Self-Education = Freedom

Already I have been bombarded with the patronizing of many.  They say, "Oh am happy for you.  You do what's best for your family...I just hope you put your children in social activities."  Well, these may all be well intentioned, but it seems the indoctrination of compulsory public education has really taken hold when people feel that social activities provided by public education outweigh the degradation and government controled curriculum provided as well. 

Outside of sports, the many experiences with reality that children are exposed to in public education are rather like those experienced by inmates; bullying, sexual harassment, scheduled yard time, limited access to information, state controled diet, state controled curriculum, etc.  People feel these social activities prepare students for the real world, well if our country continues to turn into a corporate fascist/communist socialist society, then by all means public education is preparing them quite well.

I on the other hand wish to see students learn independence.  They must learn how to learn so they can self-educate, this is a major component of education that is really non-existent, with the exception of some experiential learning curriculums.  Knowing how to teach one's self leads to freedom.  With the internet and libraries a person could learn anything he/she wants, that is if  he/she knows how to self-educate with external resources. 

Homeschool is not about laziness, social inaptitude, or extremism.  It is about freedom to explore and learn without rigid boundaries determined by the government as to what should be taught or learned.  Here is an enlightening and entertaining video, please watch and enjoy.

 

Source: youtube.com via Dominic on Pinterest

Paradox: Homeschooling

Woe to you that call evil good, and good evil: that put darkness for light, and light for darkness: that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter.
Isaiah 5:20, DRB
If a woman says, "I wish to teach and raise my own children."  She is met with arguments such as,

"It is wrong to shelter your children from the world...they are going to be met with hardship and disappoint. How will they know how to cope with that, especially if they are not submerged in the world?"

My response, though as a father, is , "The world is like an ocean, and a child a swimmer.  If I were to teach my child to swim by always throwing her into the ocean, what then should I expect?  She will most certainly drown.  Rather if  I were to teach her to swim in a pool, then move her into a lake, then into a sea, then the ocean, what do you think her chances of surviving  may be? She will survive.  To claim that raising a child in the midst of corruption, malevolence, half-truth, sexual immorality, dishonesty, and any other immorality would benefit a child, is like claiming if I put my child in a federal prison they will come out a saint.   Now raising them exposed to moral judgement, benevolence, truth, sexual purity, honesty and other virtues, this will no doubt increase her chances at sanctity.

A Journey: From Socialism to Freedom

It has been said that a woman has been removed from her most powerful role in society. She has been duped.  She is now raised by the state through the public school system which embeds the ideology that raising a family is archaic, anti-feminist, and all together oppressive.  She has been successfully thwarted by the state to no longer have any power at all...she no longer builds society through the family. Rather she engages in less influential pursuits...like a career.  She fixes the singular problems of a thousand people rather than confronting and molding the thousand complexities of raising a single child.

We are indoctrinated to think that raising our children implies giving up control to the state through the school systems and to do anything other than this means we are sheltering and creating socially inept citizens...it is quite the contrary.  Young men no longer feel there is any responsibility on their part because the fruits of their loins can be raised by the state agencies or altogether eliminated through eugenicist groups.  These young men leave the women to feel trapped and unable to care for these children...some women heroically do their best to raise them on their own but they must work outside the home thus giving up control to the state.  Each time the state steps in...though it may have the best interests of the family in mind at first...has now inadvertently made it easier for the father and mother to give up responsiblity and furthermore it has taken the power away from the family. 

We ask ourselves why the world and our country are falling apart...it is because the building blocks have been weakened from being solid bricks (the family) to pebbles (the individual).  We are not a nation of God-fearing families we are a nation of aimless orphans raised by Godless socialists.

Please listen to this commentary by a man who saw the fall of society well before most people were even aware, G.K. Chesterton's "Uneducating the Educated": http://ewtn.edgeboss.net/download/ewtn/audiolibrary/gk05.mp3