Mistakes are temporary because we analyze, adjust and grow on. Failures are permanent because when we make a mistake we then become satisfied with our opinions and content with our knowledge insuring perpetual ignorance.

Compulsory education when judged by all results achieved is a mistake. Keeping compulsory education would be an example of a failure.

“A huge responsibility has fallen to us.  The United States is the most powerful and longest surviving government in world history. As veterans, willing to die for our country, we’re having a discussion about why the United States has made these accomplishments and not some other countries? Why in a mere hundred years have we lost our stories, that key knowledge we learned and needed to grow from a few shelters in the wilderness into the United States of America?  How do we expect our children to keep freedom going if we don’t tell them about the keys, the knowledge we learned as we grew?” ~ My email to Carl, a buddy from Nam

What is America’s key? Unalienable rights. Why did America get its roots in unalienable rights, Nature’s Law? Where did the notion of being created as equals come from? The future United States came slowly into view in the 1500s with the printing of two different Bibles in English. Suddenly the public knew there was a difference between the State controlled message presented by the Church of England and the message in the Bible. Freedom of education revealed a creditability issue with the Monarchy’s centrally controlled education. The issue is where do human rights come from?

Do your rights originate with our Creator as Natural unalienable rights or with the State as Legal rights? If an individual’s rights are Natural than they are unalienable: not contingent upon laws, customs or beliefs of a particular culture or government. If an individual’s rights are Legal than those rights are decided by the whim of the political or legal system in power at the time.

Rights enjoyed by one group at the expense of another group are Legal Rights. “We think they are not, and that they are not included, and were not intended to be included, under the word “citizens” in the Constitution, ….” ~ United States Supreme Court 1857 in the Dred Scott decision against “they”, black Americans. The court voted along political party lines 7 to 2, democrats for, republicans against.

Did the United States make a mistake or create a failure?