[...]... ending there The old phrase was The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.” There was another phrase: “Give me control over the child for the first seven years, and I will make the man.” This is often attributed to Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Jesuit Order in the mid-sixteenth century It is sometimes attributed to other Jesuit leaders Whoever said it, the idea is clear: the person who shapes the. .. from the top down The centralization of public education has gone on for over a century The consolidation of school districts, the expansion of the school bus system, and the expansion of state and federal funding in local school districts have all combined to remove parental influence in the day-to-day affairs of the schools Parental authority may be given lip service by the bureaucracy, and the PTA... politics, if it teaches the principle of the autonomous sovereignty of the state, then it undermines the goals of the parents with respect to their children In other words, the educational program is schizophrenic Its content teaches a worldview that is inconsistent with the worldview held by the parents and the very structure of the curriculum itself The student must become well versed in the principles of... taught by parents, but not over the last 180 years This is why the revolution must begin in the family It then extends beyond the family It begins with the education of the children, and then extends beyond the narrow confines of the school Simply put: there can be no revolution without a revolution in education Any attempt to conduct a revolution apart from educational reform is an exercise in futility... in the process of educating their children that they must begin to remove themselves from that process They must show their children the basics of education, and then turn over to them, once they are old enough, the responsibilities of mastering a basic curriculum Considering children too young to be tasked with such a responsibility is to underestimate them The curriculum can and should reflect the. .. years, to the dorm room Parents have to pay a great deal of money to the university for the privilege of turning their children over to people who probably do not share their view of the way the world works, let alone the way the world ought to work The parents (or students) are saddled with severe economic responsibility, and at the same time, they surrender direct authority, or rather, they delegate... for their children, they must become responsible for selecting the right curriculum The curriculum must guide the students both directly and indirectly It must show the students they are capable of advancing in the program without parental nagging Parents and student must interact with each other, thereby providing mutual support The content of the curriculum must be consistent with the structure of the. .. are the values they want their children to adopt Parents have an idea about the way the world works They have ideas about what constitutes success and failure in life They want to transmit these ideas to their children, as well as their own basic moral values Finally, they want to give their children a head start in life They want their children to be successful, and this requires that the children be... on the table But, in the long run, very few people can leave a major legacy based on what they do for a living However, if they concentrate on some area of service to others in which they are important contributors in the broadest sense, they will be better able to make judgments about what they should do for a living They should view their occupations in terms of their vocations They should view their... nineteenth century In the second half of the twentieth century, there was an equally self-conscious movement, generally coming from evangelical Protestants, to remove their children from tax-supported schools The goal is the same in both cases: to maintain parental control over the structure and content of education Parents want their values inculcated in their children They recognize that the way to gain . begin in the family. It then extends beyond the family. It begins with the education of the children, and then extends beyond the narrow confines of the school. Simply put: there can be no revolution. by the state. Parents send their children to tax-funded schools because they see no cost-effective alternatives. In this book, I will show that there are cost-effective alternatives. One of them. politics, if it teaches the principle of the autonomous sovereignty of the state, then it undermines the goals of the parents with respect to their children. In other words, the educational program