Why the Left Hates America’s Founders: Education |
“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.”—Thomas Jefferson
That Democrats and other Leftists hate America’s Founding Fathers and the country’s Judeo-Christian heritage is a fact I’m not going to waste time in the article attempting to prove. Everything the Left does is designed to uproot and destroy the principles our Founders tried to build the nation upon. One of those principes, a very vital one, is a correctly educated populace. We have been complaining for many years now, and rightly so, what the Left has done to America’s education system since getting control of it about a century ago. Our Founders warned us about it, but, of course, Americans in general have paid no attention to them on this as on most matters they taught us.
Let me provide a few quotes on education, mostly from our Founders. Some of them, in general, the Left would say they approve of (but not in practice). Saying and doing, of course, are two different things. The quotes below are all from Thomas Jefferson, unless otherwise noted.
1. “A well informed citizen is the best defense against tyranny.”
Obviously, people who don’t know what “tyranny” is will never be able to defend against it. Leftism, because of its belief in totalitarian government, has a vested interest in preventing people from knowing what tyranny is.
2. “The cornerstone of democracy rests on the foundation of an educated electorate.”
The people, in a representative democracy (a republic) must have wisdom and virtue in order to elect people of wisdom and virtue. James Madison said almost those exact words.
3. “If we........