Education, Parents, State

In the build-up to the election for Governor of Virginia, not that I saw it in anything but passing, the issue of education was apparently a major issue with the Democrat, Terry McAuliffe I think, declaring that parents had no say whatsoever in the nature of their children’s education. This presumably in relation to issues like forces behind schooling using education as a means of indoctrination of children into leftist/progressive/materialist ideologies, and so the hard pushing of things like critical race theory and so on.

Initially it might seem reasonable to say the parents should not be involved in colouring the curriculum, but the issue is actually a very fundamental one. Within what we might call the democratic ideal, the person is sovereign, and while patriotic unity is very much a given, the State is something to be kept in check. If there is a highest principle it is a union of man’s innate sovereignty over himself, and his humility beneath God who endows him with inalienable rights and freedoms - this in the American democratic model. Thus flows the moral principles, rights and wrongs that so on. By man, I obviously include woman but it’s too tedious to keep having to include that point in every sentence structure!

Within progressivism and socialism however, which very much tends to include the soft sounding liberalism, this relationship of man to State is reversed. Within this thinking man is owned by the State, and the US Democrat Party, despite their name, are clearly of this ideology. And so for McAuliffe the parents have no say in the nature of their children’s education. Their connection within this materialism is that they are the biological means by which the children came about, but once they are alive they are owned by the State. And this is what is meant by the parents have no say in their children’s education, because they are the State’s property, not bonded in some much deeper sense to their parents.

It doesn’t take much to see that this is the same issue at stake globally with mask/vaccine mandates, etc. It is an assertion of the primacy and even bodily ownership by the State of the individual, who it attempts to give no choice to but to bow down. Within a realised socialist/progressive system you either surrender and be a cog in the machine, or be crushed by the machine. No internal contradictions to its self-declared perfect system of coercion and obedience are allowed.