EDUCATION
I remember fondly the days I eagerly anticipated going to school each day. It wasn’t exactly for the education I would receive but rather for the social aspect of being with friends, recess and playing. Little did I know the value of the education I would receive starting in the small three room schoolhouse I attended.
I was later transferred to the big school in town about twenty miles down the road. My sisters and I rode the big yellow school bus to and from school stopping along the way to pick up others. I vaguely remember having instruction in government at different levels. The Declaration of Independence, The Federalist Papers, and the Constitution of the United States of America were repeatedly covered as was the memorizing of the Preamble to the Constitution and daily reciting the Pledge of Allegiance, most often followed by a prayer.
In the tenth grade, truly my most sophomoric year, Mr. Harrison had the duty to teach a class called “Civics.” This was a full class devoted to government and how it worked, the Constitution focusing on checks and balances and the explicit duties and responsibilities of each branch of government. What has happened to this type of class? We call it education, yet, we don’t get educated on what enables us to go to school and be educated. How many of America’s senior class can tell you what the “Bill of Rights” is and what liberties we are guaranteed through the application of them? How many graduating seniors can tell you the three branches of government and their limited capacities for governing? How many can tell you how the Supreme Court was established, how members were selected and their explicit responsibilities and duties. Do we remember how the number of representatives and senators for each state are determined? What are the terms each of the above persons allowed to serve? How is the number of electors chosen for the Electoral College?
The very people that can’t answer these questions are, as adults, charged with going to the polls and making intelligent decisions selecting our representation. This is the first step in realizing a government “of the people, for the people.” How have our entitlement programs, the great society and the runaway welfare mentality become standard fare? I answer this question myself. We no longer are an educated populace and we do not hold people responsible to do what they were elected to do. Not being educated we will never be able to act responsibly as we should.
The very ruling class we have created do not want an educated, strong populace to represent. Knowledge by the individuals would curb their ability to lead us down the road of destruction. The dummying down of America has been one of the great successes our modern government has accomplished. Education bringing true and honest knowledge must be brought back to this, the great example for freedom, for us to survive.
Every American should take the challenge to read and study the two most important documents that create the foundation for our freedom and liberty, the Declaration of Independence and The Constitution of the United States. Discuss what you read and learn with others. Encourage everyone you know or meet to become educated. Only after we become educated can we, each and everyone, help retake our country back from this runaway government and group of career elite ruling persons, to be what it was designed and created to be.
Together, we can make America great again. I care not what party or individual you favor, but it is your responsibility to know why you support them. You can only know this answer when you become educated and realize what we are about to lose. Become educated, get involved, fight, and with the help of God we can bring our country back from the eve of destruction.
The thoughts and ideas expressed above are exclusively those of Jack Straley. We may agree, and that’s fine, or we may disagree, that’s okay too. My sole purpose is to encourage others to think, study, and become involved. Exercise your freedom and above all else please vote.
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