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Old June 13th, 2013 #6
Alex Linder
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[...] I stopped to inspect a group of clean, good-looking buildings called the Maternity Hospital of the Virgin of Solitude, and as I stood at the gate a man came out whose wife had just been admitted and we spoke of the good work the hospital did.

'Who runs them?' I asked.

'The Church. Who else?'

'Are there any public hospitals?'

'I don't know what you mean. The Church gives us our hospitals and schools. Don't they give you hopsitals and schools in your country?'

'We provide such things with taxation.'

He pondered this for some moments, then asked, 'You mean the government taxes you for what the Church gives us? You have to pay for them out of your own pocket?'

I tried to explain that in many countries, England and Germany for instance, taxes provided schools, but he interrupted, grabbing me by the arm. "Tell me, would sensible men trust politicians to run a hospital? The Church you can trust.' He was unable to imagine a society which operated on a system of taxation, and his final question was, 'You mean to say you allow politicians to teach your children? The Church you can trust, but not those others.'
[from Iberia, by James Michener, 1968, p. 62]

[significance: in the US citizens are brainwashed that religion is an entirely private matter, like nose-picking. This hides the fact that 1) 'public schools' always promulgate an orthodoxy that might as well be a religion, since it sets up self-worship of itself as an institution (government is always right, always the answer, always needed by everybody to solve every human problem, just like the - yeah). But average people cannot perceive governmemt-as-church because the government promotes its coercion-funded indoctrination-camp philosophy not as philosophy-even-dubiouser-than-religion but as good solid (socialist) secular science. In fact, what 'public schools' always offer is state worship and attendant indoctrination masquerading as education. Remember that all education is self-education. Others can guide and help you, but you must do it to yourself. The only technical tool you need is the ability to read. Recall that learning the three Rs, reading, 'riting and 'rithmatic, is estimated by homeschoolers to require merely 100 hours. The sixteen years of 'public-school' 'education' are indoctrination - they teach/adjust attitudes, with genuine learning, genuine intellectual education a deep-distant second. This is not speculation on my part, or malicious smearing or imputing bad motives, this is directly stated by the progressives, from John Dewey on down. They disparage reading! That is the mindset of the man more than any other responsible for teaching the teachers. Reading and genuine thought and independence and critical thinking - these are bad things. We want conformity. We want uniformity. We want not organic, free-thinking humans, but processed corporate/state cogs, fit for our military and giant industrial concerns. I agree with the religious man that you can't trust politicians to run schools or hospitals. I disagree with him that you can trust the church to run schools, at least. But the church's record is better than the state's I'll acknowledge.]

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