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“[State controlled] education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.” – Joseph Stalin

"[I]f you serve a child a rotten hamburger in America, federal, state, and local agencies will investigate you, summon you, close you down, whatever.  But if you provide a child with a rotten education, nothing happens, except that you're liable to be given more money to do it with."

--Ronald Reagan

“Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.” - Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870-1924)

 

The only freedom deserving the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. Each is the proper guardian of his own health, whether bodily, or mental and spiritual. Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest. ---John Stuart Mill

Happy Birthday to the Constitution and to Me!         By Theresa Camoriano

September 17^th is Constitution Day and my birthday, so maybe that’s why I am such a pain in the neck when it comes to thinking that we should stick to the plain language of the Constitution and the rule of law.  Or maybe it is because I know that making up the rules (the law) as you go along might get you the outcome you want in the short term, but it causes real problems down the road.         (click to read more)

Misread and misled: Is student reading really improving in Jefferson County?         By Richard G. Innes

A story about World War I claims the British government kept three sets of statistics on the incredible number of casualties. The first set was meant to fool the enemy. The second tried to fool the public. The last tried to fool itself.         (click to read more)

The Fraud of "Academic Freedom"            By Gordon Francis Corbett

Occasionally, we hear some teacher protest a restriction of his prerogatives by saying that he has "academic freedom."   

"Academic freedom" is a fraud.  Passed in the name of scholastic integrity, it supposedly permits a teacher to teach autonomously.  Actually, it is not intended to protect conservative, libertarian, or paedagogically traditionalist instructors from bosses who oppose their ideas.  Instead, its purpose is to placate teachers' labor unions by protecting "progressive" instructors from an angry public.  Case in point:  Aurora, Colorado's, Cherry Creek School District.  Some months ago, one of its teachers, a Mr. Jay Bennish, made some terribly untrue statements about President Bush that triggered an enormous furor.           (click to read more)

Affirmative Action   --- The American Way         By Ed Basquil

          Affirmative action is the American way. I saw it happen the way it was supposed to happen, and it was a beautiful thing.

          I graduated Central High School in Philadelphia in 1983.  Central was a magnet school, and the most racially integrated school one could find anywhere, on a completely voluntary basis. We were just about half black and half non-black---white and a large percentage of Asian, I don’t know the exact percentage. Even thought Central was a public school, you had to pass a rigorous test to get in----we bragged on being the second best public high school in the country on most surveys, behind the New York School of Arts and Sciences.          (click to read more)

The “Betray Us” Venom of the Obese Ogres of Politics         By Major Mark Smith, Retired

What truly disgusts is the frivolous and demeaning way the Left, from 'Move On' (READ QUIT) to Maureen Dowd and on to leading liberal types in Congress describe a Soldier. They seem to think these people are cloned and arrive with stars on their shoulders. They all started as either a Second Lieutenant or a Private. They all were once the fresh faced boys of battle these folks all claim to care so much about. They don't just hate this General but all who willingly serve.            (click to read more)  

Department's ACT reporting change makes the grade

Bluegrass Institute education analyst Richard Innes tried for years to get the state Department of Education to release ACT college-entrance exam scores for Kentucky’s public high schools.

Finally, Innes’ efforts – which began even before the institute opened its doors four years ago – and the work of others have born fruit.          (click to read more)

My confession:    (attributed to Ben Stein)

I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish.  And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees Christmas trees. I don't feel threatened. I don't feel discriminated against. That's what they are:   Christmas trees.         (click to read more)
 

No one has a right to food, water, shelter, money, or love if he must obtain it at the expense of the owner. Medical care is no more a right than these. Man rightfully obtains goods and services by producing them from nature or by voluntary exchange with others. Man may exchange goods, services, and emotional values, but he must trade to obtain them. Otherwise he is a thief acting against human existence. — Charles W. Johnson

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