http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north461.html
Textbooks as Ideological Weapons by Gary North
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For four decades, 1961–2001, R. J. Rushdoony was the best-known Protestant defender of Christian education and the de-funding of all tax-supported public education. There were other defenders of Christian education in the twentieth century, but none equally committed to the complete de-funding of public education. The others were defenders of Christian education as supplementary to public education. His position was hard-core: Take away the public schools' money.
His position was grounded on a concept of responsibility: Parents, not taxpayers, are responsible for their children's education. He accepted church-supported schools, but he thought they were generally a mistake. Parents do not pay for 100% of their children's education, so parents must share responsibility with church members. This leads to division in the churches over how the money should be spent. His ideal was either profit-seeking schools along the lines of Fairfax Christian School in Virginia, or home schooling.
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Even the good Brothers who taught me didn't understand that they were being fooled into indoctrinating me and their other charges.
I particularly like North's two prong test for indoctrination (1) the Federalist debate; and (2) the war of Northern Aggression aka the Civil war but what really should be called the end of the American Revolution. While the new nation state survived, it was set inexorable and inescapable down the path of empire.
It is a tremendous burden that Libertarians have to overcome. We have to reverse literally nearly a century of brainwashing. It makes the Communists look like amateurs.
So how do we take back "our revolution"?
We have to roll back the Socialist's victories. Their key wins: the "publk skoolz"; the fiat currency; the progressive income tax; and the militarization of the American empire.
Focusing on the schools, they are: immoral, ineffective, and inefficient.
By definition, they are funded with stolen money (i.e., taxes). So using the principle of the "end can not justify the means", they are the result of an immoral theft.
They also teach from a common agenda. That can possibly match what the parents believe in, so that's an immoral brainwashing of children.
We have evidence today of their ineffectiveness. We're last in the world in so many categories that it's a joke. We hear the stories about dropouts and rigged tests. We know from personal interaction with children that bright inquisitive children go in and brain dead functional illiterates come out the other side.
The famous Objectivist Branden compared education to shoes, arguing that private enterprise is more efficient at providing goods and services than the government. So we know that they are inefficient.
So how do we strike back. I'd advocate a three pronged approach: (1) Make fun of the whole idea. Big Gubamint doesn't like to be perceived as a fool. It's hard to oppress the people if they are are laughing at you. The recent roll back of the Spanish American War cell phone tax was imho primarily due to the late night monologues making it obvious to even the graduates of gubamint skoolz that they were being screwed. Make the whole subject of gubamint skoolz a laughing matter. (2) Parents want the best for their children. Educate them about what their children will turn into after 8, 12, 16, or 20 years of what passes for education in Amerika. (3) Have an agreed paln about how we get out of this mess. It took us 70 years to get to where we are. We can't fix it overnight. Let's have a forty year plan to get out of this mess. I blogged about 20 to switch to a free market school system and the second twenty to end the taxpayer funding. People need time to adapt. (4) Don't let up keep hammering the message: ridiculously funny, immoral by theft, immoral in what they teach, ineffective, and inefficient. And wrong, un-American, and anti-Liberty.
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