Revolution via Education, a review

Reviewed by: T. C. Pinckney                                                                                                             Vol. XXIII, No. 7, August 2010

Samuel Blumenfeld, the author, will be known to many readers, especially those informed about homeschooling. He has written at least ten other books and innumerable articles dealing with education. I particularly enjoyed Is Public Education Necessary? “Revolution” is a collection of Blumenfeld’s articles, 20 in all, varying from four to eighteen pages in length.

In the Preface Blumenfeld writes, “In these essays I have tried to show how our country has been in the throes of an ongoing socialist revolution since the turn of the last century. And it has been engineered by real people with real names who consider themselves to be Americans but who have been doing all in their power to change the form of government given us by our Founding Fathers. The two major underpinnings of a socialist, ungodly, controlled society are public education and the income tax. We shall not be a free people until we get rid of both institutions.”

Blumenfeld is an expert with decades of research. His assertions regarding the purpose, activities, and results of government schools are backed up by numerous quotations by their proponents. The book is an easy read: no multisyllabic jargon, no ethereal theories. Everything in plain English.

You need to read Revolution if:

– You think your local schools are okay.

– You went through public schools (as I did) and think they were, and are, fine (which I don’t).

– You have no background in what the school bureaucrats have as their real objectives. (Hint: it is not to graduate the best academically educated pupils possible.)

– You are aware that public order in the United States is plummeting.

– You have seen statistics indicating U.S. literacy, mathematical knowledge, and other academic subjects are plunging compared to many other countries.

– You sense our country moving increasingly toward adopting international rules and regulations rather than relying on our own.

– You are offended by the continuous attacks and disparagement of Christianity, heterosexual marriage, stay at home moms, and homeschooling.

Here are just two of many pungent quotes I could cite.

“One hundred years have gone by since Dewey set American education on its progressive course. The result is an education system in shambles, a rising national tide of illiteracy and the social misery caused in its wake.” (p. 17)

“The purpose of globalism is to prepare young Americans to accept as inevitable and desirable a world socialist government in which American national sovereignty will be voluntarily surrendered for the greater good of ‘world peace and brotherhood.’ Social studies textbooks have been written to deliberately play down American patriotism and national pride known as ‘ethnocentrism’ in order to prepare young Americans for world citizenship.” (p. 161)

Pastors, you need to read this book so you will be prepared to accurately inform your members.

Parents, you must read this book in order to be mentally and spiritually equipped to raise your children in accord with God’s Word and to protect them from those who would destroy their faith.

Americans, read Revolution via Education so you can help protect the United States our founding fathers gave us.

[Samuel Blumenfeld, Revolution via Education (Chalcedon, Vallecito, CA. 2009) 170 pp.]