A Gracefull Place

Anyone who really knows me knows that I don’t homeschool the usual way.  I’m not even sure what the usual way is anymore! 

 

I have learned to focus on the most important thing, which, as I’ve shared before, is all about relationships.  The academics are a nice side benefit, in my way of thinking!   I don’t mean we just la-di-da through life, but I don’t agonize over algebra, chemistry, or participial pronouns!  (Please don’t ask me what that last one is!)

 

I understand the need for academic excellence–to a point.   But when homeschool moms that talk to me don’t know how we have time to sing 4 hymns a day (huh?!) or wonder how we have time to sew and can, or spend so much time worrying about the right math program or science or foreign language program, I fear we’ve lost sight of the most important reason we should be homeschooling.

 

The hearts of our children.

 

Do you think I’m a broken record?  Do you say, "Yes, yes, that’s important, but what DO you do for math?"

 

Here are some frightening quotes that might help you understand the battle is NOT about how well educated your children are.

 

“If it were possible to control the learning of all individuals, in the way both of ideas and of emotional attitudes, as they come on to the stage of life, it would be possible to modify the whole complex of our social life, or our civilization, within the comparatively short space of one or two generations.” — CHARLES A. ELLWOOD

“The school is the germ plasm of the higher civilization. Teachers are, therefore, in charge of social selection at the source of origins for each new generation; they can even introduce at will mutatiions of their own invention.” — ROSS L. FINNEY

“Oh, you blind leaders who seek to convert the world by laboured disputations! Step out of the way or the world must fling you aside. Give us the young. Give us the young and we will create a new mind and a new earth in a single generation.” — BENJAMIN KIDD

Who are these people?  Those carrying on in the spirit of Auguste Comte.  Never heard of him?  Me, either.  But he is basically the "father of sociology".  Even though you won’t hear of him even in sociology courses!   His views have shaped the educational system.   In fact:

 

"Comte devoted his entire life to blueprinting a philosophical SYSTEM which could be used to sanction total control over all the people of the world for all time—eliminating and/or destroying all contrary philosophies and religions, particularly Christianity."

Does this make you realize the high stakes in this battle?  The stakes are our children’s hearts–which way will they be influenced?   Towards their peers, the system, the agenda of those who know in one to two generations they can gain control over people–willingly?

 

This makes me question how I educate my children.  I canNOT follow an agenda that was created to reshape the thinking of the young and alienating them against God and their family!

 

That doesn’t mean I don’t make sure my children know how to read and write and think….do basic math….but why I am so worried about "keeping up" with something designed to destroy the very things I hold sacred–God and family?

 

I know some states require more documentation, testing, etc. than my state does.  But I would find every way I could to be creative and get around "bowing to the gods of education" that these kinds of people have set up.  I am not saying everyone in the public school system is out to get us– there are many good-hearted and well-meaning people in there.  But the system is flawed.

 

So, if it’s broke, please don’t duplicate it at home.  

 

 

 

The stakes are too high.

 

 

If you want to read the article where I found this information, it was written by Erica Carle, Why I Wrote "The Hate Factory".

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