School Oppression
April 30, 2024
ALAN writes:
I was not an angry young man when I walked into high school in 1964, but I was a very angry young man indeed when I walked out in 1966. By no means was I “a superior student.” But what I made of it –meaning the compulsion to be in school and to attend certain classes — was:
1. I disliked it.
2. Then I resented it.
3. Then I hated it.
4. Then I loathed it.
5. Then I refused to abide by such compulsion any longer.
The tragedy is that so few parents and teachers object to it; that so many agree to accommodate it, this providing the training they require to become a population of compliant, gullible, obedient boobs. Professor Richard Mitchell, in The Underground Grammarian, May 1989, rightly said, “….the entire system that we call ‘education’ is designed to produce exactly what we have, a nation of unprincipled cowards….”
Dr. Medford Evans, “Thought Control and America’s Intellectual Decline”, American Opinion, January 1972, pp. 37ff, also provided long-forgotten wisdom:
(P)ublic schools are inherently an instrumentality of totalitarian government…
….it is not unreasonable to suppose that control of the schools is the most basic of all requirements for a successful totalitarian government.
Given control of the schools, and having in force a compulsory attendance law, even a dim-witted elite can regiment the lives of a nation, for every family has given hostages to the regime…. [As advocated by zealots like Wollstonecraft and Mann. See “Hostage to Education”, The Thinking Housewife, Jan. 17, 2012]
….(No generation gap) is worse than that created between parents and children who have been taught by professionals that their mothers and fathers are behind the times.
…What will a superior student make of a system in which in the name of freedom he is compelled to attend … ?
If professors Mitchell and Evans were here today to witness Americans’ intellectual decline in all the years since they wrote those words, I imagine that they might conclude they had been guilty of understatement.
— Comments —
Terry Morris writes:
Relevant to Alan’s missive, here is the concluding paragraph of an article on the subject of true education vs. false education I wrote for Identity Dixie last year:
“There you have ‘the rest of the story,’ gentle reader. The conclusion is that the long-term success of our movement – the permanent establishment of a free and independent South – rests upon the condition that the people of our beloved Southland must become free and independent internally before they can hope to be free and independent externally. In other words, our people must break free from the mind-numbing bondage imposed upon us by the Yankee and his pagan philosophy of “education,” and return to a Bible-based philosophy of same. To borrow from Dr. Dabney (and Mr. Jefferson) yet once more in closing, if we must have a form of ‘universal education’ in the meantime, “we beg leave to do our own thinking,” and to organize and administer it as we see fit – in such a way that to us, “shall seem most likely to effect our safety and happiness.” Good day!”
P.S. Athough Alan is twenty years my senior, or thereabouts, we nevertheless shared a disdain for compulsory public schooling during our respective attendances of said institutions. I’ve said many times over the years since I graduated H.S. that the only thing that kept me going to school after my Sophomore year was that I loved playing football and other sports, and with my talented teammates, competing for state championships. Although I highly respected my father and his opinions, who would have been devastated had I quit high school and not gotten my diploma, I don’t think, short of my participation in football and other sports aforementioned, his influence would have been sufficient to keep me in school. Indeed, I missed most of the third semester of my senior year, and made my grades up enough to pass at the end of the semester. I’ve also complained in recent years of the fact that children today seem to love “school,” which, to my mind, is something more of a problem than even Alan identifies in his post.
