Education, a Hidden Objective?

Education, a Hidden Objective?

            A history forgotten always repeats itself.  It is the opinion of several smart and educated men such as John Taylor Gatto and H. L. Mencken, that the public education system is not designed “to make good citizens, people and people their best” as it claims.  Instead, they believe that the schooling system is geared toward generating convenient citizens rather than individual thinkers.  This model follows that of a Prussian society, where the education system is engineered to stow away the populace at a manageable level of intellect.  While our society may not be the extreme of Prussia, it does share similar qualities.  For instance, almost all public schools denounce the existence of God.  They aim at removing any kind of moral authority while under the guise of promoting tolerance.  They do this by eliminating any essence of deistic knowledge such as a creation theory.  Christians need to take a stand against this or history will repeat itself.  During the reign of Hitler, the German schooling took the same approach.  A society which has no moral authority is easier to manipulate.  So the question is this, is our educational system here in America political? Is it for the people’s benefit? Could it be that the lack of educational quality is due to a shortage of funding?  These are all questions which need to be posed to discover the cause.  Clearly the answer is more complex than it would seem.  I believe that a major issue is that the society in America is plagued with social discrimination in schools.  People who have little money are forced to attend schools which are not funded as well as other richer schools.  The problem with schooling is due to the social barriers of money, and also the increase of political influence in schools.