How Ron Paul's Minions Plan to Hijack the GOP Convention

[RLENT]

This article kinda brings a couple things to light, so to speak. One, the public school system is doing it's job. It has been used for several decades to 'dumb down' the population.

Actually a lot longer than that - probably closer to 100 years. And it appears to have been entirely deliberate and intentional.

Check out the history of Rockefeller Sr.'s early funding of the University of Chicago ... and then his subsequent recruitment of of Frederick Taylor Gates, a Baptist minister (from the University of Chicago) to manage his philanthropic giving.

After Gates got onboard he and (Rockefeller) Junior set out to create the General Education Board. Gates stated the real goal when he said:

“We shall not try to make these people or any of their children into philosophers or men of learning, or men of science …. The task we set before ourselves is very simple, as well as a very beautiful one, to train these people as we find them to a perfectly ideal life just where they are. So we will organize our children and teach them to do in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way, in the homes, in the shops and on the farm.”​

G. Edward Griffin commented on the G.E.B. in his book, The Creature from Jekyll Island:

"The purpose of the foundation (the General Education Board) was to use the power of money, not to raise the level of education in America, as was widely believed at the time, but to influence the direction of that education... The object was to use the classroom to teach attitudes that encourage people to be passive and submissive to their rulers. The goal was-and is-to create citizens who were educated enough for productive work under supervision but not enough to question authority or seek to rise above their class. True education was to be restricted to the sons and daughters of the elite. For the rest,, it would be better to productive skilled workers with no particular aspirations other than to enjoy life."​

Shortly thereafter Rockefeller was dumping money into Columbia University's "Teachers College" to develop a system of conditioning masquerading as "scientific" methods of "education" or "teaching" (all based on the theories of German behavioral psychologist Wilhelm Wundt - the founder of Experimental Psychology - one of whose leading inspirations was Karl Marx) and to train teachers for the rural South on it ..... it eventually became predominant throughout the entire US public school system.

On January 21, 1917, the New York Times had this to say about Rockefeller’s General Education Board and its "crusade":

“Unblushing materialism finds its crowning triumph in the theory of the modern school. In the whole plan there is not a spiritual thought, not an idea that rises above the need of finding money for the pocket and food for the belly …. It is a matter of instant inquiry, for very sober consideration, whether the General Education Board, indeed, may not with the immense funds at its disposal be able to shape to its will practically all the institutions in which the youth of the country are trained. If this experiment bears the expected fruit we shall see imposed upon the country a system of education born of the theories of one or two men, and replacing a system which has been the natural outgrowth of the American character and the needs of the American people …. The plans of the General Education Board call for careful examination.”​

You can read a short article about the history of this at the link below - it should make anyone's skin crawl:

Education vs. Conditioning: Wundt, Rockefeller & the Teachers College

Second, the 'push' is on to make the idea of a 'benevolent dictatorship' in the United Soviet Socialist States, more acceptable. That will soon come to pass. Although, I doubt that it will be very benevolent.

Indeed .... that was the plan all along .... even 100 years ago ...

 

[layoutshooter]

Well, 100 years is several decades! LOL!!

I am SO glad that the vast majority of my 'formal education' was not in public institutions.

 

[RLENT]

Well, 100 years is several decades! LOL!!

LOL ..... fair enough ....

I am SO glad that the vast majority of my 'formal education' was not in public institutions.

The problem is that this "educational ideology" had long ago permeated itself throughout nearly all institutions of higher learning where teachers (public and private) are trained ..... although some educational institutions such as Catholic schools might have been less prone to have adopted it wholesale or in total (due to the inherent anti-religious nature of it)

I'm no expert, but as far as I know the only significant philosophical alternative (in the US) to this type of education would be Montessori.

 

[layoutshooter]

LOL ..... fair enough ....


The problem is that this "educational ideology" had long ago permeated itself throughout nearly all institutions of higher learning where teachers (public and private) are trained ..... although some educational institutions such as Catholic schools might have been less prone to have adopted it wholesale or in total (due to the inherent anti-religious nature of it)

I'm no expert, but as far as I know the only significant philosophical alternative (in the US) to this type of education would be Montessori.

I attended Catholic Schools. I remember, very clearly, being taught 'independent thinking' and 'problem solving'. We had a LOT of 'civics' and were graded on, not only our school work, but deportment etc. Personal responsibility was drummed into us, sometimes with a ruler! Laziness was not acceptable and grades were earned, standards maintained for all. No exceptions. Our parents were ACTIVE in our education, unlike many who sent their kids to public school. Those who pay for education tend to keep an eye on their investment. Another good reason to get rid of 'public' education.

Also keep in mind, I graduated high school in '69. Things were a lot different in the schools in the '50's and early '60's. The 'scum' had yet to take full control.

Getting rid of public education would force a wider range of opinions in society as well. It would eliminate the government monopoly on 'proper thinking' and get rid of 'soviet style', 'applied mediocrity'.

 

[Turtle]

I attended Catholic Schools. I remember, very clearly, being taught 'independent thinking' and 'problem solving'. We had a LOT of 'civics' and were graded on, not only our school work, but deportment etc. Personal responsibility was drummed into us, sometimes with a ruler! Laziness was not acceptable and grades were earned, standards maintained for all. No exceptions.

Same here, except for the Catholic schools and the ruler part. I am a product of the public school system, and in addition to "independent thinking' and 'problem solving', I was taught the importance of "why?". I spent 12 years learning a lot of things, but the most consistent thing, and the most important thing, was to question everything, to not take anything at face value, to simply ask "why?".

 

[layoutshooter]

Same here, except for the Catholic schools and the ruler part. I am a product of the public school system, and in addition to "independent thinking' and 'problem solving', I was taught the importance of "why?". I spent 12 years learning a lot of things, but the most consistent thing, and the most important thing, was to question everything, to not take anything at face value, to simply ask "why?".

Most likely closer to my age than today's kids. Today's schools are aimed at putting out good little socialist drones.

I remember when I changed to the public high school being 'shocked' at how much of the 'new material' in that school was things I had in grade school. I was VERY bored in high school, little challenged me. I went there for the music instruction there. If I could do it over, I would not have bothered.