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Type: Non-fiction<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Category: Federal Education Legislation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Author: Pete Hegseth and David Goodwin<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Pages: 288<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Publisher: Broadside Books<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n List Price (Hardcover): $17.99<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n It\u2019s impossible to maintain a constitutional republic like America\u2019s with a citizenry who can\u2019t think for themselves. Thanks to Progressives’ stranglehold on public education, millions of Americans are bereft of critical thinking skills due to decades of indoctrination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It\u2019s widely believed this insidious indoctrination in public schools dates back to the 1960\u2019s, but as bestselling author and Fox and Friends<\/em> co-host Pete Hegseth and magazine editor David Goodwin detail in their excellent book<\/a><\/strong>, the Progressives\u2019 game plan to control the \u201csupply lines\u201d of future citizens goes back 120 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A central thesis of their brilliant book promoting classical Christian education revolves around a Greek word called \u201cpaideia.\u201d This little-known word has been a linchpin in Progressive plans to hijack education because it involves the \u201crearing, molding and education of children.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n American Progressives knew, like the ancient Greeks, that the best way to control culture was by controlling education<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As the authors point out, whereas the ancient Greeks used paideia to promote godly virtues like wisdom, courage, and justice, Progressives removed the religious context and over time adopted pseudo-virtues based on scientism principles like race, gender<\/strong><\/a>, and oppressor\/oppressed identities<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cHence the term \u2018virtue signaling\u2019 when these are on exhibition. But these \u2018virtues\u2019 are based in cultural Marxism, not Christianity,\u201d the authors write in Chapter 8, Reason and Virtue<\/em>. In other words, Progressivism is not attached to a divine ideal but rather humanism and the pursuit of a godless utopia, or what the authors call the Cultural Marxist Paideia (CMP).<\/p>\n\n\n\n For most of two thousand years Western children were educated in the classical Christian tradition, or Western Christian Paideia (WCP). Children studied history, Latin, Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, math, poetry and logic. Students acquired and cultivated wisdom by studying history and the ancient philosophers as students in classical Christian schools<\/a><\/strong> do today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the 1890\u2019s, Progressives like John Dewey and Horace Mann sought to supplant WCP with a American Progressive Paideia (APP) that would repurpose education as a tool for social manipulation and industrial progress while removing God, Christ and Christianity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “The Progressives realized that true classical Christian education was more powerful than just teaching virtues \u2013 it cultivated a paideia with a foundation in divine Truth. At its very core, it reaches for an ideal higher than human institutions,” the authors write in Chapter 5, The Elitist Roots of Progressivism<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hegseth and Goodwin note that Progressives of that era knew that dropping classical learning practices without replacing them with an inspiring alternative would be unacceptable to the general public. They cleverly substituted patriotic fervor and nationalism in place of God and Christ, thereby enabling schools to become a pliant tool for social reform with a love for America as the backdrop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The authors point out it was Progressives like President Woodrow Wilson who introduced the patriotic holiday Flag Day and a socialist minister named Francis Bellamy who wrote the Pledge of Allegiance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It wasn\u2019t until the Eisenhower administration that the words \u201cunder God\u201d were added to Bellamy\u2019s original pledge<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cOnce the APP had been universally taught in schools, say between 1925 and 1965, its resulting culture dominated for another generation \u2013 until about 2005,\u201d the authors write. \u201cBeginning somewhere between 2000 and 2005, the American Paideia was replaced with the Cultural Marxist Paideia, which obtained its authority from \u2018equity\u2019 vested in individual identity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.deanriffs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Battle-for-the-American-Mind-2.jpg\")
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