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itsthepathocrats
11-07-2008, 01:05 PM
The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America (http://www.deliberatedumbingdown.com/)
itsthepathocrats
11-07-2008, 03:31 PM
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humanic
11-07-2008, 03:33 PM
The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America (http://www.deliberatedumbingdown.com/)
Great recommendation. See also: Who Controls Our Children? (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7398714418354815608&ei=WbkUSancDIruqAKP2ej8BA&q=who+controls+the+children)
Truth Warrior
11-07-2008, 03:42 PM
Deliberate Dumbing Down of America - E Book download is NOW FREE TO ALL!!!
Right click and "Save Link As"
Click here to begin download
File is 6.75 MB (http://www.deliberatedumbingdown.com/MomsPDFs/DDDoA.sml.pdf)
PatriotOne
11-07-2008, 04:47 PM
I've seen the video. It's very informational on one aspect of the process of dumbing us down.
Thanks for the ebook TW! I haved saved it for reading later.
itsthepathocrats
11-07-2008, 05:08 PM
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lucius
11-07-2008, 10:18 PM
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Lord Xar
11-08-2008, 03:22 AM
I understand 'knowing' is a large part of the battle, but what do you do? -- take your kid out of public school? Teach your kid, after-school, about individual success and achievment etc... Do private schools follow this curriculum also?
FindLiberty
11-08-2008, 03:30 AM
... Do private schools follow this curriculum also?
Most do.
lucius
11-08-2008, 07:38 AM
I understand 'knowing' is a large part of the battle, but what do you do? -- take your kid out of public school? Teach your kid, after-school, about individual success and achievment etc... Do private schools follow this curriculum also?
Understand that it is policy agenda to separate the child from the parents at the earliest age possible so that they can be properly indoctrinated; it also drives a wedge later in the child's life between the child/parent relationship among other things--it's modeled off the soviets. It was important for me to read Deliberate Dumbing Down of America to shake off my personal denial for I am a product of this same indoctrination and to understand the nuances--the author, Charlotte Iserbyt, was 'whistle blowing' from the top of the Dept of Ed during Reagan's administration.
We adjusted our lives, so that either I or my wife home-school the kids. It is much work and sacrifice, but it's your kids.
Another exceptional read: The Underground History of American Education by John Taylor Gatto.
http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/images/3rdcover.jpg
Read The Whole Book Online: http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/
Andrew-Austin
11-08-2008, 08:42 AM
You can find a lot of lectures by John Taylor Gatto via a torrent search.
:bunchies:
ronpaulforprez2008
11-08-2008, 01:44 PM
Download Back to Basics Reform on the Education System (http://www.deliberatedumbingdown.com/pages/back_to_basics_reform.html) (excellent resources)
- Download 17 page Booklet (http://www.deliberatedumbingdown.com/OtherPDFs/B_to_B_Reform_Iserbyt_17p.pdf)
- Download Book (http://www.deliberatedumbingdown.com/OtherPDFs/B_to_B_Reform_Iserbyt_book.pdf)
Understand how the long-planned controversial restructuring of
education from academics to workforce training, necessary for the
planned global economy and United States participation in a socialist
world government, was finalized between 1980 and the present time, and
to take action to put a stop to education restructuring.
Although the 150-year history of this unconstitutional agenda is
documented in the deliberate dumbing down of america...A Chronological
Paper Trail, 1999, Back to Basics Reform Or...... lets the reader
peek into the laboratory of the change agents at the U.S. Department of
Education in the early eighties, when and where the author worked as a
Senior Policy Advisor, with access to confidential planning. The
author was fired for leaking a very important document to the press.
However, since she knew she would get fired for doing so, she managed
to remove all the incriminating documents from her office prior to
leaking the one most important document. Much of the information
gleaned from these purloined documents is found in "Back to Basics
Reform Or...".
The period about which the author writes was the period during which
the Pavlovian/Skinnerian Outcomes Based Education was institutionalized
for all students, not just the minorities who had been victimized by
the federally-funded method since the mid-sixties. When the
Skinnerian/Pavlovian method necessary for work force training...mastery
learning/direct instruction, OBE... "worked" (dumbed down the
minorities), obviously through no fault of their own, it was decided to
use this "successful" method on all American children, which is what we
see happening today through Goals 2000, The School to Work
Opportunities Act, and most recently, The No Child Left Behind Act
which mandates the use of scientific research based reading instruction
which is based on the animal training methods of Pavlov and Skinner.
Once all teachers have been retrained in this method to teach reading,
it can be used for teaching/training in all subjects, but it is
especially well-suited for work force training and
computer-assisted-instruction. It is referred to by knowledgeable
education researchers as " Limited Learning for Lifelong Labor"!
Nationwide distribution of this little booklet could have resulted in
the abolition of the unconstitutional U.S. Department of Education,
something President Reagan had promised the American people during his
campaign for President. This would, of course, have stopped the
controversial education restructuring we see today. However, that
was not to be since the major conservative organizations in our
country, now referred to as neoconservative, successfully boycotted
the booklet, and, although 50,000 copies were sold at the grassroots
level, it is unlikely that more than a few elected officials ever had
the opportunity to read it and act upon its recommendations.
Please use the two versions of this booklet as you wish, but
especially get the booklet into the hands of your elected officials at
the local, state, and federal level. They are the ones you should
lobby for abolishing the unconstitutional Department of Education.
If we want to bring traditional academic education back to the local
level, in the hands of locally elected school boards, teachers, and
parents, and to restore education to its legitimate role in the
creation of upward mobility for our children, i.e. freedom to chose
one's occupation, the U.S. Department of Education, which is in
partnership with the U.S. Department of Labor and the United Nations,
MUST be abolished. Abolishing the Department of Education would also
deal an almost lethal blow to the change agents' plans to put us under
the United Nations global economic system. The rats would have to
jump off their sinking ship!
There can be no better time than right now to contact your elected
officials since all Americans, including public school teachers,
administrators, state Governors, school board members, parents,
Congressmen and Senators, etc. are up in arms over the Leave No Child
Behind Act which mandates national testing which obviously calls for a
national curriculum geared only to training our children as human
resources for the global economy!
OferNave
11-08-2008, 03:11 PM
This is all good stuff - especially the Gatto book - and I think everyone should homeschool, since public school equals mental death. But there's more to parenting than this.
I highly recommend you go to this website and listen to podcasts 89-92 about parenting:
http://freedomainradio.com/
ronpaulforprez2008
11-09-2008, 03:26 PM
You can find a lot of lectures by John Taylor Gatto via a torrent search.
'State Controlled Consciousness'
"John Taylor Gatto, an American retired school teacher of 29 years 8 months and author of several books on education, talks about compulsory schooling and explains why it is bad.
Most people believe that compulsory education was invented to educate, that’s a lie, there is a reason why prisons, compulsory education and factory’s made their appearance around the same time. Factory’s came but the people rejected this kind of degrading work at first, working in factory’s was thought of being similar to slave labour and nothing a gentleman (the system started in England) should do. They could not change the adult people to accept the work in factory’s but they could create a system which would condition the next generation to think of this kind of work as normal; compulsory schooling.
That’s how it started, Prussia and England were the first places, from their it came to the Soviet union were Marxist principles were added and this system than found it’s way to the US - thanks to the Rockefeller foundation. And fallowing ww2 they have started to re-import it to Europe were the people are now blown with this kind of Neo-Marxist indoctrination which does not really educate.
The humans brain in many aspects works like a computer, it takes in information and works with what it got. Feed wrong, illogical, and/or incoherent information to people and you take away their ability to think clearly and in the same way that a computer fed with wrong data does not work properly. Intelligence is only raw power, without the right information put into context in an intelligible way, even the most intelligent people will appear stupid because they can not put their raw-capacity to use!"
Baptist
10-01-2009, 11:43 PM
I am going to order Iserbyts' and Gatto's book next week. Are these tough reads? They are big books.
[edit] Found this thread doing a search for Gatto. Mods, might want to move it to "Education."
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