Socialism in Education

COUNT DOWN TO SOCIALISM IN AMERICAN

        A 1996 poll revealed the surprising news that over 50% of Americans feared their government; perhaps this is the fulfillment of a warning by Thomas Jefferson. “When all government, domestic and foreign, in little as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we have separated.”
 
       From the beginning of America’s colonies until nearly 1837, education in America was purchased through private schools of choice. The churches provided free schools to all who would come. Horace Mann, a Harvard elite, believed his mission was to remove educational control from the communities and the people - delivering control to the state.
 
        One of the NEA’s founders Zalman Richards, at the Union’s 1858 convention, condemned private education with scorn. He asserted that private schools were degrading to the teaching profession. By 1885 some in the NEA were espousing that both property and children belong not to the people, but to the state. By 1905 the American government was spending nearly 22% of all public funds on public education. “Remember” the tenth plank of the Communist Manifesto: “Free education for all children in public schools [and] combination of education with industrial production…”       
 
       John Dewey, father of modern education, in 1933 coauthored the Humanist Manifesto I. The manifesto confidently asserts that: 1. Man evolved by chance, 2. Man created god, 3. Man is his own authority,
4. There are no absolutes, 5. All men should be exposed to diverse “realistic” viewpoints –including profanity, immorality and perversion,
6. ALL forms of sexual expression are acceptable, 7. Government ownership or control of the entire economy, 8. Global Citizenship, replaces self- determination and nationalism, and 9. No existence beyond the grave - no heaven or hell.
 
       The United Nations education program was approved in 1946 at the first United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) General Conference. One of the first items on its agenda was the creation of ‘A Study Of Education For International Understanding in the primary and secondary schools and in institutions of higher learning of Member States, to be conducted by the Member States with the assistance of the UNESCO Secretariat’. Each nation was required to conduct a study of how textbooks treated the subject of international agencies and world government.
   
       The National Education Association in 1954 published a book [in compliance with UNESCO] to instruct educators in the proper methods of teaching children about the benefits of world government. It had specific chapters dealing with each benefit and one chapter on how to develop world-minded teachers. The issue of altering world history through educational textbooks was so important that two chapters were dedicated entirely to that subject.
 
       The “Soviet Education Programs; Foundations, Curriculums, Teacher Preparation” was published in 1960 by the U.S Department of Health, Education and Welfare. This document was the blueprint for the School-To-Work restructuring that would take place in America. In 1961, Rep. John M. Ashbrook tried to alert Congress as to the U.S. adoption of a soviet approach to education by citing a HEW document called “A Federal Educational Agency for the Future”. Ashbrook called the new education program “a blueprint for complete domination and direction of our schools from Washington.” Remember Thomas Jefferson’s warning?
 
      Two major federal initiatives were developed in 1965 with funding from the “Elementary and Secondary Education Act” which was passed in that same year. One was the Behavioral Science Teacher Educational Program; the other was a government publication “Pacesetters In Innovation” - - a 584-page catalogue of behavior modification programs to be used by America’s schools. No, not 584 pages of educational programs, but 584 pages filled with behavior modification programs. In summary, the intent was to create future Americans who would accept the United Nations and the concept of a global nation and one world government.
 
       If schools really taught American history and government, people would know that in 1970 Congress recognized that the federal government had limited authority in education. In an amended General Education Provisions Act clearly stated a “Prohibition against Federal Control of Education”: forbidding the federal government from exercising any “direction, supervision, or control over the curriculum, program of instruction, administration or personnel of any education institution, school, or school system, or over the selection of library resources, textbooks, or other printed or published instructional materials by any educational institution or school system.” In case you are wondering, this law is still valid! The government and educational elite get around this law by a loophole, which allows federal funding of “research and development”.  All 790 federally mandated programs are using America’s children as research projects. Do the words guinea pigs come to anyone’s mind?
 
       Catherine Barrett, then president of the National Education Association (1976), gave a speech in which she said, “First, we will help all of our people understand that school is a concept and not a place. We will not confuse “schooling” with education. The school will be the community, the community the school.” This reflects the Communist view of education and lifetime control of the masses. Barrett continued, “We will need to recognized that so-called ‘basic skills’ which currently represent nearly the total effort in elementary schools, will be taught in one quarter of the present school day. The remaining time will be devoted to what is truly fundamental and basic  -- time for academic inquiry, time for students to develop their own interests, time for a dialogue between students and teachers – more then a dispenser of information, the teacher will be a conveyor of values, a philosopher [in secular humanism]. Students will learn to write love letters and lab notes.”
 
       In the 1980’s, the DOE (Department of Education) changed the character of public schools from ‘teaching’ to ‘ workforce training’, the Soviet poly-technical system. This was done through a DOE work called “Course Goals Collection”, fourteen volumes of 15,000 goals covering every major subject taught in public schools. 70,000 copies were distributed to approximately 16,000 school districts then in existence. This is how Outcome-based education made its way into the schools of America. OBE’s purpose is to change attitudes, values and beliefs.
 
       During the 1990’s we were given Goals 2000 and School-to-Work programs that transformed our schools, which through one generation will transform America. School-To-Work was put in place not by legislation, but by executive orders of state Governors. Charlotte Iserbyt in her book “The Deliberate Dumbing Down Of America” describes this transformation as “the internationalization of education with the exchanges of data systems, curricula, methods, etc., all essential for the implementation of the international socialist management and control system being put into place right now.”
 
       In his last term, President Clinton issued an Executive Order calling for all American schools to adopt “international education”. International education is defined in detail in the U.N. World Declaration On Education For All 1990. It is School-To-Work for the world. The March-April 2000 issue of Foreign Affairs, written by officials in the Clinton administration, states that the new Federal system of education is based on standards developed by “international agreements”.  The U.N. World Conference On Education For All, states that the ultimate goal of education is “to work for international peace and solidarity in an interdependent world.” That folks, is the beginning of the New One World Order.
 
       The official title of the Nazi party was “The National Socialist Workers Party Of Germany”. The Nazi’s called themselves “The Children of the New Age of World Order”. Those who challenged the Nazi’s power were branded “conservative reactionaries” or worse yet, Christians were condemned as “right wing fanatics”. History teaches us that if we do not learn the lessons of the past we are doomed to repeat those mistakes.         
 
                                                                                  Joseph R. Larson                              
                                                                                  Chairman:  Restoring America
                                                                                  restoringamerica.org