Aug. 27, 2022 - Epoch Times
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| So I believe that we are in a war of ideas. | |
| And I believe that any parent who doesn't recognize that they're on a battlefield, that their children are ground zero in this effort, are going to lose. | |
| If we don't know that we're in a battle, how can we ever win it? | |
| If we don't recognize that there are people out there who are kind of progressive, socialist, neo-Marxist, infiltrating the classroom, pushing their agenda, the media, academia, You know, Hollywood and all the rest. | |
| Like, if we don't recognize that this is an intentional effort on the part of people we vehemently disagree with, how are we going to win? | |
| We're going to forever be playing defense, trying to mitigate our losses as best we can, but never gaining ground. | |
| So, for me, as a so-called freedom fighter, this is an intentional play to say, I know other people out there going after our children. | |
| Whether it's through schools or Hollywood and media or children's books and trying to get parents talking to kids about totally different ideas, there is an effort out there to change the mindset of the rising generation. | |
| This is not a new thing. | |
| Collectivists for decades and centuries have recognized that they have to capture the minds and the loyalties of the young. | |
| Every authoritarian dictator in world history has tried to infiltrate the classroom. | |
| Just a few weeks ago, Russia was announcing that the Kremlin is going to lean more into curriculum development to uphold the greatness of Putin and teach young people about this kind of communist mindset. | |
| So this is not a new thing. | |
| Again, if we understand our history, let's learn from it. | |
| And if we learn from history that collectivists are trying to co-opt and change the minds of our children, maybe then that can inform what we as parents do today, and that is give our kid a shield and a sword before we send them out into the intellectual battlefield. | |
| Give them a foundation of these ideas that when they're, you know, Listening to their teacher or reading a textbook or looking at TikTok or wherever they're consuming information, give our kids a foundation where they can evaluate those ideas rather than just absorb them like a sponge. | |
| To our earlier point about authoritarianism, right? | |
| If our kids are just going to go trust authority, they're going to get all kinds of counter messages that we don't necessarily want them to or that aren't best for them. | |
| I think during COVID, All of the Zoom schooling that happened for a period of time gave parents an insight into what their kids were learning because the parents could see. | |
| And it alarmed a lot of parents. | |
| It's what in large measure led to the school board protests across the country that are still happening to this day. | |
| For me then, this project becomes an effort to basically wake parents up to say, whether you're going to teach this or something else or a package of ideas or however you want to interpret what we're talking about, the key is intentionality. | |
| The problem is that they've just trusted these institutions, they've delegated to the schools the upbringing of their children during their most formative years to learn whatever the teachers in the textbooks say. | |
| But if parents are intentional, if they're eyes wide open and saying, what are my kids learning, what are the sources that we're trusting, how can I teach my kids how to think and evaluate what they're hearing from all these different sources, then I'm happy. | |
| Whether they agree with me or not at the end, whether they are wholesale drinking whatever the Tuttle Twins has to offer them or not, I don't care. | |
| For me, this is a mission in engaging parents to wake up and take charge of the education of their children rather than delegating it to someone else. | |
| There's a quote from an evangelical pastor, can we as Christians really be surprised when we send our children to Caesar's schools and they return home as Romans? | |
| And to me, there's a political corollary to that question, right? | |
| Can we as freedom lovers really be surprised when we surrender our children to the state to educate them and then they come home as statists or social justice warriors or whatever? | |
| We can't be surprised, I don't think. |
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