He who Controls the Children, Controls the Future

The average child spends eight hours per day in public school, listening to lectures from teachers who do not know their background, their likes, dislikes or their religious preferences. During those eight hours, students are lectured from a curriculum prepared and approved by the federal government that often promotes ideals we, as Christians, do not endorse.

These ideas are drilled into their heads day after day until they are as real to the child as the values they once held dear from the teachings they received at home. They embrace what they are taught, what the students around them are saying, what the media is promoting until they are left without their own opinion, and they forget how to question.

When children quit questioning the world around them, they lose a part of themselves, and we, as a society, lose a valuable proponent of freedom.

Albert Einstein said,

“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.”

Distractions surround us in the form of work, Internet, television, movies and sporting events. These distractions often become more important in our lives than the small questions nagging us during the quiet hours. These distractions also distance us from our children.