Ron Paul's Home Schooling Curriculum Will Turn Your Kid into a Little Ron Paul
Ron Paul's revolution is not yet complete. The two-time presidential candidate has launched a home schooling curriculum which promises to get your elementary school student up-to-speed on the hijacking of the Constitution in no time. Seriously. It promises that.
The curriculum was announced on Sunday in a post from Paul himself.
We are more excited, primarily because of the introductory video. It stars Gary North, research assistant to then-Rep. Paul in 1976, and now Director of Curriculum Development for The Ron Paul Curriculum. Do not adjust your screen; it does indeed bear the aesthetic of a 1960s educational filmstrip, down to North himself. It is not clear whether or not this is meant to be ironic.
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North outlines the four goals that he and Paul agreed upon for this curriculum. The following are direct quotes.
The curriculum was announced on Sunday in a post from Paul himself.
A common feature of authoritarian regimes is the criminalization of alternatives to government-controlled education. Dictators recognize the danger that free thought poses to their rule, and few things promote the thinking of “unapproved” thoughts like an education controlled by parents instead of the state. That is why the National Socialist (Nazi) government of Germany outlawed homeschooling in 1938.Et cetera. The announcement didn't generate a ton of press coverage for some reason. Fox News offered a skeptical assessment, for example.
We are more excited, primarily because of the introductory video. It stars Gary North, research assistant to then-Rep. Paul in 1976, and now Director of Curriculum Development for The Ron Paul Curriculum. Do not adjust your screen; it does indeed bear the aesthetic of a 1960s educational filmstrip, down to North himself. It is not clear whether or not this is meant to be ironic.
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North outlines the four goals that he and Paul agreed upon for this curriculum. The following are direct quotes.
- It should teach the Biblical principle of self-government and personal responsibility, which is also the foundation of the free market economy.
- It should be based on a detailed study of the history of liberty as well as liberty's rivals, in Western