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Education’s Dunkirk
By Samuel Ashwood | January 5, 2009
In 1940, some 300,000 British and French troops were rescued from German panzers by the Royal Navy and a host of small, civilian-owned boats. The rescue of these invaluable troops deterred Hitler from invading the British isles, and also formed the nucleus for the army that would later win the war.
There is now a call arising for a new Dunkirk. This call is emanating from retired U.S. Army Chaplain Lt. Col. E. Ray Moore, founder of the Exodus Mandate Project. This is not for a military operation, however, but for an evacuation of children from government public schools. It is Moore’s hope that children raised at home by Christian parents will form the nucleus of a host that will regenerate American culture.
The public schools are not the friends of Christianity, or Christian principles. Moore says, “The real target of the liberals and the left has always been the children.” Unhappily, they have been more than a little successful. Moore grimly concluded, “They’re converting our children; we’re not converting them.” And what children, even those coming from Christian homes, are being converted to, is a system that teaches them the Bible is full of myths, the colonists and early Americans were violent religious fanatics, promiscuity is normal and acceptable, and that they are descended from monkeys through some process called Evolution, rather than being made in the image of God. Add to this the epidemic of drugs and violence in public schools, and one wonders why any Christian parent would want their children in government schools. Wouldn’t our youth be far better off at home, away from social peer pressure, being taught by loving parents from a Bible-centered, Christ-centered curriculum?
Homeschooling generally provides better education than public schooling. But even for parents who don’t feel up to the task, they should ask themselves what is more important for their child–receiving a quality liberal education, or receiving their earliest impressions from a loving Christian environment? Better in my book to be an uneducated, poverty-stricken Christian than a wealthy, brilliant pagan. But the dedicated homeschoolers have every right to expect educational success. I can offer myself as personal proof. I’ve never set foot in a public school classroom, but I have obtained a Masters’ degree in History in spite of that “disadvantage.”
Lt. Col. Moore is correct. It is time for an educational Dunkirk. It is time for Christians to rescue their children from the diabolical system that wants their children for its own, and to raise them for Christ.
Topics: Social & Religious Commentary |
September 10th, 2009 at 4:45 pm
I agree with the Dunkirk factor completely and having been in several public schools know that the environment in itself is not friendly or healthy. But many of the people in school come from difficult backgrounds with working parents and unstable situations. For many, homeschooling is simply not an option and for others school might even be a safer place then home. Also the degree of self-motivation in homeschool is difficult to achieve if you haven’t been introduced to it from an earlier age. Overall, though I do hope the number of students being educated at home rises, I’m not sure to what limit it can go.