Freddy Finkelstein has left a new comment on your post "Huxleys, Darwin, Evolution, UNESCO":
This is an excellent high-level snippet, emphasizing the role of education in controlling a society. Because of poor education, most people have no idea of the ideological relationship between Hegel, Darwin and Marx, and thus also Lenin, Hitler, and other modern socialists. They have no idea of the connections between Huxley and Dewey, nor of their relationships to world financial icons, like the Rockefellers, nor of their financial support of Dewey's "Education Revolution" of the early 20th century, nor their consequent formation of the League of Nations, and later the United Nations. None of this is conspiracy theory, this is all open and celebrated history of philosophy and education.
What people fail to realize is that the Classical world, under the tutelage of Classical pedagogics, was a gift of Martin Luther to Western Civilization. Understanding that his Reformation was a Doctrinal Reformation, he knew that the only way the people could hold on to precious Scripture doctrine was if they had the education to do so. The people needed a system of universal education, and the Church was not organized or financially well-endowed enough to do it. The State had to do it. He tasked Melanchthon (Europe's pre-eminent Humanist at the time, second to Erasmus) and Johann Sturm (Europe's pre-eminent pedagogist at the time), with creating an education system that would equip the people to hold on to pure doctrine. Meanwhile, Luther shopped the idea around with the princes, emphasizing the benefit of an educated society to the State. They bought it, and the world was given the finest and most rigorous education system known in the West, even by today's standards. As a result, Europe saw unprecedented economic advancement and social mobility, and with it, the growth of individual liberty. The education system Luther gave us was Classical Education. This is the system adopted in America just after the Revolution, as our nation's leadership understood that universal education was vitally important to our success. This is the system that Dewey, with the aid of his globalist/socialist cohorts, overthrew a century ago, the benefits of which are fast disappearing as the generations who sat under such instruction are finally dying off, and their published works being lost and forgotten.
But there is hope. Classical Education is returning -- strong among the Reformed, and growing among Lutherans. Check out the Consortium of Classical and Lutheran Education. This is the direction Lutheran education must go, if Confessional Lutheranism is to survive at all, and if society is to be equipped with the intellectual horsepower necessary to preserve our liberty.
