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It seems that in the last 150 years, the Bible and prayer were included in the public school system, although some historical facts reveal that most public schools intended to be atheistic in their thinking.<\/p>\nIt seems that in the last 150 years, the Bible and prayer were included in the public school system, although some historical facts reveal that most public schools intended to be atheistic in their thinking.<\/p>\n
As we\u2019ve already seen<\/a>,<\/span> the Common school program, which is the precursor to today\u2019s state\u2019s school system, wasn\u2019t a failure of the then predominantly Christian institutions.<\/p>\n Instead, this system was exploited by utopian socialists and Unitarians, who were concentrated in the New England area, especially Boston. They wanted a school system they would control as an instrument for remaking society in their own image.<\/p>\n One of the leaders of these groups was a humanist, professing atheist, and socialist, John Dewey<\/a><\/span>, whose ideas have been influential in education and social reform. He proposed an educational system that is devoid of morality and faith in God.<\/p>\n John Dewey\u2019s goal was to use the public school system to mold our children\u2019s minds into becoming obedient citizens of the state. He was quoted as saying,<\/p>\n You can\u2019t make socialists out of individualists. Children, who know how to think for themselves, spoil the harmony of the collective society which is coming, where everyone is interdependent.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Part of his blueprint was to break the mother\u2019s bond by getting the kids to state schools at an early age, which, I might add, is being implemented today at an exponential speed.<\/p>\n John Dewey and his contemporaries knew that if the schools could keep the children from 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., if they could keep the children preoccupied with sports from after school till around 6:00 p.m., if they could keep children busy with homework all evening, then they could keep parents from having more than thirty minutes to an hour per day with their children.<\/p>\n For Dewey, within one generation schools could break the influence of the parents and their religion off the children. He said,<\/span><\/a> \u201cIt is up to the public system to recapture our threatened religious heritage.\u201d<\/p>\n For Dewey that heritage was not biblical Christianity but that which was common to society. He was critical of the past and its traditional teaching methods:<\/p>\n The traditional notion of \u2018discipline\u2019 was developed under these circumstances. The little red schoolhouses of our ancestors were a struggle of wits and often a means of strength between pupils and teachers.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n He then continues,<\/p>\n There is only one way out of the existing educational confusion and drift. That way is the definite substitution of a social purpose, controlling methods of teaching and discipline and materials for study, for the traditional individualistic aim.\u201d And again, \u201cSchools do have a role\u2014and an important one\u2014in the production of social change.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n He declared, \u201cchange was constant in society and that anyone who did not recognize this point was under \u2018a self-imposed hallucination.\u2019\u201d Therefore, educational methodology and content must constantly change to keep up with the constant and usually unpredictable flow of social attitudes. He was critical of those who \u201cas a rule opposed the studies called “modern and the methods called progressive.\u201d<\/p>\n His philosophy of education merged well with the liberal theology of the churches. The liberal clergy had no trouble supporting the governmental school system.<\/p>\n With the development of government schools, the humanists succeeded in accomplishing several things, and one of them was undermining the biblical faith of the children.<\/p>\n Under the influence of another humanist, Horace Mann<\/a>,<\/span> compulsory education in government schools became a reality. Most historians regard him as the most important and beneficial leader of education reform in America. Historians have also credited him as the father of the common school movement.<\/p>\n In 1852 Mann was instrumental in the decision to adopt the godless Prussian education system in Massachusetts. The practical result of his work brought a revolution in the approach used in the school system of Massachusetts, which in turn influenced the direction of other states. Shortly, New York State set up the same method in twelve different schools on a trial basis.<\/p>\n Another primary architect of today\u2019s godless public school system was Dr. G. Brock Chisholm (1896\u20131971). He was the first head of the World Federation of Mental Health, and later head of the World Health Organization of the United Nations. He is honored and recognized by many as a great humanitarian, but he despised God, morality, and the Christian family.<\/p>\n Chisholm had a strong view that children should be raised in an \u201cintellectually free environment\u201d as possible. That environment was the state school system where children would be independent of the prejudices and biases\u2014political, moral, and religious\u2014of their parents.<\/p>\n He said<\/a><\/span>, to achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men their\u00a0 “individualism\u2019 loyalty to family traditions, national patriotism and religious dogmas.\u201d <\/strong>Sounds familiar? Most Christian parents in the West did not discern what was going on, and they sent their children to public schools due to mandatory attendance laws. It is now painfully obvious that government schools have adopted an all-inclusive religious system that claims all religions lead to the same path.<\/p>\n There is nothing free in this society. Sooner or later there is going to be a price that had to be paid. What was that price? A rejection of teaching God as Creator, removing the Bible, prayer, and the Ten Commandments from schools, and replacing biblical morality with worldly secularism and humanism.<\/p>\n They had to mix Christian denominations with the Jews, Muslims, Hindus, and many other world religions, and their main object was to exclude from the curriculum anything that any of these groups found offensive.<\/p>\n By embracing all faiths, a new secular humanistic \u201cfaith\u201d was introduced to replace them all. How do we train our children to follow Christ while they are being trained to reject the God of the Bible from the classroom?<\/p>\n Professor A. A. Hodge <\/a><\/span>gave a message that would seem to be prophetic, and unfortunately history has proven him to be right. He saw the effect this system of government run education system would have on Christianity, and then came back and reported:<\/p>\n I am sure as I am of Christ\u2019s reign that a comprehensive and centralized system of national education, separated from religion, as is now commonly proposed, will prove the most appalling enginery for the propagation of anti-Christian and atheistic unbelief, and of anti-social nihilistic ethics, individual, social, and political, which this sin-rent world has ever seen\u2026.<\/span><\/p>\n It is capable of exact demonstration that if every party in the State has the right of excluding from the public schools whatever he does not believe to be true, then he that believes most must give way to him that believes least, and then he that believes least must give way to him that believes absolutely nothing, no matter in how small a minority the atheists or the agnostics may be.<\/span><\/p>\n It is self-evident that on this scheme, if it is consistently and persistently carried out in all parts of the country, the United States system of national popular education will be the most efficient and wide instrument for the propagation of atheism which the world has ever seen.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Indeed, the education system in the West has been expensively financed, advocating a philosophy that begins with man and ends with man, just as A.A. Hodge predicted.<\/p>\n When the Bible and the knowledge of God were abandoned, it was easy for alternatives such as the theory of evolution and Darwinism to take over the school system, as we shall examine in the next post.<\/p>\n Part of the article is adapted from Reclaiming the Forgotten Biblical Heritage~Volume 2 <\/a><\/span>Copyright 2014, Watchman Media Publications<\/p>\n Image credit: Teach 4 the Heart <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n It seems that in the last 150 years, the Bible and prayer were included in the public school system, although some historical facts reveal that most public schools intended to be atheistic in their thinking. As we\u2019ve already seen, the Common school program, which is the precursor to today\u2019s state\u2019s school system, wasn\u2019t a failure […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16193,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16191","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-education","8":"wp-image-borders","9":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/christian.education.is_.important-34567.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4bgnN-4d9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16191"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19079,"href":"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16191\/revisions\/19079"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}John Dewey (1859 \u20131952)<\/h4>\n
Horace Mann (1796\u20131859)<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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