Public education has drifted from teaching reading, writing, arithmetic, and the skills needed to enter the workforce toward a moral and ethical indoctrination machine that runs contrary to what God wants children taught about Him and about how to live. Common core math, comprehensive sex education from kindergarten through twelfth grade, critical race theory, and philosophical self-identity studies fill the curriculum, and the system is literally trying to be the children's parent. Children spend 13 years or more, six to eight hours a day, under teachers who are not their parents, and proposals to add more years would lengthen that exposure. Parents who give up their responsibility leave society happily ready to take over, and the saying holds true: if parents do not teach their children, someone else will, and that someone will teach them everything God isn't. Along with anti-God holidays, the world bombards children with Satan's lies. God commands parents to train up a child in the way he should go (Proverbs 22:6) and to bring children up in the training and admonition of the Lord (Ephesians 6:1-4). That training aims at a godly, profitable life leading to eternal life, though it does not exclude academics. Parents who teach God's truth and commandments arm their children with the armor and tools to choose correctly when confronted with contrary teaching. Israel's example in Exodus 12 shows that each generation must be taught the whats, whens, and whys of worship, or proper worship is lost.

Revolutions are made, not born, and they begin in the universities, drawing rooms, and salons of intellectuals, who shape students' thinking and send them out to act. The Frankfurt School's dissident Marxists, atheists who saw themselves as messiahs, moved to America and settled in universities and think-tanks. Their Critical Theory teaches that no principle of civilization should go unquestioned; it holds that Western traditions, including Christianity and the Bible, are either arbitrary or part of an ancient conspiracy to keep power in the hands of wealthy, straight white males. Their method is to deconstruct these foundations, present their own ideas as progressive, scientific, and reasonable, and then use activists, media, and political arms to implement them. They also undermine language, as when "pro-abortion" became "pro-choice" and "homosexual" became "gay." Their master stroke was placing themselves and their disciples in schools early, from kindergarten through the university. There they turned out thousands of young Marxists, Socialists, and Progressives who entered education, media, politics, and government. These in turn formed each succeeding generation and moved the nation's intellectual and cultural thinking steadily leftward. Critical Race Theory, now applied also to sexuality, gender, and even theology, teaches that America is rotten to the core, founded on white supremacy and repression, and that every white person and action is racist. Antifa and Black Lives Matter are the fruit of nearly two centuries of such intellectual teaching, not grassroots movements. Christians should not remain in a fog but should discern the signs of the times and test every philosophy by God's Word, since the hatred of God behind these ideas fits Paul's end-time description.