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Bully Pulpit

The term "bully pulpit" stems from President Theodore Roosevelt's reference to the White House as a "bully pulpit," meaning a terrific platform from which to persuasively advocate an agenda. Roosevelt often used the word "bully" as an adjective meaning superb/wonderful. The Bully Pulpit features news, reasoned discourse, opinion and some humor.

Monday, March 03, 2008

Note to parents: Let schools burn!

One cannot fix what is not broken, and the schools are working as they are designed to work. This is not a battle that can be fought and won; it is not a battle that should be fought. Homeschooling is but a stop-gap; in the long term, it is technology that will put an end to the 100-year American experiment with Prussian pragmatism. But until that day, do whatever you must to extricate your children from the system, teach them well and watch with confidence in the future as the professional educators immolate themselves and their system in a self-administered act of faith.

Vox Day

Infatuation with Bismark's system was the foundation of American, Italian, and German fascism. Hitler's Nazis banned homeschooling early in their rise to power. Homeschooling continues to be illegal in Germany today. Mussolini outlawed home and private schools under his mantra of "Everything within the state, nothing outside the state." American progressives of the early Twentieth Century founded nationwide public schools on the models established by Bismark and Mussolini.

Never mind that man behind the curtain...

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