Education for the last
several decades in the States has been focused much more on vocational training
than on any higher goals: learning the
classical liberal arts (trivium and quadrivium), advancing in the Christian
faith, etc. This leaves students at a
terrible disadvantage: They are not
learning how to discern truth from falsehood, only how to apply utilitarian
tools. Because of this, they tend to be overly
accepting of the pronouncements of ‘experts’ in various fields while dismissing
any voices outside The Establishment. We
have seen what a disaster this has created, as large majorities have been
content to yield to the experts that the Iraq and Afghanistan wars were going
fine for 20 years, that face-masking would stop the spread of covid, that there
are no downsides to the childhood vaccine schedule, etc.
Thanks to this educational
programming, people have accepted outright lies for years now. A good example of the scale of the dishonesty
of The Powers That Be was uncovered recently by DOGE:
‘President Donald Trump
highlighted this morning the finding that the Department of Defense (DOD) paid
the leftist media outlet Reuters $9 million for a program labeled “large scale
social deception,” and he has demanded that they return the money.
‘“DOGE: Looks like Radical
Left Reuters was paid $9,000,000 by the Department of Defense to study ‘large
scale social deception.’ GIVE BACK THE MONEY, NOW!” wrote Trump on Truth Social.
‘ . . . A more detailed overview
of the contract on highergov.com shows the description “SIMULATION TESTING AND
MEASUREMENT LARGE SCALE DECEPTION” but does not further expand upon the
activities the award intends to fund’ ( Emily Mangiaracina, ‘Trump admin
reveals Pentagon gave $9 million to Reuters for program called ‘large scale
social deception’’, lifesitenews.com).
This isn’t entirely new, as
Miss Emily notes:
‘Some commentators
highlighted the fact that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has used
American news media for propaganda purposes, most notably in a project known as
“Operation Mockingbird.” At the time, the CIA admittedly hired at least 400 journalists to serve its
aims, in part by writing “fake stories,” according to the journalist who
exposed the scandal in 1977’ (Ibid.).
One of the leading
technocratic globalists of the 20th century, Bertrand Russell, much
earlier than Operation Mockingbird, was writing about how globalists like
himself could brainwash children to believe that snow was black using the
educational system:
‘The social psychologists of
the future will have a number of classes of school children on whom they will try
different methods of producing an unshakable conviction that snow is black.
Various results will soon be arrived at. First, that the influence of home is
obstructive. Second, that not much can be done unless indoctrination begins
before the age of ten. Third, that verses set to music and repeatedly intoned
are very effective. Fourth, that the opinion that snow is white must be held to
show a morbid taste for eccentricity. But I anticipate. It is for future
scientists to make these maxims precise and discover exactly how much it costs
per head to make children believe that snow is black, and how much less it would
cost to make them believe it is dark grey.
‘Although this science will
be diligently studied, it will be rigidly confined to the governing class. The
populace will not be allowed to know how its convictions were generated. When
the technique has been perfected, every government that has been in charge of
education for a generation will be able to control its subjects securely
without the need of armies or policemen’ (The Impact of Science on Society,
Blackie and Son, Bombay, India, 1942, pgs. 65-6).
We have been living through
exactly this kind of devious schoolhouse propaganda in the States, as the
federal government has imposed its own false ideologies upon students for many
years now: Darwinian evolution, the
ability of males to become females, etc.
President Trump’s stated goal
of eliminating the federal Department of Education is therefore welcome news
and a great opportunity for States, counties/parishes, and cities to undo the
damage that has been visited upon them by federal ‘guidance’. The opportunity lies mainly in returning the
religious dimension to public schools.
By doing so, they will give children the ability to discern truth from
lies, good from evil. For the most basic
elements of learning begin with those latter distinctions, that Truth and Light
are of God, and lies and darkness are of the devil: ‘In Him [Jesus Christ] was life, and the life
was the Light of men’ (The Holy Gospel according to St John 1:4, NASB); ‘Then
Jesus again spoke to them, saying, “I am the Light of the world; he who follows
Me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the Light of life’ (John 8:12);
‘You are of your father the devil . . . .
He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth
because there is no truth in him.
Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is liar
and the father of lies’ (John 8:44).
That is the foundation of all
learning. Furthermore, the degree of
virtue one has attained allows one to advance in learning. Wise and holy men throughout the ages have
given testimony to these truths.
. . .
The rest is at https://thehayride.com/2025/02/garlington-educating-for-wisdom/.
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Holy
Ælfred the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð, unworthy though we are!
Anathema
to the Union!
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