In The News - Commentary by Kim

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Friday, June 09, 2006

Global Education


He alone, who owns the youth, gains the Future!

Satan's vices are always the same, repackaged in bright new "PC" wrapping, and we fall for them every time. The above quote was from Adolf Hitler in his 1935 speech at Reichsparteitag. Hitler knew that in order to ensure the ingraining and survival of a particular philosophy on a culture; you must completely indoctrinate the children to your view. It seems this same mindset is now the driving force behind the new move towards Global Education. The following is a part of a news story from The Washington Times.




Learning globally

By George Archibald
THE WASHINGTON TIMES

The Bush administration has begun issuing grants to help spread a United Nations-sponsored school program that aims to become a "universal curriculum" for teaching global citizenship, peace studies and equality of world cultures.
The goal is to devise a curriculum to teach "a set of culturally neutral universal values to which all people aspire," based on human rights, equality of the sexes and "open-mindedness to change and obligation to environmental protection and sustainable development."
The U.S. Education Department has issued its first $1.2 million grant to implement the European-based International Baccalaureate (IB) program in middle schools that are to become "feeder schools" for the IB's high school diploma program in low-income school districts.
"We are ever mindful of the lessons of September 11, one of which is that all future measures of a rigorous K-12 education must include a solid grounding in other cultures, other languages and other histories," Education Secretary Rod Paige said a year ago as he announced new global-education initiatives in U.S. schools.
"In other words, we need to put the 'world' back into 'world-class' education," he said.

Now let's not be mistaken, this Global Curriculum the President is pushing through the Department of Education has nothing to do with raising the nation's failing test scores. This program is geared toward teaching (or indoctrinating, I would prefer to say), our children with so-called "universal values". Hitler used the same approach when attempting to mold the young German minds to his fascist ideology. I work in the education field, so I am well aware of the anti-Christian sentiments held by many. I don't want anyone in the school system teaching my own children any of their PC values that may go against their Christian upbringing. It is not their place to do so.
I ran across an article by a very articulate sixteen year old at the time named Ashley, called Public Schools and What You're Up Against. In the article, she describes her experiences as a Christian student in the public schools, and the battles she endured in the system. It is well worth the read. If the schools are already attempting to force their values on children now, how much more will they with the establishment of this Global curriculum?
Teach my children to read and write and leave the teaching of values to me!!!!

posted by Kim Ferguson @ 6:55 PM  

10 Comments:

  • At Saturday, June 10, 2006 8:09:00 PM, Blogger Traci Anerson said…

    Thank you for the article! I try explaining this to people and they think I'm some kind of conspiracy nut....well,
    not EVERYONE...but some people.

     

  • At Sunday, June 11, 2006 12:10:00 AM, Blogger Kim Ferguson said…

    Hi Tracifish, thanks for checking out my blog and leaving comments. Oh, check out my article "What's a Little Loss of Privacy for the sake of Security". I think some ppl think I'm a conspiracy nut for that article. But the study of prophecy shows us what things will be like.

    Kim

     

  • At Sunday, June 11, 2006 9:58:00 PM, Blogger Jay said…

    I always considered that the values I taught my children were solid enough to withstand any contradicting values somebody else may want to teach. Of course, my kids were pretty smart and the values were ones I lived by...they learned them mostly by observing me.

     

  • At Monday, June 12, 2006 7:20:00 AM, Blogger Kim Ferguson said…

    YOu're absolutely right Jay. I totally agree. I have instilled the same in my children and even at a young age they are both great kids who know right from wrong and practice it, in spite of any outside pressures.

    However, my problem with this Global Education comes mainly from knowing where this is all leading according to Biblical prophecy. If I didn't have the advantage of knowing where this was leading, I would probably not find a problem with it.

    We know that there is a coming leader who is going to have control over most of the world. He is going to come in under the guise of making the world more peaceful and safe. The world is going to look upon this man probably as a savior or sort because of this, enough that many are going to fall under his control. But the scriptures tell us that this is not going to be a good man. He is going to wage a war (by persecution) with Christians and Jews, and basically everyone that does not bow down, so to speak, to this man. THis is so typical of dictators, we see even today. Imagine that this man will have more control than any other dictator ever had.

    Now this coming world leader is what most of the world knows as the AntiChrist. Most won't recognize him as such because he will come as this man who seemingly advocates peace and making the world more secure. BUt scriptures that were written thousands of years ago have told us about this whole "peace" and "safety" trend and this one-world government, and the trend of bringing together the religions of the world, and this is exactly the trend that we see happening now. So much of what has been prophesied thousands of years ago is coming true (and has already come true), much more than I have mentioned in this post.

    So you see, this is why I am highly suspect of any trend of leaning towards Globalization, and making the world peaceful and safe. Because I know that man's attempts at this will fail because of the way we are, and that the only real peace will come when Jesus is reigning on the earth.

     

  • At Wednesday, June 14, 2006 10:17:00 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Well I am as much an individualist as you will ever meet. However, I found no real substance in her "article".

    She wants to be different yet does not want to stand out or be made to feel out of the group. If you want to be different by definition, you are not part of the group get over it. Wear it like a badge of honor if you are happy with whom you are. On the other hand Christians seem to have no problem shaming others and making them fell like they aren’t part of the group.

    Whenever dealing with others that you have disagreements with there is some compromise needed. It does not mean you quit being who you are it means you quit trying to shame others for who they are.

    She says, "They are told that everyone's lifestyle is to be tolerated, even accepted."

    Gasp God forbid that people are able to live freely in the land of the free. It does not mean you have to accept it, just that your opinion of it is not to be law of the land. If in fact the founding fathers had wanted to create an intolerant Christian Theocracy they certainly could have done so. They went out of their way not to and to prohibit it.

    The fallacy is in the notion that someone else’s life is ours to "accept". As I recall if God wanted us to all live according to the Bible he would have not given us free will. I also cannot recall the part of the Bible where he says for Christians to make up for this oversight by bullying and legislating others to behave in a way they find acceptable.

    I am for religious rights for all not just the majority. You want to pray in school. Then get down with your bad self, does not bother me at all. However with the freedom of religion also comes the inverse right which is freedom to not choose religion. It is a concept that Christians will have to come to terms with if they want to live in peace with others in society. Christians have neither the right nor the justification to heap their righteous indignation on others and frankly, it is the inverse of what the scriptures teach.

    While it cool to see someone of her age with strong convictions and speaking out on issues she feels passionately about. It is constantly marred with self contradiction and a sense that she is on the right side of things. Right from wrong, she even ends thank you for teaching me to do the right thing mom.

    This is her mother’s perception of right. She is not a free thinker who has not fallen for the tricks of the world as she espouses. She has been raised to think a certain way and is to narrow minded to even entertain that there are other notions that may contain valid perspectives. She is in fact everything she proclaims to detest.

    I would just like to say there are certainly problems in schools I would not disagree with the concept of people being dumbed down and the worthlessness of the UN.

     

  • At Thursday, June 15, 2006 10:15:00 AM, Blogger Kim Ferguson said…

    James, thanks for taking the time to read and comment on my site.

    First of all, I am a teacher and when I was in a program for my teaching certification, I discovered this anti-Christian ideology from many of my professors. There were also philosophies that were espoused that I felt pressure to agree with in order to be accepted to receive my certification. In our program, said that we could spend all the money and time in the program and then at the end not be certified if they felt that we didn't have the right "disposition". If I would've voiced my opinion about how I disagreed with certain philosophies, I would have been looked upon as having a "negative disposition", and therefore not certified to teach. So I completely understand where Ashley is coming from when she speaks about conformity of the group pressures in education. And we are talking about impressionable young people and not adults like I was when I was in the program. Perhaps you just have to live it to understand it.

    I don't believe that Ashley is only living by what her parents taught her without any mind of her own, as you have suggested. True Christianity and the love of God cannot be taught. It has to pierce your heart, and that is something that cannot be imposed on anyone. That is why you cannot force anyone to be a believer. It is impossible. THe only thing you can do is maybe force someone to follow traditions, but following traditions does not make you a true Christian. If loving God and true repentance from sins is not deep in your heart, you are not a Christian, no matter how many traditions you follow. Parents can teach their children about God but ultimately the decision to have Jesus is their heart is the choice of each individual person. Christianity is not inherited.

    Furthermore, Ashley was not saying that she felt everyone had to be a Christian, but that the education system pressures children to conform to a certain philosophy.

    How are Christians trying to bully and legistlate others to behave in certain ways, as you stated?

    I do know I don't want this country to continue down the path that it is going because I love my country and I don't want God's judgement to come down on it. What people don't understand is that the way of life they enjoy could be taken away from them if they continue to not acknowledge the source of their blessings - the Lord. We can look at many instances in scriptures where God has judged nations. By continuing to try to push GOd from our society, those people are unwittingly destroying our country by inviting the judgement of God. They don't realize what they are doing because they feel that we have been so blessed as a country by our own doing. That is totally false. We are blessed because the Lord has blessed us. And just as the Lord gaveth, the Lord can taketh away. So of course people can worship whomever they want, but this direct attack on Christianity is only inviting the judgement of God.

     

  • At Thursday, June 15, 2006 5:42:00 PM, Blogger Kim Ferguson said…

    Oh, one more thing I must add. All laws are a legistlation of someone's morality. We have a law saying that we can't steal or kill. Well, someone's morality has said that it is wrong to steal and kill, and that we should have laws to say that we can't do it. So to say that Christians are trying to legistlate their morality, well that's all laws are in the first place. SO according to your philosophy, there should then be no laws because we wouldn't want to legistlate anyone's morality, and everyone should do whatever they feel is right to them. What kind of world would that be? Not one that I would want to live in. This world is evil enough with the constraints of the law, imagine how it would be without any constraints of the law.

     

  • At Thursday, June 15, 2006 10:51:00 PM, Blogger Beth said…

    you could always homeschool

     

  • At Friday, June 16, 2006 12:33:00 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    I disagree laws are not based on morlaity. They are based on the violation of rights of others. At least the valid ones. The ones that are wrong are the ones that miss that point.

    You also assumed my position on this which I never gave you. What kind of world would it be without the legislation of morality.

    Free

     

  • At Saturday, June 17, 2006 9:09:00 AM, Blogger Kim Ferguson said…

    Beth: Yes, I guess you say that I basically do homeschool since I teach my kids materials two-three years ahead of their present grade level. I plan to homeschool exclusively when they are in Middle School.

    However, this issue goes far beyond my kids personally as I replied to Jay. This is an issue of where this trend is leading. I know my own kids will be fine by the grace of God, because they already have asked Jesus to live in their hearts. However this whole scenario is leading to the coming Global government and it so many people are going to fall prey to their ideology.

     

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