someone without his knowledge, consent, or understanding, then the contract cannot legitimately be enforced against him.
They have failed to inform the students that their Social Security numbers, obtained for them when they were legally incompetent babies, represent such contracts. • They have failed to teach the students that when a so-called obligation is unilaterally imposed, without the voluntary and informed agreement of the person upon whom it is imposed, then the so-called obligation is void from its inception, and is of no legal merit or effect. • They have taught the students that when somebody needs something then he automatically deserves it and, furthermore, he deserves to have somebody else provide it for him. • They have failed to teach the students the definition of money, or the consequences of interest-bearing transactions and fractional reserve banking. • They have failed to teach the students that endless economic growth is unsustainable but, instead, have told the students that an economy must continuously grow, or it will fail. • They have failed to teach the students that the socioeconomic system of the entire planet is a Ponzi scheme, and cannot be sustained. • They have failed to teach the students that human overpopulation is the cause of the destruction of the planetary ecosystem. • They have told the students that it’s good for the U.S. government to impose its political theories, its economic systems, its social ideologies, and its religious dogmas onto the peoples of other countries.
I believe that the schools have become tools of government, and are being used to establish an unhealthy reverence toward
government. However, replacing the divine right of kings with the
divine right of democracy merely transfers the divine right from
one form of government to another. Given the absolute regulation
of the schools, by government, such a result seems inevitable.
Consider that all schools, even private schools and home schools,
are subject to one form or another of regulation, either directly or indirectly. All teachers are subject to licensing requirements of one kind or another. Everything that’s associated with education is licensed. The power to license is the power to control.
I believe that we need to terminate that power to control.
The separation of church and state is a good idea but it becomes pointless if a government acquires the sanctified status of a religion. I suggest that, in addition to the separation
of church and state, we need a separation of school and state.
The schools should be completely outside of the purview of government.
Attendance at any school should always be voluntary. Parents who don’t like a particular school should always have the option of sending their students to a different school, or of not sending them to any school at all. There are other ways to provide an education.
Determining the nature of education might rest with the schools themselves, with the parents, or maybe even with the students. Whatever the
case, it should never be determined by, and for the benefit of, the government.
 Additional Reading • Essays About Liberty, Sovereignty, and the Doctrine of Social Contract, available in Pharos http://pharos.org.uk/Social_Contract/Social_Contract.html • Essays About Money, Taxes, and Corporations, available in Pharos http://pharos.org.uk/Money_Taxes_Corporations/Money_Taxes_Corps.html • The Supreme Flaw of the Land Essays, available in Pharos http://pharos.org.uk/Flaw_of_the_Land_Essays/Flaw_Essays.html Grandma’s Back Stairs As told to me by Poppa.
My father grew up during the Great Depression, and he had a few stories to tell. Here’s one of them.
My grandfather had a job, during the Great Depression, so they had food in the house. Poppa said
that it was a frequent occurrence for some hungry man who’d been
riding the rails to knock on the back door and ask for food.
He said that my grandmother always gave each such man a plate with
meat, potatoes, some kind of vegetables, a glass of milk, and a saucer with a piece of pie.
Poppa told me that she never felt threatened by the men who knocked on her back door. They were always courteous, ate outside and, when they were finished, they left the plates, the glass, and the utensils neatly stacked on the stairs. He said that, as far as he was aware, not a one of them ever went away hungry, from Grandma’s back stairs. 
Stray Thoughts Sam Aurelius Milam
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