The education of students should teach those students how to think, in addition to providing information and substance that will allow them to learn, and finally to complete the total process, these students, our future generations, must learn the value of living ethical and virtuous lives, for if all education really does is to help in the creation of very smart and adept students, but does not competently address their moral structure on this path, than it has sown the seeds of its own destruction, for super-smart minds without a good moral compass, can and do create all sorts of havoc that will destroy civilized society from within.
This country has an obligation to bring up its citizenry in the right way, so that each citizen has a formal understanding of the values and history of this country in regards to its Declaration of Independence, its Constitution, what these documents stand for, and especially how they are applicable to the living of their own lives within that nation, for the very freedom that so many profess to love, necessitates an incumbent responsibility to that freedom, so that a meaningful structure of how citizens interrelate with their nation and their people is understood and acted upon.
We live in an age in which the firepower of the weapons that our national defense has, have never been more powerful and have never been more destructive. Further, adding to the potential horror of these weapons, is that we are well removed from the age of hand-to-hand combat and are now incredibly adept at being able to kill people and destroy infrastructure through the usage of machines, that are programmed to do as we so desire, at the push of a button, or the implementation of an action that once initiated will not stop until that mission is completed. Those that have responsibility for this awesome power must have an ethical standard that they clearly adhere to, or the very same tools that are currently used to protect and defend our country, can easily be misused so as to take away our freedoms and to thereby enchain us.
The purpose of America is to live up to the principle of America, which is that we are all in this together, with unalienable rights, in which, implicit within those rights, is an understanding that the people must be virtuous and true, thereby living the fundamental creed of doing onto others what we thereby would wish to be done unto ourselves. In the absence of such a belief, and in the absence of not believing that all have been created equally, nations and its people lose their focus and their raison d'être, and hence ultimately lose their freedom, to the iron hand of a government that will master and control them for the benefit of those with that power.
It is for us, a living free-will people, that the First Amendment was written for, for these people have no federally established religion, therefore they are permitted to worship or not in their own desired way, nor does it abridge the freedom of their speech or of their press to express their ideas, criticisms, and information, and finally it does not prevent the people from addressing this government for a petition of its grievances. In order for this country to remain vibrant and relevant it needs a virtuous people, so therefore its educational system must promulgate this, for that is the very essence of this incipient nation that declared its independence from the oppression of another, back at our brave inception.