The author has a Bachelor's and Master's degree in history, and a minor in Education. He spent ten years teaching in the inner city in Houston, and his last nine years in rural and suburban schools. He has grown uneasy by the continual downward trend in educational excellence in America. He has noticed the sad tendancy of our social studies education to make kids think and act like socialists. College professors have observed that the high school kids get to college knowing very little. They know to recycle and to not smoke. One college Humanities professor commented that he surveyed high scho...