Texas Ascendant

Texas Ascendant
Education Lifts High the Star of Texas

Education is creating historic change in Texas

The State of Texas has been investing in education and working
to improve the education of its citizens.

We are seeing growth in the arts and in business in Texas, fueled
by a better educated population.

We are not seeing better leadership, but that can be fixed by
addressing the omission of moral education and by including
moral lessons from history, such as found in Plutarch's Lives of
the Nobel Greeks and Romans, The Histories by Herodotus, or
The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides.

There is no need to let change happen randomly. Recognizing
that change driven by education is beneficial, we should nurture
this change so it can reach is highest potential. To this end, I
propose the Texas Ascendancy Project

The Texas Ascendancy Project

The Texas Ascendancy Project is a plan for Texas to reach its
highest potential. This project is made up of sub-projects: the
Texas Business and Arts Renaissance (TBAR) and the Texas
Leadership Revolution (TLR). Click on the following link to see a
diagram illustrating the portions of the Texas Ascendancy Project.

The year 2008 ended with the American economy in a meltdown
and American foreign affairs at their lowest point since Vietnam
because the New York establishment controls both the economic
policy and foreign policy of our country.

America and the entire world need Texas to grow in power and
influence and become a counterweight to the New York
establishment. America needs better leadership and it is up to
Texas to provide it.

The Texas Ascendant blog exists to share ideas for the Texas
Ascendancy Project.

TBAR: the Texas Business and Arts Renaissance

There is money and influence to be found in the arts. We need
to focus greater attention on developing business and influence
from the arts. This would go beyond the film industry. The
publishing industry is weak and Texas can make inroads there.
Television is weak. There is a big enough market in Texas to
launch a new television network, or a cable network.

The music industry is going through changes and there is always
money to be made in change. Texas could get some of that
money. We have the talent to grow in Texas, we just need the
vision and the leadership.

The U.S. banking industry teetered at the edge of collapse in
2008. The New York leadership of the banking industry is
mediocre, incompetent, and corrupt. All America pays the
consequences for the failure of New York bankers and financiers.
Texas needs to become a financial center to rival New York City,
providing balance against the influence New York has over
Washington financial policies.

The Texas Business and Arts Renaissnce will result in power and
influence. America and the entire world desperately need Texas
to counterbalance the incompetent and corrupt influence of the
New York City oligarchy.

TLR: the Texas Leadership Revolution

America needs better leaders and the 12th Man Writ Large
project is one example of a program to improve leadership in
Texas. Texas as well as America would benefit from the 12th
Man Writ Large project.

Maybe not every school district in Texas feels ready to seek
greatness. Maybe some districts are struggling with academic
skills. The Timeless Way Institute has developed a Community
Compact for Education that could help some districts gain the
parental support needed as a foundation for successful
education.

To make a significant difference in America and the world, Texas
leadership needs something lacking in the leadership circles of
America: integrity and competence.

Integrity and competence are the keystone and cornerstone of
the Texas Leadership Revolution.

Threshold

We are at the door to greatness. We only need the vision and
will power to cross the threshold and begin our journey to
greatness.

Timeless Way Foundation