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"There is a way that seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death."--Proverbs 14:12
In Detroit, only seven percent of public school eighth graders read at grade level. And that represents the best scholastic results that come from Detroit's hellhole system of public education.
From Cnsnews.com: "Detroit public-school eighth graders do even worse in
math than they do in reading, according to the Department of Education. While
only 7 percent scored highly enough on the department’s National Assessment
of Educational Progress test in 2011 to be rated “proficient” or better in
reading, only 4 percent scored highly enough to be rated “proficient” or better in
math."
And so, it goes without saying that Detroit's public schools have become the model for everything that's wrong these days with America's public school educational system. Certainly, it's not as bad in other places or America would soon become a third-world sewer. Unfortunately, if the status in American public school education remains the quo, then the United States may indeed be on the road to Zimbabwe or Bolivia.
America's educational system wasn't always this bad. In the early 1960s, the United States ranked first among the world's industrialized nations in scholastic achievement scores. (ACT, SAT) But that was then and this is now.
What happened? What happened was that American educators rejected America's Judeo-Christian roots and instead, imported the failed theories of godless humanists such as Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, John Dewey, Anton Carlson and Margaret Sanger into public school education. You may remember Sanger; she was the founder of Planned Parenthood that has quadrupled Hitler's Holocaust with over 40 million abortions in the U.S. since abortion was legalized in 1973 by the United States Supreme Court.
Taking their orthodoxy from Karl Marx, the father of Communism, humanists decided that American education had to be reinvented because it corrupted the minds of students by glorifying capitalism. In their eyes, capitalism was the cause of every social pathology such as crime, poverty, violence etc. Humanists believed that capitalism was corrupt because it rewarded success to a select few while punishing the vast majority with failure. Those that failed were doomed to be plucked like chickens by those who succeeded.
Humanists decided to level the academic playing field by inverting the process; they would reward failure and punish success. That way, everyone would feel good about themselves because everyone would succeed. However, if everyone succeeded regardless of their achievements--or lack of--then what was the point of study and hard work if those who refused to study were rewarded with the same results as those who did?
American public school education has become another prime example of the failure of Marxism. Instead of creating a new class of intellectuals by promoting the Marxist Utopian pipe dream of equality outcome education, secularists have produced a generation of uneducated zombies like Detroit's public school students by discouraging idealism and demonizing achievement. There is little incentive for success when those who are lazy and unmotivated are rewarded despite their failures.
What's the answer? The answer is always found with God's word in the Bible. Everyone has different talents and gifts, a reality that the apostle Paul alluded to in his first epistle to the Corinthian Church. Paul spoke of nine different gifts (1 Corinthians 12) that God imparts to His people through His Holy Spirit to help promote the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the world.
Every human being has a gift or a talent. If America's blind educators would realize that and concentrate on helping each student find and develop his or her gift instead of brainwashing them with useless, Marxist ideology that masquerades as "education", then America would indeed get back on the road to success and get off the dead end road that leads to ruin and destruction.
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