Some more History---
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 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…. Their purpose, in brief, is to make docile and patriotic citizens, to pile up majorities, and to make John Doe and Richard Doe as nearly alike, in their everyday reactions and ways of thinking, as possible. – H. L. Mencken (1889-1945) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._L._Mencken
"The establishment of the Board of Education seems to be the commencement of a system of centralization and monopoly of power in a few hands, contrary, in every respect, to the true spirit of democratic institutions; and which, unless speedily checked, may lead to unlooked for and dangerous results." Massachusetts Legislature 1852
“Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be up rooted.” – Vladimir Ilyich Lennin
“Education is dangerous - every educated person is a future enemy.” -
Hermann Goering
"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". – Adolf Hitler
“We want one class to have a liberal education. We want another class, a very much larger class of necessity, to forgo the privilege of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.” – Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) to a group of businessmen shortly before WW1
The liberal education Mr. Wilson is speaking of is one proper to a freeman. The name comes from the Latin liber, meaning “free”
“The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._K._Chesterton
“A tax-supported, compulsory education system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.” – Isabel Paterson (1886-1961) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabel_Paterson
"Your tax dollars are being used to pay for grade school classes that teach our children that cannibalism, wife-swapping and the murder of infants and the elderly are acceptable behavior." – Jesse Helms As Thomas Jefferson so eloquently wrote in the Declaration of Independence:

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness." God Bless and help America--marysduby

If we don't remember history, then we have no future.

People forget too easy.

How many people have forgotten 911? There is a mosque being built there right now. A trophy of accomplishment...

MOT the international team, brought down by American politics. Way to go guys.

Rej