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- Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt's new book, "The Deliberate
Dumbing Down of America," is without doubt one of the most important
publishing events in the annals of American education in the last hundred
years. John Dewey's "School and Society," published in 1899,
set American education on its course to socialism. Rudolf Flesch's "Why
Johnny Can't Read," published in 1955, informed American parents that
there was something terribly wrong with the way the schools were teaching
children to read, and my own book, "NEA: Trojan Horse in American
Education," published in 1984, explained in great detail how and why
the decline in public education was taking place.
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- But Iserbyt has done what no one else wanted or could
do. She has put together the most formidable and practical compilation
of documentation describing the well-planned "deliberate dumbing down"
of American children by their education system. Anyone who has had any
lingering hope that what the educators have been doing is a result of error,
accident, or stupidity will be shocked by the way American social engineers
have systematically gone about destroying the intellect of millions of
American children for the purpose of leading the American people into a
socialist world government controlled by behavioral and social scientists.
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- This mammoth book is the size of a large city phone book:
462 pages of documentation, 205 pages of appendices, and a 48-page Index.
The documentation is "A Chronological Paper Trail" which starts
with the Sowing of the Seeds in the late 18th and 19th centuries, proceeds
to The Turning of the Tides, then to The Troubling Thirties, The Fomentation
of the Forties and Fifties, The Sick Sixties, The Serious Seventies, The
"Effective" Eighties, and finally, the Noxious Nineties. The
educators and social engineers indict themselves with their own words.
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- Iserbyt decided to compile this book because, as a "resister"
to what is going on in American education, she was being constantly told
that she was taking things out of context. The book, she writes, "was
put together primarily to satisfy my own need to see the various components
which led to the dumbing down of the United States of America assembled
in chronological order -- in writing. Even I, who had observed these weird
activities taking place at all levels of government, was reluctant to accept
a malicious intent behind each individual, chronological activity or innovation,
unless I could connect it with other, similar activities taking place at
other times."
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- And that is what this book does. It connects educators,
social engineers, planners, government grants, federal and state agencies,
billion-dollar foundations, think tanks, universities, research projects,
policy organizations, etc., showing how they have worked together to advance
an agenda that will change America from a free republic to a socialist
state.
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- What is so mind boggling is that all of this is being
financed by the American people themselves through their own taxes. In
other words, the American people are underwriting the destruction of their
own freedom and way of life by lavishly financing through federal and state
grants the very social scientists who are undermining our national sovereignty
and preparing our children to become the dumbed-down vassals of the new
world order.
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- One of the interesting insights revealed by these documents
is how the social engineers use a deliberately created education "crisis"
to move their agenda forward by offering radical reforms that are sold
to the public as fixing the crisis -- which they never do. The new reforms
simply set the stage for the next crisis, which provides the pretext for
the next move forward. This is the dialectical process at work, a process
our behavioral engineers have learned to use very effectively. Its success
depends on the ability of the "change agents" to continually
deceive the public, which tends to believe any lie the experts tell them.
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- Iserbyt's long journey to becoming a "resister,"
started in 1973 when her son, a fourth grader, brought home from school
a purple ditto sheet, embellished with a smiley face, entitled, "All
About Me." She writes, "The questions were highly personal; so
much so that they encouraged my son to lie, since he didn't want to 'spill
the beans' about his mother, father and brother. The purpose of such a
questionnaire was to find out the student's state of mind, how he felt,
what he liked and disliked, and what his values were. With this knowledge
it would be easier for the government school to modify his values and behavior
at will -- without, of course, the student's knowledge or his parents'
consent."
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- From that time on, Iserbyt became an activist in education.
She became a member of a philosophy committee for a school, was elected
as a school board member, co-founded Guardians of Education for Maine (GEM),
and finally became senior policy advisor in the Office of Educational Research
and Improvement (OERI) of the U.S. Department of Education during President
Reagan's first term of office.
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- As a school board member she learned that in American
education, the end justifies the means. "Our change agent superintendent,"
she writes, "was more at home with a lie than he was with the truth."
Whatever good she accomplished while on the school board was tossed out
two weeks after she left office.
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- It was during her tenure in the Department of Education
in Washington, D.C., where she had access to the grant proposals from change
agents, that she came to the conclusion that what was happening in American
education was the result of a concerted effort on the part of numerous
individuals and organizations -- a globalist elite -- to bring about permanent
changes in America's body politic. She was relieved of her duties after
leaking an important technology grant -- a computer-assisted instruction
proposal -- to the press.
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- Another reason why Iserbyt decided to publish this book
is because of the reluctance of Americans to face unpleasant truths about
their government educators. She wants parents to have access to the kinds
of documents that were only circulated among the change agent educators
themselves. She wants parents to see for themselves what has been planned
for their children and the kind of socialist-fascist world their children
will have to live in if we do nothing to counter these plans.
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- Therefore, getting this book into the hands of thousands
of Americans ought to be a major project for lovers of liberty in the year
2000. It will do more to defeat the change agents than anything else I
can think of. _____
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- Samuel L. Blumenfeld is the author of eight books on
education, including "Is Public Education Necessary?" and "The
Whole Language/OBE Fraud," published by The Paradigm Company, 208-322-4440.
His reading instruction program, "Alpha-Phonics," is available
by writing The Tutoring Company, P.O. Box 540111, Waltham, MA 02454-0111.
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