Opposing view on education: Teach founding principles
By Don McLeroy
For a free society, history is everything. Thus, the greatest problem facing America today is that we have forgotten what it means to be an American.
On July 4, 1776, Thomas Jefferson charted the course for a new nation: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights."Abraham Lincoln declared that we were "a new nation, conceived in Liberty" and "the last best hope of earth." Ronald Reaganobserved: "Freedom and the dignity of the individual have been more available and assured here than any other place on earth."
The theme is freedom. These men understood America and the principles upon which she stood: self-evident truths; liberty, with its twin corollaries of limited government and individual responsibility; the embrace of Judeo-Christian values; and a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence.
The Texas school board is currently adopting changes to the curriculum standards to ensure these principles