Read in the IHT that a family from Germany has been given asylum in the USA, because the German authorities do not allow children to be taught at home. The Germans have a well developed public education system, designed to educate, as opposed to Christianity (sorry did I not mention that the German family were Christians?) which shuts down thought, by filling minds with fairy stories about special friends.
In Germany, he said, home-schoolers are seen as “fundamentalist
religious nuts who don’t want their children to get to know what is going on in
the world, who want to protect them from everything.”
“In fact,” he said,
sitting on his sofa as his three older children wrote in workbooks at the dining
table, “I want my children to learn the truth and to learn about what’s going on
in the world so that they can deal with it.” (Mr. Romeike (pronounced
ro-MY-kuh - the father)
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/01/us/01homeschool.html?scp=10&sq=germany%20christian&st=cse
“In fact,” he said, sitting on his sofa as his three older children wrote in workbooks at the dining table, “I want my children to learn the truth and to learn about what’s going on in the world so that they can deal with it.” ...
...and the father sought ayslum in the US, the land where the font of knowledge is fed from a firmly held belief that my grand daddy walked with dinosaurs.
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