World Government”, NEA Journal (January 1946); 1.
Julian Huxley (evolutionary biologist , internationalist, and a chief founder of the American Humanist Association )
Referring to UNESCO*: “(I)n its educational programme it can stress the ultimate need for world political unity and familiarise all peoples with the implications of the transfer of full sovereignty from separate nations to a world organization." UNESCO: Its Purpose and Its Philosophy, (Washington, DC: Public Affairs Press, 1947) p.13.
*UNESCO is the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. See ”The Common Thread Addendum”.
Harold Shane (education futurist)
“As young people mature, we must help them develop... a service ethic which is geared toward the real world... the global servant concept in which we will educate our young for planetary service and eventually for some form of world citizenship.” "America's Next 25 Years: Some Implications for Education," Phi Delta Kappan (September 1976).
Todd Gitlin (president of SDS in 1965) “My generation of the New Left – a generation that grew as the [Vietnam] war went on – relinquished any title to patriotism without much sense of loss... We lost – we squandered the politics – but won the textbooks. We … won the textbooks.”
Karl Marx (the father of Communism and co-author of the Communist Manifesto.)
“The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother’s care, shall be in state institutions at state expense.”
(http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/7084.Karl_Marx)
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (first Leader of the Soviet Union)
“Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.” (http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,957700,00.html)
Joseph Stalin (General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union)
"Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed." (Interview with H. G. Wells. September, 1937)
Stalin also said, “You know, they are fooling us, there is no God.” (Landmarks in the Life of Stalin, 1940)
Adolf Hitler
"Let me control the textbooks and I will control the state." (Quoted in William L. Shirer, Education in the Third Reich," ch. 8, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich).
(http://www.nheld.com/schools_to_careers_editorial.htm)
“When an opponent declares, ‘I will not come over to your side,’ I calmly say, ‘Your child belongs to us already.... What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing else but this new community.’” November 6, 1939 (http://www.apologeticspress.org/apcontent.aspx?category=7&article=1849)
“The Youth of today is ever the people of tomorrow. For this reason we have set before ourselves the task of inoculating our youth with the spirit of this community of the people at a very early age, at an age when human beings are still unperverted and therefore unspoiled. This Reich stands, and it is building itself up for the future, upon its youth. And this new Reich will give its youth to no one, but will itself take youth and give to youth its own education and its own upbringing.” Quoted in Duane Lester, “The Threats to Homeschooling: From Hitler to the NEA,” August 11, 2008. ( http://www.allamericanblogger.com/3415/the-threatsto-homeschooling-from-hitler-to-the-nea/)
THE BOTTOM LINE
(After touring the Creation Museum a secularist blogged: “For me, the most frightening part was the children’s section. It was at this moment that I learned the deepest lesson of my visit to the Museum: It is in the minds and hearts of our children that the battle will be fought.”
(http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/au/children-are-the-key)
Evolutionism is the main weapon used to attack our children. Unfortunately, Answers in Genesis**, and most major evangelical ministries still think we can make children into miniature apologists and send them into the war zones of government schools to fight people like that blogger. That is simply sending the children on suicide missions.
A related article is “Evolution Is Religion--Not Science.”
*Humanism
"Humanism holds that the universe exists for no purpose…Obviously, if no moral absolutes exist, you can't demonstrate that anything is wrong or evil…Humanism is fostered by the teaching of evolutionary science, materialism and moral relativism in our popular media and public school system…We are nothing more than bugs struggling with survival until we die." (http://www.allaboutphilosophy.org/Humanism.htm)
HUMANISM = ATHEISM
**Answers in Genesis started to see the light in 2012. See the note at the bottom of “ANSWERS” DOES NOT HAVE THE ANSWER.
See: Why Christian Education Is Important.
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