Education
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Public compulsory primary school promoters used the Press to their advantage waging a public campaign that argued that the result of these children who were not in school would be criminals costing society more money than the cost of publicly funded compulsory primary schools. Their real aim was to get the public school system to include primary school aged children in the system. The result was not only to this end but also the appointment of the compulsory promoters to the primary school committee. This assured that further decisions worked to toward and in favor of their agenda.
What “they” dont want us to know is that this expansion and control of the public sector through control of what the children of a society were taught was vital to the political and philosophical changes occurring in the United States during that period. More important than the inventions of the steamboat, the railroad, and the cotton gin, during this period prior to and during the industrial revolution, was the takeover of our great universities by Unitarians. This move turned places like Harvard from the high degree of Biblical literacy on which it was founded, which when tested resulted in a system of manageable and moral social order, into laboratories set up to experiment with pseudo-philosophy and secular humanist ideals. From that point on, the American culture would have as its basis for learning a man-centered philosophy that makes men into gods, denies faith in anything other than self, and lifts up worldly knowledge as a means to the perfection of mankind. By promoting the public and not the private or charity schools, these philosophers had an arena for keeping societys children away from teaching that did not agree with Unitarian though. They felt it was more valuable to society to teach skills than moral character. These Unitarians felt that the church schools were dangerous and poisonous to children and society, which had already proven to be