Ever since my son and daughter left home, my life focus has been education and democracy. This is because my grandmother was a teacher and her generation defended democracy in the class room. Something the US stopped doing with the passing of the 1958 National Defense Education Act. I was in school when that act was implemented and remember vividly our teachers walking around as though they were in shock. That was during the cold war, when we ducking under our desk, in case of nuclear war.
So I was afraid when my teachers were acting so strangely. Finally, a male teacher announced, we had just changed the purpose of education. We began educating for a technological society with unknown values. When my grandmother died and the US declared a national youth crisis, I began researching.I hope others care about what I have written, because I have a lot to say. For years I researched the history of education, by collecting old books about education and old text books, and I have some very interesting books. Because we replaced our liberal education with Germany's model of education, I also collect old books about Germany, that have very interesting to things to about the New World Order or what Eisenhower called the Military Industrial Complex, and later the Bush family called the New World Order. Today it is not only children who need to learn of democracy, but the adults as well.
Germany was a Christian Republic and what we defended our democracy against it. Public education is like a genii in a bottle. The defined purpose is the wish and the students are the genii. We changed that wish when we mobilized for the first world war, by adding vocational training. We changed that wish more dramatically in 1958, when we adopted the German model of education and began preparing our young to be products for industry, and to serve the Military Industrial Complex. What our schools are manifesting is not what they manifested when my grandmother was a teacher. Only when democracy is defended in the classroom is it defended.