Posted on 04/28/2010 5:18:13 AM PDT by Loud Mime
“The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.”
Samuel Adams
Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.
Samuel Adams
John Witherspoon, The Dominion of Providence Over the Passions of Men, 1776
Sam Adams and John Witherspoon were and are exactly correct! Where do you suppose we are today?
That's exactly right! The founders abhorred the very thought of a democracy but Karl Marx and Frederick Engles absolutely LOVED the idea!
Ohhh...great quote. Thanks for the tip!
“Adams argues that public schools are the best means of promoting virtue? Clearly, the schools are promoting their concept of virtue. How’s that working out for us?”
Samual Adams had it right. So what happened along the way?
The founders of the United States believed that useful education — that which produced liberty – must have its foundation in Christianity.
Education in colonial America was primarily centered in the home and church, with the Bible being the focal point of all education. Schools were started to provide a Christian education to those who were not able to receive such training at home and to supplement home education. The first schools were started by the church.
Colleges and universities were started as seminaries to train a godly and literate clergy. In fact, 106 of the first 108 colleges were founded on the Christian faith.
The father of the American Revolution, Samuel Adams, declared that education in the principles of the Christian religion is the means of renovating our age. He wrote in a letter on October 4, 1790, to John Adams, then vice president of the United States:
“Let divines and philosophers, statesmen and patriots, unite their endeavors to renovate the age, by impressing the minds of men with the importance of educating their little boys and girls, of inculcating in the minds of youth the fear and love of the Deity and universal philanthropy, and in subordination to these great principles, the love of their country; of instructing them in the art of self-government, without which they never can act a wise part in the government of societies, great or small; in short, of leading them in the study and practice of the exalted virtues of the Christian system.”
if shcools are the best means of promoting anything, they can promote the loss of virtue as well.
What was it that Stalin or Lenin said about the powers of controlling schools?
But the Federalist Papers have many references to Democracy, all bad.
The founders also believed that the Federal government should have nothing to do with Education.
BFL
I’d missed that - and it is spot on. Thanks for posting it.
Current Occupant of White House - COWH. I always call him the cow because I’ll be damned if I’m going to call him the President.
It’s so hard to pick a favorite quote from that orator.
Thanks for the Ping.
I am simply amazed at the wisdom of these men.
Thanks for posting this. ‘Pod.
Oh wait, wrong thread...
Black Lager?
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