The following article was published in Eagle Forum’s April 2024 report.
The United States, Western civilization, the American church, and the family are all on the verge of destruction, and the most important weapon used to destroy them has remained largely hidden — until now.
In his new book Indoctrinating Our Children to Death: Government Schools’ War on Faith, Family & Freedom — and How to Stop It, author, journalist, and educator Alex Newman explains that this has been the plan from the start.
“The public school system is not broken,” explains Alex Newman. “It is actually working very well, once you understand that the purpose was never to educate. The most amazing part is that we can prove this with primary-source documents.”
Phyllis Schlafly, a supporter of Newman’s first book on education, Crimes of the Educators, which he authored with the late Dr. Samuel Blumenfeld, said, “Alex Newman is a very distinguished intellectual… his book is a must-read; all Eagle Forum leaders are required to read it.”
“Alex Newman offers essential history and analysis in this important new book… No other work I’ve seen has documented the origins or consequences of the education system like this,” said Kirk Cameron of Newman’s new book. “It is a monumental work in the life-or-death effort to rescue our children and one of the strongest cases that could be made for home education.”
“Alex Newman is a warrior for America’s children, claimed Dr. Carol Swain, a former professor of law and political science at Vanderbilt University, and co-chair of Donald Trump’s 1776 Commission. “His outstanding new book does an excellent job of educating Americans about the history of our educational system and how it ended up in such a sorry state. Newman’s book can be a game-changer for K–12 education.”
In the forward to the book, former Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction Hon. Diane Douglas echoes Newman’s view that the system cannot be reformed. That is because it is doing what it was designed to do, Douglas concluded after holding virtually every position within the system, including school board member, school board president, and eventually the top public-education job for the state of Arizona. “The reality is that our government schools are not broken, Douglas stated in the forward. “They are doing exactly what they were designed to do and achieving the ends for which they were originally intended — separating children from God and family. The system is trying to make them dependent on the socialist government that the system itself, as this book proves, was always intended to produce.”
Starting off with a comprehensive history of the government’s role in education in the early 1800s, Newman documents with primary sources the fact that communists and “robber baron” industrialists had converging interests when it came to dumbing down and indoctrinating Americans. The story is almost unbelievable, and yet the book is packed with sources and a meticulous bibliography.
From mass-producing illiteracy with deliberate propaganda to turning young Americans against God and the Bible — not to mention the grotesque sexualization of children, the emergence of technology as a tool for control, and the globalization of education through the United Nations — this book exposes the real culprit behind the stunning decline of America. More importantly, it offers the only remedy that will actually work.
“The time has come to treat this situation like the deadly threat that it is,” Newman admonishes readers in his final chapter. “If you still have children in a public school, or if you know anyone with children trapped inside, act like the building is on fire — because it is!”
After exposing the wicked history and objective of government schools, Newman offers a solid solution for parents: “All of the data shows home-educated children are running circles around their government-‘educated’ peers on everything from academics and socialization to careers and tolerance.”
“For most families,” Newman, the father of six, noted, “home education appears to be the gold standard. Nobody loves your children as much as you do, and nobody is in a better position to provide the personalized, loving, and unique instruction that will help them grow into well-educated adults capable of self-government.”
Education is the most important issue today and Newman’s book does a deep dive into the crisis.