One Man’s Folly – courtesy of St. Andrews Reformed Presby. Church JKPC

Is it just me or does everybody enjoy those jokes/riddles that run along these lines;“How many (fill in the blank) does it take to (fill in the blank)”? You know like, “How many people from a-certain-ethnic-background does it take to screw in a light bulb” (apologies to Parma natives). Well, I have one you probably haven’t heard, and maybe it isn’t too humorous but here goes. How many men does it take to screw-up an entire nation? Well, if his ideas are powerful enough one wicked man can wreak havoc upon an entire nation seemingly single-handedly. The pages of history are made filthy with the telling of evil ideas advanced by evil men with great affectivity. And few have proved as potent and evil to our nation as John Dewey, Father of the Modern Education system and the pragmatic instrumentalist worldview he helped craft and advance. June 01 marked the 59th anniversary of John Dewey’s death, who yet being dead still speaks – all too loudly. Dewey was a prolific author and agitator (a.k.a.” community organizer”) . His collected writings fill 37 volumes and he was a founding signatory for the original “Humanist Manifesto” in 1933. But surely his crowning achievement was the utter dismantling of the once robust liberal arts biblically-based educational system our forefathers labored to institute. Says  Dewey regarding education; “Education is a regulation of the process of coming to share in the social consciousness; and that the adjustment of individual activity on the basis of this social consciousness is the only sure method of social reconstruction”. Aha, so now we know why little Johnny can’t read. It’s because we’re not to teach little Johnny to read, ‘rite or do ‘rithmetic.  We’re to teach little Johnny to be Johnny Rebel. Johnny will help us usher in Utopia by being “adjusted” to the “social consciousness” in order to “reconstruct” society. But as far as knowing what 1+1 equals and why, neither Johnny nor society needs that knowledge. Besides, little Johnny’s too stupid to learn the 3 R’s. Have you seen his grades lately??!!