Tragically, for the American child, for every American, the second greatest lost and failed American president, after Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., James Earl Carter, Jr. — created in 1979 the U.S. Department of Education, which became law by the U.S. Congress in May of 1980, making it so.
Little known is President Ronald Reagan stating how the U.S. Department of Education should not exist:
America spends the most per pupil in public schools and sits at the very bottom in having educated students for industrialized nations. We spend the most and produce the worst.
Have we been great, or what! Well done, evil in America. You’ve been busy while the so-called “good people” have been asleep and idle.
No more! Enough is enough. Time to wake up and become not only aware but active while there remains the opportunity to restore, refresh, renew this almost dead in its ways nation and people.
The U.S. Department of Education was put forward by a man who deceived many. He was not “the humble peanut farmer, born again Christian,” so many believed. How can I make such a statement? History, my friends. The fruit that was produced by the man. He did the bidding of the globalist elitists. He did the bidding of Islamic jihad and Islamic expansion. He worked against Israel and elevated Yasser Arafat to legitimacy, and the Gazans and those in the West Bank to legitimacy for having their own state, removing land from Israel, land promised and given to them by God Almighty.
He made the Iranian revolution of January 1978 possible, leading to our present. Yes, history matters. What a president did 40, 50 years ago, or failed to do, impacts us today. Due to their weakness, their blindness, their arrogance, their having horrible advisors, their refusing to allow themselves to be advised by God and the Holy Bible. Exerting their will. Vainly imagining they will “be the one!” to bring about peace, and blah, blah, blah — as they push God and the Holy Bible aside. Refusing Its truth and clarity, it’s revealing past, PRESENT, and FUTURE history. Ahh, the vanity of man — especially those who have asceded to positions of power, almost all refusing to acknowledge it is God Who raises up kings and removes them. It was not done of themselves. And the people get the kings, the rulers, the leaders they deserve. Exactly as it always has been. Read the Bible t0 learn this is unfamiliar.
What “Jimmy” Carter did by his actions, by the fruit he produced [and I ain’t talkin’ peanuts from down on the farm in Georgia], reveals the true inner man and his heart. Which was more for the world, more for Islamic terrorists and jihadists, haters of Israel, than in the pursuit of God and a defender of Israel, producing good fruit — because the creation of the U.S. Department of Education has produced nothing but rotten, deadly, wasteful fruit ever since coming into existence.
President Carter made sure the U.S. Department of Education came into being to not only waste money, but to work to eventually attempt to implement a national curriculum founded on leftist ideologies and containing anti-God, anti-Jesus, anti-Bible, anti-Christian, anti-Jew, anti-Israel, pro-Islam, pro-promote racism, pro-Marxism, pro-One World Order.
The U.S. Departmen of Education has never been interested or concerned with the education of America’s children and young people.
Do not be among the greatly deceived and deluded.
Read on…
Ken Pullen, Monday, March 31st, 2025
Educating a nation of intellectual and moral imbeciles
The importance of dismantling of the Department of Education
Sunday, March 30, 2025
Reprinted from The Washington Times
In 1943, C.S. Lewis warned of a day when our country’s educated class would claim that it made sense to “geld the stallion and then bid him be fruitful.” In his seminal work, “The Abolition of Man” he accused the ivory tower of creating “men without chests,” where instead of pursuing the truth, our schools would educate an entire generation of moral and intellectual amputees with no understanding of the good, the true and the beautiful.
He predicted a time when the average graduate could no longer discern the difference between right and wrong or even be able to add, subtract, multiply and divide. That day is here, and this is why President Trump’s dismantling of the Department of Education is the most important thing he has done so far in his second term.
Since the 1970s, the Department of Education has failed our nation’s schools and students. Year after year, we have elevated social engineering and political indoctrination over teaching the basics of reading, writing, arithmetic and personal virtue. Decade after decade, we have promoted students from one grade level to the next, not because of academic achievement but merely because they “participated.” The result is a morally vacuous citizenry that cannot read, write, understand the basics of logic and science, or tell you why it is wrong to force girls to undress in front of boys in the girls’ locker room.
According to the 2024 Nation’s Report Card, fewer than a third of students nationwide were proficient in reading. Only 40% performed math at grade level, with nearly a quarter unable to identify odd numbers or solve a problem using unit conversions. Despite the terrible scores, graduation rates continue to rise. This means we have a generation of young people where we’ve “severed the organ but still demand the function,” a society with no understanding of its social compact, a workforce without the skills to work and an electorate with no clear moral code. We are now a truly crippled nation.
The problem in education is not a lack of money; we’re spending more than ever before. The problem is we have abandoned the good ideas of teaching students how to read, write, count, and know the difference between right and wrong and replaced them with the bad ideas of DEI, CRT, LGBTQIA, BLM, SJW and SEL. These bad ideas are bearing bad consequences as surely as an acorn grows an oak or a hurricane brings a flood.
Why would we expect decades of teaching sexual promiscuity in our schools to result in sexual restraint in our students?
Why are we surprised at the selfishness of our culture when our schools teach self-esteem more effectively than they do mathematics, science and civics?
Why would we possibly think teaching values clarification rather than moral absolutes would produce virtuous people?
Where in the annals of all of human history is there any evidence that the subordination of one person’s right to live to another person’s right to choose ever resulted in the protection of every person’s unalienable right to life?
Why would you think our young people would be able to read and do basic calculations when we have replaced the common sense of phonics and physics with the convoluted mess of Common Core?
This list could go on and on, but the evidence is clear. All we need to do is turn on the nightly news to see the proof. The Department of Education has given us a nation of “men without chests” where our progeny can’t tell us why men are not women and why 2+2=4 is not the product of “White privilege.”
Education will always lead somewhere: either toward the liberty found in that which is right and just and real or toward the slavery and ugly hell created by our own arrogance and dysfunction.
More from C.S. Lewis: “All [our] lifelong [we] are slowly turning … either into a heavenly creature or into a hellish creature: either into [one who] is in harmony with God … or one that is in a state of war and hatred with [Him]. … To be the one kind of creature is heaven … To be the other means madness.”
We should all be thanking Mr. Trump for demolishing the madness of the Department of Education. Maybe now our schools can get back to teaching our students how to read, write and count and how to pursue the truth rather than rail against it.
• Everett Piper (dreverettpiper.com, @dreverettpiper), a columnist for The Washington Times, is a former university president and radio host. He is the author of “Not a Day Care: The Devastating Consequences of Abandoning Truth” (Regnery). He can be reached at epiper@dreverettpiper.com.
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