Teaching students to praise soldiers

It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry. Albert Einstein

A war lover sent out the email appended below where one government employee, a school teacher, said, "You didn't earn the right to sit at these desks. These heroes did it for you. They placed the desks here for you. Now, it's up to you to sit in them. It is your responsibility to learn, to be good students, to be good citizens. They paid the price so that you could have the freedom to get an education. Don't ever forget it."

How does she know all veterans were and are heroes? One government employee is lauding other government employees in another state worship ceremony.

I disagree wholeheartedly with the teacher's assessment. People are born with a right to learn, whether it is in a government school or under a tree in the wilderness. No soldier is necessary.

As far as the teacher thinking the soldiers protected the rights of students to learn is also far fetched. Who did the soldiers protect the students from? No one has invaded the United States since the War of 1812, and that was only after we invaded the British territory in Canada. Santa Anna invaded Texas, not the U.S. The Japanese invaded the Philippines, a U. S. Territory that we invaded and captured from the Spanish, who invaded and captured it from the natives. The Confederate States of America invaded the United States after the United States refused to allow the CSA the same independence the U.S. wanted from England in 1776.

The United States is so powerful it invades countries, it does not get invaded.

The soldiers cannot protect the students from the Department of Education.

What protects the students' right to learn is the United States Constitution. The constitution is supposed to protect us from government and government soldiers. The constitution has failed to protect millions of children from the brainwashing that goes on in the government schools.

The Japanese soldiers forced the Japanese people to praise and worship the Emperor as if he was God. The Japanese people lauded the same soldiers who took away the people's freedom. The soldiers of Pol Pot, Stalin, Mao, and Hitler were praised by the people, as those same soldiers kept the people enslaved. The human mind does not always calculate correctly. I wonder if the citizens of Myanmar think their soldiers are protecting their freedoms?

On another post I pointed out that people who "serve" their country expect gratitude and adulation. This stunt is a perfect example of what one expects for their "service".

Still people; soldiers, teachers, firefighters, cops, legislatures, (all government employees) are always on a mission to hype their importance. They never cease to remind us how important they are, and how we should support and submit to them. The teacher exhorts her students to be good citizens, whatever that means. I suspect it means be good worker ants and support the State.

The teacher failed to give credit where credit is due. The credit for the students' desk and the teacher's salary comes from private businesses that hires people and creates a tax base. It is private productivity that provides the desks. The only organization that ignores producers, except to vilify them, and recognizes non producers, to reward them, is the State.

I believe I have suffered more harm in my life by believing lies than doubting truths.

Bilbo Baggins
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http://www.snopes.com/glurge/nodesks.aspBack in September of 2005, on the first day of school, Martha Cothren, a social studies school teacher at Robinson High School in Little Rock, did something not to be forgotten. On the first day of school, with the permission of the school superintendent, the principal and the building supervisor, she removed all of the desks out of her classroom.

When the first period kids entered the room they discovered that there were no desks.

Looking around, confused, they asked, "Ms. Cothren, where're our desks?" She replied, "You can't have a desk until you tell me what you have done to earn the right to sit at a desk."

They thought, "Well, maybe it's our grades."

"No," she said.

"Maybe it's our behavior."

She told them, "No, it's not even your behavior."

And so, they came and went, the first period, second period, third period.Still no desks in the classroom. By early afternoon television news crews had started gathering in Ms. Cothren's classroom to report about this crazy teacher who had taken all the desks out of her room.

The final period of the day came and as the puzzled students found seats on the floor of the desk less classroom, Martha Cothren said, "Through out the day no one has been able to tell me just what he/she has done to earn the right to sit at the desks that are ordinarily found in this classroom. Now I am going to tell you."

At this point, Martha Cothren went over to the door of her classroom and opened it. Twenty-seven (27) U.S. Veterans, all in uniforms, walked into that classroom, each one carrying a school desk. The Vets began placing the school desks in rows, and then they would walk over and stand alongside the wall.

By the time the last soldier had set the final desk in place those kids started to understand, perhaps for the first time in their lives, just how the right to sit at those desks had been earned.

Martha said, "You didn't earn the right to sit at these desks. These heroes did it for you. They placed the desks here for you. Now, it's up to you to sit in them. It is your responsibility to learn, to be good students, to be good citizens. They paid the price so that you could have the freedom to get an education. Don't ever forget it."

This is a true story....

If you can read this - thank a teacher!

If you can read it in English - thank a soldier!