The Spiritual Battle for Our Children’s Minds Inside America’s Public Schools – Alex Newman

In this powerful episode of Schoolhouse Rocked: The Homeschool Revolution, host Miki Addison interviews Alex Newman about the spiritual and ideological battle for America's children within the public school system. Newman argues that the purpose of education, as defined by Scripture, is not to produce successful citizens but to disciple children in the fear and nurture of the Lord. He traces the origins of state-run education back to Robert Owen in the early 1800s, whose goal was to dismantle the family, private property, and Christianity through government-controlled schooling. This vision was imported to the U.S. by Horace Mann and later advanced by John Dewey and the Humanist Manifesto, which established secularism as the de facto religion of public education. Newman exposes how the deliberate dumbing down of students—through policies and funding from figures like John D. Rockefeller—was intentional, designed to create compliant, collectivist citizens rather than critical, biblically grounded thinkers. The episode reveals a long-term, systemic spiritual war on the family and the home, where parents have unknowingly handed over their children’s souls to a system that is not neutral but actively hostile to God.