He just did a Prager U video. He and Prager point out that a nation, that has forgotten its heritage, history, culture and civil virtues, because it is not taught to the young in school or in college, will cease to be a nation because the social cement that hold it together as a people has been chipped away by professional educators that hate America, and convert the young to hate it too.
Someone else warned that we are only one generation away, at any time, from ceasing to be a free people of each new generation is not taught to love and be willing to fight to defend--even die-to extend their American liberty, freedom and way of life into the future against its detractors and enemies.
Returning to Eric: in the video he illustrates how Longfellow's poem on the heroic Revere ride in 1775 served to give Americans at the time of the Civil War a sense of unity and national pride. The young of each generation must be taught and reminded lest they should lose that precious American Heritage. Eric defines them as united as a distinct people with a shared noble past.
Eric wants citizens to be a nation of patriots that are inspired by great art like Longfellow's poem to regard themselves as something more than just individual, private citizens, as part of something noble, true, good and beautiful.
I am an individuator and an individualist, but have no problem with people uniting as a great people doing good work.
Prager admonishes that not teaching history and civics to the young leads to terrible consequences as professional, lying educators, besmirch our historical goodness and noble history, painting us instead as racists and oppressors.
Prager U is doing its bit to bring the young back. I also think we need to abolish the Department of Education, and bring all school control back to the state and local level, and vouchers for dollars to private schools would help too.
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