Who can and will determine the beliefs, values, attitudes and convictions of our children?
That is the problem stated at its most basic level. It is not a question of whether children and people develop and possess beliefs and attitudes as described by modern behaviorism – they do, in part anyway. It is not a question of whether past beliefs and attitudes have often acted to promote intolerance, injustice, hatred and oppression – they have. It is not a question of whether the form and details of society at any time is basically dependent upon the beliefs, attitudes and convictions of its members – it is. The question is who gave modern public education and the government the right to decide what these beliefs, attitudes, values and convictions should and will be? It is completely true that the sum total of the beliefs, attitudes, convictions and values of any group of people determines the general and specific form the society takes – the level of decency, morality, responsibility, and happiness, but also criminality, immorality, injustice, decadence and decay. Its not that
