So I'm reading along in Christianity and Liberalism, by J. Gresham Machen last night and I come to a very interesting section in the introduction about the public schools in America. This is so profound and so prophetic and I just had to post it.
"A public school system if it means the providing of free education for those who desire it, is a noteworthy and beneficent achievement of modern times; but when once it becomes monopolistic it is the most perfect instrument of tyranny which has yet been devised. Freedom of thought in the middle ages was combated by the Inquisition, but the modern method is far more effective. Place the lives of children in their formative years, despite the convictions of their parents, under the intimate control of experts appointed by the state, force them to attend schools where the mind is filled with materialism of the day, and it is difficult to see how even the remnants of liberty can subsist."
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