Can we learn something from Hitler?

"When an opponent declares, 'I will not come over to your side,' I calmly say, 'Your child belongs to us already… What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing else but this new community.'"

Adolf Hitler

November 1933, quoted in The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer

I'm not equating Hitler with the public school system—far, far from it. But I would say that what Hitler said reminds us as homeschoolers that our children's future begins now!

As parents, it is our privilege…no, our duty, to train our children in the 'way they should go' (Prov. 22:6) and to guide the development of their character while they're young.