They Said It! #8

This is another one that just blew my mind. They did a pretty good job with my two girls. Im still trying to undo some of the trash they were taught in their early years of school.

"Every child in America entering school at the age of five is mentally ill, because he comes to school with certain allegiances toward our founding fathers, toward elected officials, toward his parents, toward a belief in a supernatural being. It's up to you teachers to make all of these sick children well by creating the international children of the future."

A Harvard Professor of Education and Psychiatry at a childhood-education seminar for public schools

They Said It! #7

This is a long one, but....whoa!!!! I about fell out of my chair when I read it. Please, read it all the way through and then spend some time in prayer.


"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 proselytizers of a new faith: a religion of humanity....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 education level- preschool day care or a large state university. The classroom must and will become an arena of conflict between the old and new - the rotting corpse of Christianity, together with all its adjacent evils and misery, and the new faith of humanism, resplendent in its promise of a world in which the never realized Christian ideal of ' love thy neighbor' will finally be achieved."

From an article in The Humanist titled "A New Religion for a New Age"

They Said It! #6

I thought I would share some POV's from the humanist camp the rest of the week.


"..... We must ask how we can kill the god of Christianity. We need only to insure that our schools teach only secular knowledge. If we can achieve this, god would be shortly due for a funeral service."


G. Bozarth,
promoting the religion of humanism

They Said It! #5

I love this one. It is one of my personal favorites and why I believe that all Christians should homeschool. Yes, I said all and I do not apologize for that. I even argue with my sweet mother about this topic. :) Argue meaning... discuss passionatly. LOL

"In spite of God's urgent plea to protect and nurture the mind in accordance to His ways, millions of Christians separate the heart from the mind of their children by sending them to public schools. The reason many Christians allow this to happen is because they have a dualistic view of humans that goes back to ancient Greece and has lasted to this very day. Plato believed that man had a spiritual and material dimension and the two should not be combined. That is why Christians even to this day, have departmentalized their Christianity. For example, the concept of 'going to worship' is based on Christianity being something we do rather than what we are. Surely we would not send our children to a state church on Sunday, where the god of humanism is served. Yet we do allow our children to go to the place of humanistic worship five days a week."



Kevin J. Pierce,
Worldview Ministries

They Said It! #4

"Students in this country are being intellectually maimed by relativism in our classrooms. Because we have rejected moral absolutes, the curriculum has no central reference point to revolve around, and no foundation on which to rest. College-level courses have become a confusing blur because no one really knows what's right and what's wrong, what's good and what's bad."


Alan Bloom

They said it! #3

"A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary."
Thomas Carruthers

They Said It! #2

If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering and to prosper; but if we and our posterity neglect its instructions and authority, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us and bury our glory in profound obscurity.

Daniel Webster

They said it! #1

"Let us look forward to the time when we can take the flag of our country and nail it below the Cross, and there let it wave as it waved in the olden times, and let us gather around it an inscribed for our motto: 'Liberty and Union, one and inseperable, now and forever,' and exclaim, Christ first, our country next!"
Andrew Johnson

Quotes on Homeschooling

I have found some great quotes on homeschooling and education in general. Mostly in a book I am reading entitled What Your Child Needs To Know When: According to the Bible and According to the State. Its a great book and even though Im only a few pages into it I would highly recommend it! Anyways, I want to do a semi-daily homeschool quote on my blog. Some from this book, some from other sources. Let me know if you have any favorites. I will start this new feature tomorrow.