Tradition is under attack in America\u2019s educational system.\nDissolving the connections with our history will break society. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Edmund Burke argues in Reflections\non the Revolution in France<\/em> that \u201cMen\u2026 [are] becom[ing] little better than\nthe flies of a summer,\u201d each generation vanishing and giving nothing but the\nsimple fact of their life on to the next. <\/p>\n\n\n\n There are unfortunate, but not surprising, similarities between the French Revolution and the current battleground of education in the United States. Much like the French civilization in the 18th<\/sup> century, we have become deluded with a belief that the only way to change is to abolish what we have come to know. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Burke\u2019s commentary is equally fitting for our time as his,\nwhen he wonders \u201chow any man can have brought himself to that pitch of\npresumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche<\/em>, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n Students are being encouraged to oppose the government rather than to engage in the established political process. The preference for protests and civil disobedience, driven by bitterness and resentment, reflects their ignorance about how our democratic republic operates. The leaders of the \u201cprogressive left\u201d hide behind a facade of love for the poor, the stranger, and their neighbor, while endeavoring to replace our Constitution with utopian ideas that have failed horribly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Some of the governments that operate under these failed ideas\nstill survive as a testimony to their ability to cause poverty and\ndespair. In the \u201cDemocratic Republic\u201d of\nNorth Korea the people suffer as slaves of the totalitarian government, while\nin Venezuela, people are eating their pets. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Yet our way of life has prospered because of our established political process and has survived because it is grounded on the combined wisdom of those who came before us. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Burke wrote to the French leaders who favored revolution, \u201cYou had all these advantages in your ancient states, but you chose to act as if you had never been molded into civil society, and had everything to begin anew. You began ill because you began by despising everything that belonged to you\u2026Respecting your forefathers, you would have been taught to respect yourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n America\u2019s liberty is under attack from within. Our failure to teach our history and the importance of the institutions that brought about America\u2019s prosperity (the centrality of family, hard work, the rule of law, economic freedom, limit and representative government, etc.) is a disservice to our children that will ultimately lead to our demise as a culture. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tradition is under attack in America\u2019s educational system. Dissolving the connections with our history will break society. Edmund Burke argues in Reflections on the Revolution in France that \u201cMen\u2026 [are] becom[ing] little better than the flies of a summer,\u201d each generation vanishing and giving nothing but the simple fact of their life on to the next. There are unfortunate, but not surprising, similarities between the French Revolution and the current battleground of education in the United States. Much like the French civilization in the 18th century, we have become deluded with a belief that the only way to change is to abolish what we have come to know. 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