Battle for the American Mind: Uprooting a Century of Miseducation

Name: Battle for the American Mind: Uprooting a Century of Miseducation
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FOX News host Pete Hegseth is back with what he says is his most important book yet: A revolutionary road map to saving our children from leftist indoctrination.

Behind a smokescreen of “preparing students for the new industrial economy,” early progressives had political control in mind. America’s original schools didn’t just make kids memorize facts or learn skills; they taught them to think freely and arrive at wisdom. They assigned the classics, inspired love of God and country, and raised future citizens that changed the world forever.

Today, after 16,000 hours of K-12 indoctrination, our kids come out of government schools hating America. They roll their eyes at religion and disdain our history. We spend more money on education than ever, but kids can barely read and write—let alone reason with discernment. Western culture is on the ropes. Kids are bored and aimless, flailing for purpose in a system that says racial and gender identity is everything.

Battle for the American Mind is the untold story of the Progressive plan to neutralize the basis of our Republic – by removing the one ingredient that had sustained Western Civilization for thousands of years. Pete Hegseth and David Goodwin explain why, no matter what political skirmishes conservatives win, progressives are winning the war—and control the “supply lines” of future citizens. Reversing this reality will require parents to radically reorient their children’s education; even most homeschooling and Christian schooling are infused with progressive assumptions. We need to recover a lost philosophy of education – grounded in virtue and excellence – that can arm future generations to fight for freedom. It’s called classical Christian education. Never heard of it? You’re not alone.

Battle for the American Mind is more than a book; it’s a field guide for remaking school in the United States. We’ve ceded our kids’ minds to the left for far too long—this book gives patriotic parents the ammunition to join an insurgency that gives America a fighting chance.

Whether you're a conservative looking to push back against the progressive agenda or simply someone who cares about the education of our children, this book is for you.

G.L. Addison

Excellent read very informative and speaks the truth about our educational system.

Reviewed in the United States on February 27, 2024

Excellent read very informative and speaks the truth about our educational system. Co-authored and is very easy to read and comprehend. Doesn't go down rabbit holes but explains the degradation of our educational system in easy to understand language.

Kenneth Timmerman

A surprising and important book

Reviewed in the United States on October 3, 2022

Pete Hegseth has undergone an "awakening" that has changed his entire outlook on education, our national identity (paideia), and how to save it.

The Battle for the American Mind is today the one battle that Americans must join, he believes, or we will lose our country. He argues that progressives have gained control over what Lenin called the "commanding heights," that is, K-12 education, gradually taking God and the Christian ethos out of public schools and replacing them with man-made ideas and values.

The Frankfurt School Communists who took over Columbia and other U.S. teachers colleges in the 1930s understood that politics is downstream from culture, and initiated a long-term struggle to hijack our culture by first hijacking the education of our children.

Today, ninety years later, they have succeeded way beyond their wildest dreams.

Pete makes an impassioned argument for a return to classical Christian education "to cultivate Christian wisdom and virtue in students." (p194).

British moralist GK Chesterton (oft quoted in this book) put it bluntly: "education is not a subject and does not deal in subjects. It is instead the transfer of a way of life." (p215)

And that is precisely why the Left has focused so much of its energy on taking over our schools. "Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted," Lenin said.

Pete's despair over his own parenting grew as he came to understand the depth of the Left's control over the schools. "We love our children. We teach them forgiveness... and then we ship them off to Democrat camp... every day. We are willfully blind to the indoctrination of our kids because it is easier, cheaper, and more comfortable to excuse it away." (p241). Mea maxima culpa.

But Pete also sees light growing around him in the Classical Christian education movement, and suggests that parents go to classicalchristian.org to find a school near them. (Note: not all are listed on that website, including our own Lindesfarne Hall here on Amelia Island, Fl).

If you care about the future of your country and have despaired over what we can do to take it back, read this important book.

Juanita

Easy read

Reviewed in the United States on September 7, 2022

This book is spot on. For fifty years I have been saying that the public education system is a black hole, full of administrators making three times more than is reasonable and abusing tax payers money. At the same time the public education system (PES) treat parents like the enemy while at the same time begging for paper towels, tissues, hand sanitizer, etc. Teachers are told to teach for the test. Debate is discouraged. Disciplined has been abandoned unless the teacher gets mad because her class has been disrupted or something was directed at him/her. Teaching or even allowing critical thinking is considered treasonous. I get 1 to 10 page reports from people with master degrees and doctorate degrees that read like they are written by a sixth grader. Even with spell check multiple misspelled words, very poor grammer,, disorganized and lots of words that say nothing. Actually these reports would be an insult to most sixth graders from 40 years ago. This book takes one through the process of how this happened, the negative results of a century of children being used as lab rats by "educators", and how the trust of parents was abused. This book doesn't leave one feeling hopeless and helpless, in that it offers potential solutions. Great book, easy to read and understand and without question much needed by the general public.

Frances Hicks

VERY INFORMATIVE

Reviewed in the United States on May 24, 2024

SO MUCH INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOUNDING OF OUR SCHOOL SYSTEMS. I RECOMMEND READING THIS BOOK IF YOU HAVE CHILDREN IN SCHOOL. BOOK OF FACTS NOT A BOOK OF ONES OPINION.

Lorene L.

This book will give you a clear understanding of how progressives destroyed education.

Reviewed in the United States on September 15, 2022

It's hard to imagine a time when kids had a genuine classical education. When learning was centered around being virtuous and wise. When learning emphasized thinking for yourself. But that's the way it was 100 years ago, and it has obviously eroded thanks to progressives. I always had a hard time understanding how Marxists took over our education system--until I read this book. Pete takes us right to the beginning of when this started and just how things got worse over the years.

I found myself longing for the education that might have been. Pete said he went to Harvard and Princeton and was never assigned readings of the great classics. And I long for the Socratic method--where students are challenged to make sure they understand what they are saying/thinking (critical thinking/logic). Since we don't have this today, we witness such nonsense as people shouting, "MAGA is a threat to our democracy!" In the past, they wouldn't get away with this. People would ask, "How?" No one asks today, so people just repeat the mantra with no shame about not understanding what they are saying.

I was encouraged to read that hundreds of schools now have a traditional classical education, but there are thousands more to go. Pete provides a great battle plan on how to achieve this--an "insurgency" as he calls it.

This is an excellent and inspiring book and one which everyone should read, even if you don't have kids in school, because saving our country requires saving our schools.

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