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Public Education Against America

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I have read at least half a dozen books by people with widely diverse interests, but they are all saying the same thing--our kids are being systematically brainwashed into the atheistic worldview that is secular humanism. This book is the only one that explains exactly how the educators are doing it. It shows parents exactly what to look for, and how speech codes disguise what is really being taught. I know there are parents out there who think this is only going on in California and Massachusetts, but I can testify that these techniques have been used in Kansas for at least 20 years. They are the reason I pulled my kids out of the public schools. When my son was inducted into the gifted program, I couldn't understand why they had to do psychological profiles on him. Now I know. I spent some time in the education program at one of the public universities in Kansas and dropped out of it because they were training future teachers in the techniques described in this book. This book is a must read if only because it shows parents what to look for.

Whether you lean to the left or the right or are middle of the road this is a must read for all parents, educators and students! This book is not an attack on teachers. It is a revealing look at what is going on and the curriculum in today's public schools. Few realize the federal mandates and control imposed on all public schools and even fewer realize the basis of the curriculum which is being taught to our children, that often includes politicians and educators themselves. The book reveals the influences of the "Hegelian dialectic" and the psychology used to shape our children into what the secular progressives would have them to be. It reveals how our children are stripped of their values and lead to accept the values of an almost anything goes socialistic society. Only those far left and extremely liberal will not enjoy this book, and that is only because it reveals their dirty little secrets.

Public Education Against America reveals what's going on in public school that most parents don't know or refuse to believe. There really are people in high places pulling the strings to ensure your kids don't acquire the reading skills necessary to develop a good vocabulary or the writing skills necessary to develop those all-important thinking skills. If your child can think, they can't control him or her the way they do the millions of functionally illiterate public school graduates who depend on government support because their lack of learning makes it impossible for them to suppport themselves. Even worse, the same folks limiting core knowledge and thinking skills are successfully brainwashing your kids with the fundamentals of Humanism -- Darwinism, Moral Relativism and Socialism. If you don't believe it, read Maddoux' book and scores of others like it that are being published every year. These books are all saying the same thing -- someone is trying to control knowledge, all knowledge. That someone is your enemy and mine. Please get your kids out of Big Brother's schools before it's too late!

This book is right on the money. As a non-teaching individual who has a degree in secondary education, AND certification/teaching license to accompany that degree, I can personally attest to most everything in this book. There are some opinions in there that are the authors own...but thats to be expected--ITS HIS OWN BOOK! The facts, however, are well-documented and sources are adequately and abundantly supplied. It will really open the eyes of anyone even remotely considering the possibility something other than public school. And I'll throw this in for free....studies have shown that children who have not been "brought-up" in the public schools are actually more adept to handling themselves appropriately social situations....so don't use social skills as the only reason for sending a child to the public schools. (I keep two copies of this book at my home...a personal copy and a loaner copy to others who might want reasons for why my wife and I home-school and don't want a lot of statistical info.)

This book will probably reach only the Christian right, and that would be a shame, because there is a lot of good information in this book that applies to all parents who have children in public school. It also affects all those who plan to live in the United States for the next 30 years.

For instance, the first chapter is on schools that not only indoctrinate young children in Islam, but require the children to actually practice Islam by memorizing a prayer in Arabic and actually praying that prayer, and by fasting at the right time, by taking a Muslim name for themselves, etc.

Other chapters deal with indoctrination of children against patriotism and against war. The book quotes David Horowitz that, "There are more Marxists on the faculties of American colleges than in the entire former communist bloc." (p. 65).

The main problem with this book is not only its restriction to the Christian right, but the fact that the author does not understand the full extent of the threat we are up against. When he is not reciting the usual epithets of "political correctness" or worse still "liberalism", he repeatedly calls it "secular humanism." The New Ideology is not humanism. It is not even liberalism. Yes, it is NOT liberalism. Liberals would allow you to have your say and not call you names for saying it. And the threat of the New Ideology is not that it is secular. If you want to know what the New Ideology is and learn more about how it has undermined education in this country, read While America Sleeps: How Islam, Immigration and Indoctrination Are Destroying America From Within. This New Ideology is formidable and its control of public education is a threat to the very existence of the United States as a democracy.

Well written and documented. This should be a terrifying wake up call to america. How did Obama get elected? Why are even republican politicians now at least sell outs if not out and out traitors to american ideals?

Hard as it is to believe, this book explains it all. We reap what we sow, and for 70+ years we've been letting our schools sow anti-american beliefs. This is why we live in an Obamination.

I just picked this book up in a client's office where I had some spare time. I am tempted to ask to take it with me because it is intriguing. It offers a lot of unsubstantiated opinion about a straw man argument that secular progressives are intentionally feeding Americans propaganda in an attempt to make the world more secular.

The opinions are thought provoking and the material interesting, but it is so far fetched to think that this is an actual agenda instead of the simple result of an accumulation of fair minded policy decisions that end up not supporting a Christian perspective of the world.

To be fair in my review I have not read the entire book, yet. Maybe Maddoux raps the whole thing up by factually demonstrating the roots of this conspiracy, but I have my doubts about that. In any event in todays media environment it does shed light on the current relationship in the Rupert Murdoch empire and the Republican party. It actually reads like a self fulfilling prophecy.

There is also no doubt in my mind that I am biased as I approach the subject. I happen to be secular and a progressive. I am not brainwashed I simply choose to see the world as it is. I like science because it requires that someone like Maddoux use logical, testable, reproducible hypothesis and testing to be taken seriously. Of course he does not, so I am left secure that the RIGHT is still wrong and this book is more a look in the mirror for conservatives than reflecting any truth on the world and it's people.

How any sane indiviual could honestly believe a single bit of the garbage presented in this book is beyond me. It is laced with blatant propaganda designed to paint liberals as sinister Communists bent on the utter annhilation of Christianity, when in reality, most have much milder views, and many are in fact Christians. Some of my favorite points: schools encourage children to think for themselves. Heaven forbid! We certainly wouldn't want kids to have their own opinions or ideas! Words such as "indoctrination" and "agenda" are cleverly used in place of the more realistic terms "teaching" and "goals." Perhaps the very best part is the absolute hypocrisy. Maddoux goes on and on about how freedom of speech is under attack by the so-called "New Left" and how liberals are trying to eradicate liberty in order to esablish a socialist, humanist, every-other-sort-of-negative-ist society. That's interesting...I wonder what he would say conservatives are doing by attempting to rid the country of anything not explicitly Christian (freedom of religion?). The bottom line is that Christian teachings have no place in public schools. If you are so terrified of your children being exposed to anything other than Christianity, home school them or send them to Christian schools. As much as it may shock and dismay some people, not everyone is a Christian. It is not the job of public schools to teach children morals and values. That is your job as a responsible Christian parent.