The Intelligence Community

During the Reagan Administration, Herbert E. Meyer served as vice chairman of the Central Intelligence Agency's National Intelligence Council. Meyer is widely credited with being the first U.S. government official to forecast the demise of the Soviet Union. I love this quote from a recent talk he gave:

Let's also throw our political, moral, and financial support behind the single most encouraging, most under-reported development in American education. I mean the homeschooling movement. Today, between two and three million American children have been withdrawn from public education and are instead being educated by their parents. Armed with curricular material that is vastly better than what our public schools are using, these parents are giving their kids a first-class education in history, economics, literature, math, and just about everything else. No wonder that so many homeschooled students are winning national spelling bees, acing college-entrance exams -- and being offered scholarships by universities that previously looked down their noses at these students.

By the way, you can spot a homeschooled kid in a second. It isn't just that he or she is so well-behaved, and so comfortable in the company of adults. It's that these homeschooled youngsters have their heads screwed on so straight; they love our country, know how lucky they are to be Americans, and have a genuine intellectual interest in learning how the world works. As these kids grow up and start their careers, they'll run circles around young Americans who were indoctrinated rather than educated.