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I read Atlas Shrugged when it was first published in 1957. I was 14 at the time. That should explain a lot. I've read it twice since as we have become progressively collectivist in the U.S. No, we're nothing as bad as the world Ayn Rand described, but we're on the road. This year we began to see that it is possible for used to progress even further into the abyss as young voters have taken to Bernie Sanders. Many criticize Rand's story as ham-handed because her heroes are larger than life and the villains unbelievably evil or dim-witted. Well, Bernie certainly fits the latter mold. Ultimately, the inclination of our youngest voters to follow Bernie is an indictment of our educational system. How could they be so quick to cast aside liberty and self-responsibility unless they were indoctrinated rather than educated?
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CDR Michael Goldschmidt
Unfortunately, education ultimately becomes educators' tool to indoctrinate the masses. Every dictator, Fascist or Communist, has embraced that mandatory public "education" is essential to state power. It is encouraging, therefore, to see education decentralizing, as the homeschooling movement expands.
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CPT Jack Durish
CDR Michael Goldschmidt - Don't celebrate yet. Home schooled children must pass the same tests as other students to gain admittance to colleges and universities that rely on standardized tests (standardized by the US Dept of Education and Teachers Unions). Thus they must adhere to the same curriculum including Common Core
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CDR Michael Goldschmidt
At least they're not being regimented and taught to value submission to authority above all else. Hopefully, too, CPT Jack, more homeschooled kids will either go into the sciences to get something for the debt they're going to take on, or skip college altogether in favor of an education. We need more entrepreneurs and innovators, more tradespeople and fewer sheep.
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Atlas Shrugged is a great read. However, I found The Fountainhead much more to my liking.
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