Rev. Jody Hice's own words about education

EDUCATON – REV. JODY HICE’S APPARENT POSITION IN HIS OWN WORDS:
The following is taken verbatim from Rev. Jody Hice’s book “It’s Now or Never,” Chapter 8 beginning in the middle of the next to last paragraph on page 140 through 143.
To me, the public school system has miserably failed, and there are at least three glaring reasons for its failure: 1) it is a monopoly that is forced upon tax-payers; 2.) it is based on centralized decision – making from Washington D.C. (the Department of Education should be eradicated!) and 3) schools have become centers of indoctrination and social engineering through the abusive arm of political correctness.
R.C. Hoiles was publisher of the Santa Ana Register, now known as the Orange County Register. In 1957 he wrote a classic work about alarming trends within public schools at that time. With almost prophetic accuracy, his words have proven frightfully precise today. He listed twenty – one ways that public schools harm children. The following abbreviated version of his concerns comprises what he says public schools dare not teach: 
NOTE: Hice is not merely quoting these words he is endorsing them as his own. 
1. They dare not teach the spirit of the Constitution as set forth in the first official document of the United States, the Declaration of Independence. They dare not teach it because it says that all men, not just the majority, are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
2. They dare not teach that to secure these rights governments are instituted among men, deriving their just power from the consent of the governed. They have to completely repudiate the ideas of the American way of life. They have to teach the old-world philosophy of the divine right of governments…
3. They dare not teach in government schools the meaning of liberty. If the government schools successfully taught the meaning of liberty our Founding Fathers had in mind, there would be no government schools that starve the intellects of our children.
4. The government schools dare not teach the meaning of the Golden Rule. If they were successful in getting their pupils to understand that they should not force other people to pay for something they did not want, then they could see that it was a violation of the Golden Rule to force others to pay for their schooling.
5. They dare not teach the First Commandment: “Thou shalt have no other Gods before me” because they are bowing down and worshipping the will of the majority rather than the eternal laws of God that no man made and no man can unmake.
6. They dare not teach, “Thou shalt not covet,” because they are violating the Coveting Commandment. They (teachers) get their pay by violence (forced taxation) rather than by rendering service well enough so that those who pay them believe they are benefited by their employment.
7. They dare not teach discipline and self reliance because they are not disciplining themselves enough to render such service that they can be paid voluntarily.
8. They dare not teach thrift and the harm that comes from getting into debt. They dare not do this because the government burdens every child and every person in the United States with a monstrous debt.
9. They dare not teach respect for individual initiative because government schools are based on lack of respect for other people’s initiative. They are based on the theory that “we’ve got the power and the individual is helpless and we’re going to make him pay for anything our agent’s think is education.
10. They dare not teach humility and meekness because the means used by government schools are the exact opposite of humility and meekness. Are believers in tax-run schools so sure they are right that they are willing to initiate force to make people support their ideas of education?
11. They dare not teach children to reason. They have to teach them not to recognize a contradiction or a dilemma. If the pupils were taught to reason, they would recognize the tyranny that is bound to follow…..
12. They dare not teach the harm that follows socialism, communism, collectivism and fascism for not to do so would let pupils realize that aggressive force is part of socialism, communism, collectivism and fascism.
13. They dare not teach that what man wants must be obtained on a voluntary basis. They dare not teach this because they get what they want on an involuntary basis.
14. They dare not teach the difference between socialism and private ownership of property. They dare not explain that under socialism the only way a man can benefit is by injuring another….
15. They dare not explain that in free enterprise, including free enterprise I education, the gain of one is the gain of all.
16. Tax-run schools dare not teach love and charity because they are using aggressive force.
17. They cannot teach patience because they are so impatient about getting what they seems to believe is an education that they dare not wait to persuade those who should employ them to pay their salaries.
18. They cannot teach peace and goodwill because they are an example of the opposite of peace and goodwill.
19. They cannot teach that the government is a servant of individuals because they believe it should be supported by giving it a monopoly to use aggressive force to make people pay. They can only teach that it is a master of the individual.
20. They cannot teach justice because their method of supporting the schools is based on injustice-arbitrary, initiated force.
21. They cannot teach that each man is responsible for his own life because they deny that by using force to take part of mans energy against his will, and man cannot be responsible for his life unless he has the right to choose.

NOTE: The above may be read in their entirety at: R.C. Hoiles, “Tewnty-one ways ‘public schools’ harm your children, “ 1957, http://honestedu. Org/edlib/v3n2/21ways.php 

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