What if I told you that the public school system was never designed to make your kids smart,

but to make them obedient? I'm saying built from the ground up, not to set them free, but to train them for servitude.

Stick with me. Once you see where the whole system came from, you're never going to look at the classroom the same way again.

But make sure that you subscribe first, turn on those notifications so you never miss any of these

conversations for the family of faith. As you're watching this, I'm actually away on a wedding

anniversary trip with my wife. We haven't done this in so long because we've been so busy.

And today, I want to talk with you about where public schools come from. For most of history, we didn't have schools like we do today. They didn't exist. Kids just learned about life from their parents. They learned about their faith. They learned how to work. They learned about family and they developed

their skills. Public schools in America actually came from a guy named Horace Mann. And he was

impressed by the Prussian system that he had a chance to witness. This was in the 1700s. Prussia

created something called compulsory schooling. And the goal was not to raise thinkers or

leaders in Prussia. By the way, Prussia was the German Empire consisting of Poland, Soviet Union,

Germany. And what they wanted was a nation of obedient, uniform thinking soldiers.

Desks in rows, bells to move them on command, uniform so that they all look the same,

and then the propaganda education, which was the state is more important than the family.

It was boot camp for kids designed as education.

Well, Horace Mann, in the 1800s after the newly created United States of America,

visits Prussia.

He's so impressed that he brought the blueprint

home with him and sold America on the whole system. He said, this is amazing. This is great.

Now, Horace Mann was also the great-grandfather of the humanist manifesto. He was not a Christian Bible-believing believer like Noah

Webster, who was really the father of good American education. His goal was not only to decouple

the scriptures from education, but he saw an opportunity as well to create a nation of obedient workers. Go to school,

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