Education

Why is our education system failing us?  Why are our children not learning to read?  Why are our children not learning the necessary skills for life?
Maybe the answer can be found in Isabel Paterson's "The God of the Machine": "The truth is that in a free country any person who remains illiterate might as well be left so; although simple literacy is not a sufficient education in itself, but the elementary key to an indispensable part of education in civilization.  But that further education in civilization cannot be obtained at all under full political control of the schools.  It is possible only to a certain frame of mind in which knowledge is pursued voluntarily." (p 259)
So why do so many of our children fail basic skills tests?  Is it because our schools are under politicial control?  Education cannot be gained at the point of a gun or under the force of law.  It can only be gained when it is pursued voluntarily.
We need to get our government out of education.