@Volunteer,
This is why so many of these youngsters feel the way they do about western values.
You need a standardized yard stick or ruler to be able to measure and communicate a meaningful measurement. Tell me, what are the instruments of national power?
To maintain nation, the nation must share cultural mores and have the skills required to accomplish national objectives. Failing to instill those mores through the educational system or allowing those mores to be replaced with other mores, causes chaos in social interaction and development or maintenance of civil society. It also prevents the establishment of shared national objectives.
Is our society more peaceful than it was? Is our society safer than it was? Are people happier than they were? Are we able to effectively identify and address threats?
Our educational system should teach facts and provide a shared understanding of the classics of western culture. In other words, there should be a core curriculum that teaches all students in the USA 3r mechanics and also provides all students with a familiarity with the classics of western literature, geography, and historical fact.
Eastern literature and comparative or multi-cultural studies as core curriculum should be reserved for students in late secondary grades. If these subjects are offered before those grades, they should be offered as optional courses.
Teaching modern literature and contemporary schools of thought should be reserved for the last two grades of secondary school or college/university.
Assertion of personal opinion: The primary reasons the teaching profession moved away from teaching western classics are boredom and greed.
I watched the following happen so I'm speaking as a witness.
Teachers teaching classics of western culture year after year got bored. Familiarity bred contempt and arrogance. Due to their familiarity with the classics and mechanics of grammar, they (the teachers and professors) began to think they could duplicate or surpass the old masters. They voiced this opinion in the classroom and in their professional relationships. I heard this clearly stated in both settings, so please don?t tell me I?m mistaken. Their boredom with western history and literature and pressure from discovery of "new age" eastern schools of thought intrigued them and provided the "freedom" they sought from the "straight jacket" of western thought. They were also searching for social theories and religious justification for indulging their lusts. They couldn?t find this using the Bible, so they chose to look to other religions or chuck religion altogether.
Greed came into the picture when teachers realized they could be better compensated for their time if their writings or the writings of their colleagues were used in the classroom. If they used the books written by a teacher in another school system or university and that teacher used their works, both would prosper.
Undergraduate education teaches the individual and prepares them with knowledge required for a profession or occupation. Graduate education is designed to prepare one for professional participation and expand the body of knowledge of a particular profession. PhD candidates must add to the body of knowledge to attain their PhD.
The university systems required each professor to publish a certain amount each year in order to maintain their prestige and position within the university. There is only so much one can say about classics. After that, in order to maintain their rate of publication teachers/professors must look to other works. The eastern world provided fertile ground for translation and exploration. Over time, the resultant works supplanted the classics of western culture.
The greatest generation was able to work together and share a common goal of defeating an external enemy because they shared common values and a common core of knowledge. This is true for the Eastern and Western block nations. Eliminating that common understanding in a nation is the first step to dividing that nation and bringing about its downfall.
The purpose of the Bible Party of the USA is to change the political atmosphere so the people of the USA can restore its values to those it was founded upon.
