Our children are under attack in the classroom day in and day out, yet many parents do not even know the war has begun! When parents do show concern about this danger, about all they hear from educators is denial and ridicule. Despite the denials, consider the evidence that humanism is indeed the predominant philosophy of modern public education. In the Humanist Magazine (Jan/Feb, 1983, p. 26), humanist author John Dunphy says: ... a viable alternative to [Christianity] must be sought. That alternative is humanism. I am convinced that the battle for humankinds future must be waged and won in the public school classroom by teachers who correctly perceive their role as the proselytizers of a new faith: a religion of humanity that recognizes and respects the spark of what theologians call divinity in every human being. These teachers must embody the same selfless dedication as the most rabid fundamentalist preachers, for they will be ministers of another sort, utilizing a classroom instead of a pulpit to convey humanist values in whatever subject they teach, regardless of the educational level ... The classroom must and will become an arena of conflict between the old and the new ... the rotting corpse of Christianity, together with all its adjacent evils and misery, and the new faith of humanism … * The preface to the humanist book Humanist Ethic says: ...a large majority of the educators of America and of the western world are humanist in their outlook. The faculties of American colleges and universities are predominantly humanist, and a majority of the teachers who go out from their studies in the colleges to responsibilities in primary and secondary schools are basically humanist, no matter that many maintain a nominal attachment to church or synagogue for good personal or social or practical reasons. *John Dewey, who is probably the greatest influence in modern education, was an endorser of the first Humanist Manifesto. *At least 33 of 58 original signers of the Secular Humanist Declaration were educators. *Shirley Hufstetler, first secretary of the U.S. Department of Education, was on the board of directors of the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies. truthmagazine/arch.../volume28/GOT028219.html
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