Sorry, America, you’re ignorant and it’s tearing the country apart.
But there’s a solution if the nation is willing to listen to a shockingly simple but alarmingly radical plan revealed in a new book from Focus on the Family Vice President Tim Goeglein.
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“We must rededicate ourselves to the teaching of history — true, verifiable, factual history, with all its glories and tragedies,” he wrote in Toward a More Perfect Union: The Moral and Cultural Case for Teaching the Great American Story. “We need not fear to teach the ugly truths about America alongside the beautiful ones because America’s founding vision is pure and her ideals are noble. Our failures do not change that.”
“Every young American needs to learn the story of a nation with a glorious vision of unity, freedom, and dignity for all. Our story is not straightforward. It is not all good. But at least so far, it is not a tragedy,” added Goeglein, a longtime Washington Christian adviser and former White House aide to former President George W. Bush.
Goeglein’s latest book pulls its title from the preamble of the Constitution and is an often-used phrase used by book title writers. It is his third book, following The Man in the Middle: An Inside Account of Faith and Politics in the George W. Bush Era and American Restoration: How Faith, Family, and Personal Sacrifice Can Heal Our Nation.
Toward A More Perfect Union takes a direct shot at “woke” culture and the deliberate rewriting of U.S. history in a way that’s not supposed to hurt feelings.
He offers several examples, including how many schools are telling students that Pilgrims who came over on the Mayflower “were persecutors who engage in cultural genocide.”
But, he wrote, the new lessons in schools are expanding the divide. “Rather than uniting Americans from diverse backgrounds and cultures around a shared love, it is dividing us and spreading hatred,” he said.
His idea: Just tell it straight and let the chips fall where they may.
Goeglein said that his is not just a conservative wish. He cited liberal historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr.’s similar call for truthful education after he reviewed a K-12 curriculum.
At the time, in 1991, he said that Schlesinger urged schools to focus on what unites, not divides, citizens. Many schools, especially those that push critical race theory, the “1619 Project,” and other ideas, have gone the other way, however.
“Young people leave our education system cynical, entitled, and aggrieved. Rather than being thankful, they are indignant,” Goeglein said.
He also cited former Clinton adviser William Galston, who has criticized current education. “It isn’t hard to understand why only 15% of those under 30 think the U.S. is the greatest nation on earth,” Galston wrote in the Wall Street Journal.
Goeglein said pushing back on woke education is hard but that some communities are succeeding. He cited Florida, where Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis is on the warpath against woke policies in government and corporate boardrooms. And he also referenced the eruption of parents in Virginia’s Loudoun County that played a role in helping Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin win the election with a parent’s first agenda.
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Others have shifted their children into charter and private schools.
“Taking a stand will not be easy,” Goeglein concluded in his book, being released tomorrow by Fidelis Publishing. “But for the future of our children, and our country, we must do it. The very future of Western civilization is at stake.”
