Educating Requires Moralizing, Civilizing Let Moses Speak Timeless Words Form The Basis For A Decent And Stable Society.

Schools shortchange students if they fail to tell history’s whole story, fail to declare that truth exists and decadence has consequences.

Weary of mealy mouthed relativism and low-cal curricula? Millions of Americans are.

For long enough, taxpayers have let schools decay and culture rot in the hands of modernists who urge children to “find themselves,” who preach tolerance for every half-witted secular fad but attack with fierce intolerance if community schools try to mention ideals that are true, transcendent, timeless, larger than the self.

Last spring, something snapped. Two boys murdered their classmates. The Colorado school where this occurred had indulged the killers’ increasingly antisocial behavior. After all, the killers were “finding themselves” - and what they found horrified us all.

Now, Americans are fighting back. This month, citizen volunteers installed plaques bearing the Ten Commandments on classroom walls in Kentucky.

Naturally, modernists have taken offense, howling that this is an unconstitutional move to establish a state religion. Oh? And which religion might that be? Judaism? Islam? Christianity? All three revere the 20th chapter of Exodus.

The Ten Commandments also appear on the wall at the U.S. Supreme Court, which lately has struck a better balance between “separation of church and state,” a phrase not found in the U.S. Constitution - and a phrase that is: “Freedom of speech and religion.”

Freedom is essential to any education worth having. Schools falsify history and deprive students of its lessons if they censor the role, the ideas, the literature of religion. Schools decorate their walls with flags, historical paintings, copies of the Constitution, the writings of history’s great figures. The words Moses brought down from Mount Sinai belong among them.

Yes, the Ten Commandments offend people - which is exactly why they have value. No one complies with them fully but all who try have found these wise old words to be the bedrock for a stable life and society. A culture founded on them - ours was - endures. A culture that tries to erase them from history will instead wind up on history’s scrap pile - decadent, then bloodied, then gone.