Educating a nation of intellectual and moral imbeciles
The importance of dismantling of the Department of EducationIn 1943, C.S. Lewis warned of a day when our country’s educated class would claim that it made sense to “geld the stallion and then bid him be fruitful.” In his seminal work, “The Abolition of Man,” he accused the ivory tower of creating “men without chests,” where instead of pursuing the truth, our schools would educate an entire generation of moral and intellectual amputees with no understanding of the good, the true and the beautiful.
He predicted a time when the average graduate could no longer discern the difference between right and wrong or even be able to add, subtract, multiply and divide. That day is here, and this is why President Trump’s dismantling of the Department of Education is the most important thing he has done so far in his second term.
Since the 1970s, the Department of Education has failed our nation’s schools and students. Year after year, we have elevated social engineering and political indoctrination over teaching the basics of reading, writing, arithmetic and personal virtue. Decade after decade, we have promoted students from one grade level to the next, not because of academic achievement but merely because they “participated.” The result is a morally vacuous citizenry that cannot read, write, understand the basics of logic and science, or tell you why it is wrong to force girls to undress in front of boys in the girls’ locker room.
