This program continues my reading, and comment, on portions of an article written about Professor Elizabeth Bartholet of Harvard University, who contends that homeschooling is abusive to children, and thus should be banned.  I will refute her arguments with scripture and testimony from homeschooling parents. 

This is a very important subject, because it addresses the foundational principle of who controls the children; whose children are they.  Abe Lincoln said that the philosophy of the classroom in one generation would be the philosophy of the government in the next.  George Orwell in his book 1984 expressed a similar sentiment: “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”  The present controls the past: the teachers determine what information to transmit to the students; the past controls the future: what the students learn in their formative years will greatly determine how they behave as adults and how they shape society and government in the future.

Professor Bartholet appears to desire to dissolve the family unit and reduce the influence of parents over their children, replacing the parents with government bureaucrats.  In our less enlightened days, we called this forced abduction of children “kidnapping.”  What is truly troubling is that this professor, who’s tyrannical views are based on “evidence” totally divorced from reality, and who proposes policies that directly contradict Biblical instruction and our Constitutional liberty, occupies a highly paid position of influence over the youth who will govern our country, indoctrinating most of her students to her oppressive ideas and screening out any who reject her tyrannical policies.

 

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