Menu Home Politics News Movies, TV & Books Music Heathenry Humor Life Misc “Give Me 4 Years to Teach the Children…” 03/27/2023 by EarthboundValkyrie “Give me four years to teach the children, and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.” So said Russia’s Vladimir Lenin , explaining the importance of taking over the educational system of a country in order to change its entire society. Controlling education, which includes controlling what books students – and in most cases, eventually, people of all age
Adolf Hitler in Germany, Benito Mussolini in Italy, The Russian Communists, Chinese Maoists and the Red Guard, Pol Pot in Cambodia, among others, all made it a priority to control what books were acceptable and what should or shouldn’t be taught in schools. Currently, Vladimir Putin has been tightening his grip on Russian children’s education as part of his efforts against Ukraine. It’s common enough that many authors of dystopian books use the government takeover of education and the banning of books as a
It is against this background that we need to look at the current actions taken by Ron DeSantis in Florida and governors in other Red States to “reform” the education of children in their areas. As I noted in a previous post , their actions are not confined to the borders of their states alone. Textbook publishers want to avoid having to make multiple editions of their books tailored to each state’s curriculum, so they tend to publish books acceptable to the most restrictive states.