The RenewaNation Review 2020 Volume 12 Issue 1 | Page 15

“If you teach your children nonsense for decades,
it should not surprise you that you suddenly
live in a culture that has no sense.”
If you teach your children nonsense for decades, it
should not surprise you that you suddenly live in a culture
that has no sense.
Abraham Lincoln once said, “The philosophy of the
schoolroom in one generation will become the philosophy
of the government in the next.”
Richard Weaver told us, “Ideas have consequences.” Your
grandmother said, “Garbage in, garbage out.” There is no
such thing as a neutral idea. All ideas are directional. Good
ideas lead to good culture, good community, good corpo-
rations, and good kids. Bad ideas lead to the opposite. As
Barack Obama’s pastor once said, “The chickens come home
to roost.” All ideas have consequences. All ideas bear fruit.
We are where we are today because of education. The
fault for the nightly news lies with our colleges, universi-
ties, and our public schools. But the blame also lies with us.
All parents and other citizens who support these broken
schools, with their tuition and tax dollars, need to wake up
and face reality. Until we stop sending our kids off to intel-
lectually bankrupt schools, we can expect nothing other
than an intellectually bankrupt culture.
Why would anyone want their son or daughter to incur
massive debt to spend four years (or more) in what amounts
to a politically correct indoctrination camp? Why is mort-
gaging the family farm to send your child off to an intellec-
tual gulag of snowflake fascism a good idea?
The fault is ours. Why do we continue to vote for school
bonds and throw more money at teachers who elevate
LGBTQ over the ABCs? Why do we remain silent when
our children seem to know more about condoms than the
U.S. Constitution? Why do we shrug in silence when they
can tell us more about drag queens than the Declaration of
Independence?
The only solution is to stop supporting this nonsense.
It is really quite simple: If you want a moral culture,
then stop paying for your kids to be taught by those who
mock morality.
If your school is woke, it’s a joke. ■
Dr. Everett Piper, former president of Oklahoma Wesleyan University, is a columnist for The
Washington Times and author of Not A Day Care: The Devastating Consequences of Abandon-
ing Truth (Regnery, 2017). See more at dreverettpiper.com.
Copyright © 2019 The Washington Times. All Rights Reserved. Reprinted by permission.
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