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Rose Ingalls Wilder (daughter of Laura Ingalls) wrote about the horrible decision to create the Dept of Education. She said it was copied from the German educational system. She said the Americans made a bad decision to follow after the Germans.

She said it ruined the children's moral to study because before the Dept of Education made education compulsory the child felt it was their own decision to go to school and they worked hard. However when it became compulsory the children didn't want to go because they were being forced. The teachers made the lessons easier since the children were being made to go and they weren't as excited to learn. Everything changed for the worse and Rose was greatly opposed to the change.

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In 1979, the Department of Education was formed. By 1980, The Gulag Archipelago was off the required reading list of most schools in North America. The Bolsheviks liquidated at least 20 million in Russia and elsewhere in Europe before WW II even started.

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I just came back to edit my post after thinking about it and see your note. I wrote it while at a class in a hurry and didn't write a couple things correctly. Her name was Rose Wilder Lane. And it was state compulsorily education she was against not the actual Dept of Education but she would definitely have been against that as well.

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I’m not sure how much the Americans actually copied the German model. When Europe destroyed Germany after WWI (atrocities to horrific to mention), Germany (who kicked out the banksters) and their educational system resulted in a level of innovation in Germany that was unrivaled in Europe. That’s the reason England and France decided they had to destroy Germany. But that’s another story. While much of our educational system may have been modeled on what Germany did, you don’t have to change very much to get entirely different results. The problem has more to do with certain people who left Germany (Communists) who set up shop at Columbia University. That was a disease that spread all over.

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