THE IDEAL:"...To assure each one the facility of perfecting his skill.....Those talents with which Nature has endowed him; and thereby to establish among all citizens an actual equality, thus rendering real the political equality recognized by the law. This should be the first aim of any national education...an obligation of justice." (Condorcet, 1792)

THE REALITY: "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't let our people have guns. Why should we let them have ideas?" (Joseph Stalin)

PUBLIC EDUCATION

"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing Government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it." (Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address (4 March 1861))

The Conundrum and the Clue

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"From the time of the white man's arrival, the Indian formed new tastes...but not the means of satisfying them...he grew dependent upon the Europeans, and became their lackey" (deBeaumont, 1835)

One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside all people. He said, "My son, the battle is between two 'wolves' inside us all. One is Evil. It is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego. The other is Good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith." The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather, "Which wolf wins?" The old Cherokee simply replied, "The one you feed."

A STRATEGY of GENOCIDE and the DESTRUCTION of a CIVILIZATION: The American Paradigm for Democracy and Freedom

Trail of Tears

The creation of a Jewish State in the Middle East was a colossal foreign policy blunder!!!; not in the interests of the United States, and needs to be reversed.

"Tyranny in Democratic Republics...ignores the body and goes straight for the soul (spirit). (It tells the citizen)...You are free not to think (and speak) as I do...But...you shall be as a stranger among us." "...literary genius cannot exist without freedom of spirit, and freedom of spirit does not exist in America." (de Tocqueville, 1835)

Education

"Accurate reckoning --- the entrance into the knowledge of all existing things and all obscure secrets." (Ahmes the Scribe, 17th Century B.C.); "A patient pursuit of facts, and cautious combination and comparison of them, is the drudgery to which man is subjected by his Maker, if he wishes to attain sure knowledge." (Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, 1781-1782)

"Let reason be opposed to reason, and argument to argument"..for.."Nature has given to man no other means of sifting out the truth, either in religion, law, or politics"...and to those advocating opinions contrary to the public good..."let them stand undisturbed, as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated, where reason is left free to combat it." (John Milton, 1644; Thomas Jefferson, 1792 and 1801)

"...the enemy of the human race, finds his most powerful weapon in the ignorance of men..(thus)..the education of children in one of the primary interests of the state...." (Conneticut Code, 1650). "....because the spirit of institutions remains the same, while everything changes around them; and because bad students become themselves bad teachers who, in turn, make their pupils teachers who resemble them, there has been established a sort of perpetuity of ignorance, which is consecrated by old institutions..." (Diderot, 1775-1776)

Science

"Evil exists in the world not to create despair but activity. We are not patiently to submit to it, but to exert ourselves to avoid it. It is not only the interest but the duty of every individual to use his utmost efforts to remove evil from himself and from as large a circle as he can influence, and the more he exercises himself in this duty, the more wisely he directs his efforts, and the more successful these efforts are, the more he will probably improve and exalt his own mind and the more completely does he appear to fulfil the will of his Creator." (Thomas Malthus: 1798)
Rosalind Franklin

Politics

"....The power to tax involves the power to destroy..." John Marshall, Cheif Justice of the United States. McCulloch v. Maryland, 17 U.S. (4 Wheaton) 316 (1819).
John Marshall, Chief Justice of the United States

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GARLIC

About garlic???......a very healthy herb to include in your diet. The problem one encounters, however, is that your family, friends, associates, and people in general, with whom you come in contact, might not quite understand this use of garlic. Notwithstanding, if you are not using this delicious/healthy herb in your diet...consider it.