Comments on: Teaching Children To Be Good Little Socialists http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/02/27/teaching-children-to-be-good-little-socialists/ Life. Liberty. Property. Defending individual freedom and liberty, one post at a time. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:11:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: BoilingFrog.com » Blog Archive » Seattle School Curriculum: Reading, Writing, and Ripping Up Private Property Rights http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/02/27/teaching-children-to-be-good-little-socialists/#comment-14553 BoilingFrog.com » Blog Archive » Seattle School Curriculum: Reading, Writing, and Ripping Up Private Property Rights Sat, 03 Mar 2007 00:27:06 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/02/27/teaching-children-to-be-good-little-socialists/#comment-14553 [...] country’s next generation of young frog boilers will come from, you can rest easy. Apparently their indoctrination is coming along just fine up in the Pacific Norwest.According to an article in the winter issue of “Rethinking [...] [...] country’s next generation of young frog boilers will come from, you can rest easy. Apparently their indoctrination is coming along just fine up in the Pacific Norwest.According to an article in the winter issue of “Rethinking [...]

]]> By: TerryP http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/02/27/teaching-children-to-be-good-little-socialists/#comment-14400 TerryP Thu, 01 Mar 2007 16:35:50 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/02/27/teaching-children-to-be-good-little-socialists/#comment-14400 I think it would be funny if the children went to the teachers house and just camped out in the living room watching TV & playing video games and then went to the kitchen and ate the food and then at night went into the bedroom and slept on the bed. Do this day after day until the teacher asks them to leave because it is their house and then the child could ask the teacher but you said "all structures are public structures" and "a house is good because it is a community house" and " we should have equal houses. They should be standard sizes". Then the child could say, well the house I have been living in is a lot smaller then this one and it is just not as nice as this one so I decided to move into this house instead, since you said all structures are public and all homes are community homes. You can go move into the house I was living in. I doubt if my parents will mind because they will be coming over to this house tonight to live as well. I think it would be funny if the children went to the teachers house and just camped out in the living room watching TV & playing video games and then went to the kitchen and ate the food and then at night went into the bedroom and slept on the bed. Do this day after day until the teacher asks them to leave because it is their house and then the child could ask the teacher but you said “all structures are public structures” and “a house is good because it is a community house” and ” we should have equal houses. They should be standard sizes”. Then the child could say, well the house I have been living in is a lot smaller then this one and it is just not as nice as this one so I decided to move into this house instead, since you said all structures are public and all homes are community homes. You can go move into the house I was living in. I doubt if my parents will mind because they will be coming over to this house tonight to live as well.

]]> By: Doug Mataconis http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/02/27/teaching-children-to-be-good-little-socialists/#comment-14292 Doug Mataconis Wed, 28 Feb 2007 21:16:33 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/02/27/teaching-children-to-be-good-little-socialists/#comment-14292 Adam, <em>there is a significant religious left population (think Catholic and Episcopal churches, for example) and so it isn’t as unlikely as it might seem that these sorts of teachings would be found in a religious private school.</em> Which is ironic considering that one can find the roots of classical liberalism in the Schoalstics, who were a bunch of Catholic Monks in Spain during the Enlightenment who wrote like Adam Smith before it was cool. Adam,

there is a significant religious left population (think Catholic and Episcopal churches, for example) and so it isn’t as unlikely as it might seem that these sorts of teachings would be found in a religious private school.

Which is ironic considering that one can find the roots of classical liberalism in the Schoalstics, who were a bunch of Catholic Monks in Spain during the Enlightenment who wrote like Adam Smith before it was cool.

]]> By: Doug Mataconis http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/02/27/teaching-children-to-be-good-little-socialists/#comment-14291 Doug Mataconis Wed, 28 Feb 2007 21:14:52 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/02/27/teaching-children-to-be-good-little-socialists/#comment-14291 Brad, I agree with you completely, but I think it's pretty clear that these teachers are preparing kids <strong>for a world they would like to see exist.</strong> Brad,

I agree with you completely, but I think it’s pretty clear that these teachers are preparing kids for a world they would like to see exist.

]]> By: The Coach's Wife http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/02/27/teaching-children-to-be-good-little-socialists/#comment-14277 The Coach's Wife Wed, 28 Feb 2007 19:27:09 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/02/27/teaching-children-to-be-good-little-socialists/#comment-14277 Why on earth do these Marxists think they can reinvent what already failed abismally during the Cold War? People absolutely do not want to share what they have with others. I swear communism was invented by people who wanted to eliminate the green-eyed monster of envy. Life is not fair. It is its own series of inequalities. And if we fail to teach our children how to appropriately overcome inequality through perserverence then we are doomed. Why on earth do these Marxists think they can reinvent what already failed abismally during the Cold War? People absolutely do not want to share what they have with others. I swear communism was invented by people who wanted to eliminate the green-eyed monster of envy.

Life is not fair. It is its own series of inequalities. And if we fail to teach our children how to appropriately overcome inequality through perserverence then we are doomed.

]]> By: Brad Warbiany http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/02/27/teaching-children-to-be-good-little-socialists/#comment-14272 Brad Warbiany Wed, 28 Feb 2007 19:03:15 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/02/27/teaching-children-to-be-good-little-socialists/#comment-14272 Doug, They're not preparing kids for any world that can exist. We've learned that from every society in history which has tried to abolish private property. Even when it's the Soviets, who had 80 years to inculcate their values into children in school, it didn't work. The ownership of property is natural for humans. I don't think, even with training, that it can be broken sufficiently to create the world they envision. Yet they keep trying. Doug,

They’re not preparing kids for any world that can exist. We’ve learned that from every society in history which has tried to abolish private property. Even when it’s the Soviets, who had 80 years to inculcate their values into children in school, it didn’t work.

The ownership of property is natural for humans. I don’t think, even with training, that it can be broken sufficiently to create the world they envision. Yet they keep trying.

]]> By: Adam Selene http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/02/27/teaching-children-to-be-good-little-socialists/#comment-14253 Adam Selene Wed, 28 Feb 2007 16:57:19 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/02/27/teaching-children-to-be-good-little-socialists/#comment-14253 Dana: <i>Why would you think they would be religious?</i> I don't think that it's so much an assumption around whether the school would be religious because of what they are teaching as it is that the majority of private schools are religious in nature. Aside from that, there is a significant religious left population (think Catholic and Episcopal churches, for example) and so it isn't as unlikely as it might seem that these sorts of teachings would be found in a religious private school. Dana: Why would you think they would be religious?

I don’t think that it’s so much an assumption around whether the school would be religious because of what they are teaching as it is that the majority of private schools are religious in nature.

Aside from that, there is a significant religious left population (think Catholic and Episcopal churches, for example) and so it isn’t as unlikely as it might seem that these sorts of teachings would be found in a religious private school.

]]> By: Doug Mataconis http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/02/27/teaching-children-to-be-good-little-socialists/#comment-14247 Doug Mataconis Wed, 28 Feb 2007 16:37:01 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/02/27/teaching-children-to-be-good-little-socialists/#comment-14247 Brad, This scary thing is that these teachers *are* preparing the kids for the world, it's just not a world that you, I, or anyone else who believes in liberty would ever want to live in. Brad,

This scary thing is that these teachers *are* preparing the kids for the world, it’s just not a world that you, I, or anyone else who believes in liberty would ever want to live in.

]]> By: Brad Warbiany http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/02/27/teaching-children-to-be-good-little-socialists/#comment-14238 Brad Warbiany Wed, 28 Feb 2007 15:37:54 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/02/27/teaching-children-to-be-good-little-socialists/#comment-14238 It sure will be a rough day when these kids have to get into the real world. Perhaps, though, they're being trained to be government employees. If so, they can continue their delusions indefinitely. It sure will be a rough day when these kids have to get into the real world.

Perhaps, though, they’re being trained to be government employees. If so, they can continue their delusions indefinitely.

]]> By: Lucy Stern http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/02/27/teaching-children-to-be-good-little-socialists/#comment-14226 Lucy Stern Wed, 28 Feb 2007 12:46:27 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/02/27/teaching-children-to-be-good-little-socialists/#comment-14226 Left coast teachings...Look how what is happening to Arnold..... Left coast teachings…Look how what is happening to Arnold…..

]]> By: Dana http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/02/27/teaching-children-to-be-good-little-socialists/#comment-14174 Dana Wed, 28 Feb 2007 07:46:27 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/02/27/teaching-children-to-be-good-little-socialists/#comment-14174 Why would you think they would be religious? I don't know that much about it, but the approach they use (Reggio Emilia) stems from a socialist notion of the child: "Reggio Emilia's tradition of community support for families with young children expands on Italy's cultural view of children as the collective responsibility of the state." That's from Wikepedia...sorry but I don't have time to do anything more thorough. At least that much seems in line with what little I do know. Why would you think they would be religious? I don’t know that much about it, but the approach they use (Reggio Emilia) stems from a socialist notion of the child:

“Reggio Emilia’s tradition of community support for families with young children expands on Italy’s cultural view of children as the collective responsibility of the state.”

That’s from Wikepedia…sorry but I don’t have time to do anything more thorough. At least that much seems in line with what little I do know.

]]> By: Ryan http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/02/27/teaching-children-to-be-good-little-socialists/#comment-14134 Ryan Wed, 28 Feb 2007 04:53:15 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/02/27/teaching-children-to-be-good-little-socialists/#comment-14134 Well, I guess every private institution is entitled to profess what it believs... this whole situation is pathetic though. Well, I guess every private institution is entitled to profess what it believs… this whole situation is pathetic though.

]]> By: LoganFerree http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/02/27/teaching-children-to-be-good-little-socialists/#comment-14090 LoganFerree Wed, 28 Feb 2007 02:07:23 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/02/27/teaching-children-to-be-good-little-socialists/#comment-14090 What is the background of this private school? Checking over their website, they don't seem to be religious. What is the background of this private school? Checking over their website, they don’t seem to be religious.

]]> By: T F Stern http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/02/27/teaching-children-to-be-good-little-socialists/#comment-14066 T F Stern Wed, 28 Feb 2007 00:52:59 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/02/27/teaching-children-to-be-good-little-socialists/#comment-14066 The song writer/perfomer, Harry Chapin, wrote a song about a child's imagination being destroyed by a teacher intent on making that child conform. "Flowers are Red and Green Leaves are Green, there's no need to see flowers any other way than the way they always have been seen." But,as the song hopes to point out, "There are so many colors in the rainbow, so many colors in the morning sun, so many colors in the flowers, so let's use everyone." The song writer/perfomer, Harry Chapin, wrote a song about a child’s imagination being destroyed by a teacher intent on making that child conform.
“Flowers are Red and Green Leaves are Green, there’s no need to see flowers any other way than the way they always have been seen.” But,as the song hopes to point out, “There are so many colors in the rainbow, so many colors in the morning sun, so many colors in the flowers, so let’s use everyone.”

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