Two laws you cannot break are Newton’s Third Law of Motion and …
The Law of Unintended Consequences
Author: Tony Colle Thought: Education or Indoctrination? Part 2 Life is busy. Parents are busy. However, to turn over complete control of our children’s education to faceless bureaucrats will only lead our children into adopting the value system fostered by that bureaucracy, for better or worse. Since the sole goal of a bureaucracy is its expansion and the more people who agree with the bureaucracy, the better it can grow. Therefore the bureaucracy’s system is probably for the worse. If you can’t keep the people ignorant, teach them only what you want them to know. Capture their minds and their hearts will follow. Capture their hearts and their actions will conform. This is the goal of Social Engineering and it is rampant in our schools today. Tolerance, Inclusiveness, diversity and multiculturalism are all wonderful ideas in theory but in practice they can lead to some values that many do not want their children to have. To too many people tolerance means acceptance. I must be able to tolerate your views in order for civil discourse to occur, but I am not required to accept your views to be as beneficial as my own. The education system today encourages students to accept those who are different. This is good. There must be a way for society to include all law-abiding people. None should be turned away. However, I can accept you without adopting your views for my life. I may even have you as my friend without having to adopt your lifestyle. Inclusiveness and tolerance give us free speech but to many you may have free speech only as long as your speech agrees with my alternative choices. All people are created equal and “it takes all kinds to make a world” but that equality should always build up people. It is wrong to put down some in the guise of righting past wrongs or in an attempt to make others feel better about themselves. Many cultures have joined into this melting pot we call the United States. For people to cling only to the culture of “the old country” and avoid integrating with the culture we have developed in this country negatively separates “them” from the rest of “us”. Individuality is good but there must be shared values among the people for a country to be strong and hold together. Doing otherwise only leads to factions and fracturing of the social fabric. So why does the multicultural school system teach children that they don’t need to adopt the norms of the society in which they live? Heather may have two mommies but must Johnny be taught that that relationship is at least as good as any and all others even when study after study show that a 2-parent household with one father and one mother is the best environment for a child to grow and develop? A person’s sexual orientation may be his or her own business but do we have to teach third graders who don’t even know about puberty yet that “anything goes” or how to use a condom? It is socially responsible not to abuse the ecosphere but are a child’s parents “evil destroyers of the earth” just because they don’t recycle used bathroom tissue? Society has an imperative to teach some level of morality. Murder is bad. Stealing is bad. Performing medical experiments on uninformed people is bad. The macro framework for moral behavior is the responsibility of society. We can see this in the giving of the Ten Commandments to the Hebrew people. It was a framework for how they were to interact with their God and with each other. The family is the unit responsible for instilling morality on the micro level. Parents need to teach their children that actions have consequences, both good and bad. Teach your children not to lie and there is a good chance they won’t steal either because they won’t lie about it. The parents have to teach their children to respect their elders and those in authority. They do this through proper discipline when their children act out or are disrespectful. When parents don’t teach morality, society and peers are all too quick to step in. Sadly, too many parents are willing to let the school system teach morality. The question parents must ask themselves is “What morality are our children learning?”
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