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even less of a problem. Socialization is exactly what
we would view as harmful to our children. Public
school brainwashes them to be mindlessly violent,
unquestioning of authority, unimaginative, and
easily brainwashed by “peers” and packagers. They
study not to satisfy their own curiosity but to gain
approval from some arbitrary authority who will
label them an “A” or an “F” person.
2. Homeschoolers are often accused of being
isolationists and elitists. Christian or liberal advocates
often feel compelled to apologize for their
stance, or go through long-winded explanations
justifying their decision. Satanists would proudly
plead guilty! We don’t have to apologize. We already
bear the Devil’s name; we are elitists and want our
children to grow proud and strong.
3. Most Satanists would feel that children learn
better when they are allowed to learn at their own
pace, following their own obsessions. Smart kids
consider school boring and stultifying. Learning
should be student-centered, allowing the child to
generate his own enthusiasm. That can’t be done in
an education factory. If, according to some bureaucrat’s
study, a child should know how to read by age
4 and do arithmetic by age 6 then they’d better all
know how to do that or they’ll be labeled “learning
disabled.” Children’s early development—crawling,
walking, teething, talking, toilet training—has a wide
range of what’s considered normal progress. But all
that is supposed to come to a screeching halt when
they enter school. They have to learn how to read, do
arithmetic, write, comprehend, all within a strict,
universal timetable. No more left to the individual
child’s initiative and exploration. By constantly being
told what to learn, where to go, how high to jump,
the child is robbed of the opportunity to develop his
own self-discipline, as well. School institutionalizes
and sabotages the mind, short circuits independent
will, which is what it’s designed to do.
4. Homeschooling eliminates the dividing line
between “home” where you play, eat, sleep and fight
with your siblings, and “school” where you do as little
work as you can to get a good grade. Learning
doesn’t only happen between the hours of 9 a.m. and
3 p.m.; that presupposition undermines the very
curiosity and sense of wonder that children are born
with. Learning doesn’t stop when you’re eighteen
years old, either, and there’s a vast smorgasbord of
subjects we’d love to explore or review ourselves!
What better way to do it than to share that excitement
egotistically with your own offspring
Working, playing, learning, thinking and living
should all be threads of the same seamless tapestry.
5. Satanism is antithetical to “enthroned lies.”
Most of what is now taught in public school is either
erroneous or severely slanted, in order to mollify
special interest pressures. If a child can have an
opportunity to examine facts presented as objectively
as possible, he is better equipped to reason for
himself and challenge irrationality when he sees it.
Satanists have strong values that we want to communicate
to our children. Those values aren’t available
in public school. You can’t be sure your child is
getting the kind of public input you want him to
have unless you do it yourself.
Instead of being indoctrinated into a fascistic
political agenda, Satanic education would emphasize
what was once considered well-rounded literacy. A
broad knowledge and application of art, architecture,
geography, literature, music, world history,
cinema, languages, mathematics, theatre, sciences,
etc., is vastly more important to a Satanic Priest than
lessons in multicultural sensitivity. Or, for that
matter, memorizing the Lesser Key Of Solomon and
tracing the sigils from Avon Books’ Necronomicon.A
classical curriculum might revive in us some of the
magical powers of discernment and discrimination
most of us have lost. Don’t tolerate pretentiousness.
When a woman brags that she’s getting a degree in
“Women’s Studies,” you can smile sweetly and say (as
one of our Priestesses did recently), “Oh great—you
mean like cooking and cleaning and balancing a
budget. I’m so glad modern women are taking an
interest in Home Economics.”
6. Homeschooling establishes family/clan unity.
Children see their siblings and parents as co-learners,
recognizing their strengths and foibles, not divided
against each other along arbitrary lines of age or sex.
Satanists are, by definition, the “Others,” the
outsiders—not by posture but by birthright. Smart,
independent, creative children are always aliens in
society. We can find strength in ourselves and in
others like us, namely our family and our extended
Satanic family. Also, we have a network of knowledgeable,
influential people among us and, as our
children grow, we could develop a potent web of
mentoring and apprenticeship opportunities among
ourselves.
7. We don’t want to send our children onto the
battlefield before they’re mature enough to know
there’s a war going on, and to have the ammunition
to fight it. Many of the most basic Satanic principles
preempt problems that public education seems to
find insurmountable—sex education, AIDS education,
drugs, birth control, violence in the media, guns
on campus, censorship of study materials, interracial
conflicts... We should not have to subject our children
to problems they wouldn’t have if the school
and the TV God didn’t construct them as problems.
We want our kids to learn, not waste time. Our ideal
would be to teach our children to be strong-willed
enough to see through the bullshit in society before