Live Fire with Chuck Holton

“You’ve got to be taught to hate and fear,
you’ve got to be taught from year to year,
it’s got to be drummed in your dear little ear—
you’ve got to be carefully taught!

You’ve got to be taught to be afraid
of people whose eyes are oddly made,
and people whose skin is a different shade—
you’ve got to be carefully taught.

You’ve got to be taught before it’s too late,
before you are six or seven or eight,
to hate all the people your relatives hate—
you’ve got be carefully taught!”

—You’ve Got to be Taught, from South Pacific

2 Timothy 2:22
Run from anything that stimulates youthful lust. Follow anything that makes you want to do right. Pursue faith and love and peace, and enjoy the companionship of those who call on the Lord with pure hearts.

I recently went to the library and found Ayn Rand’s book Atlas Shrugged, which I had read several years ago. I had been wanting to find a certain passage that I remember reading from the 1100-page tome that dealt with two boys who were being schooled at home because I found it such a perfect description of many of the homeschooled boys that I’ve met, and embodies that which I hope to foster in my own boys.
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