Deliberate Dumbing Down of America Public Education

283 interface with business drew the idea of Total Quality Education [emphasis in original] into their dialogue. This discussion has led to the beginnings of a national TQE movement in which business, government, and education leaders will be addressing holism in education. It is an opportunity for GATE’s vision to get wide distribution. In a separate section of the GATE material entitled “United Nations Organizations” one reads: Example #1. Several members of the GATE Steering Committee serve on the Seed Advisory Committee for the Global Education Program for Peace and Universal Responsibility at the United Nations’ University for Peace in Costa Rica. Example #2. GATE has been networking with various branches of UNESCO to develop a series of World Conferences on Education.... The conferences would model the non-hierar chical process of new leadership and would be organized according to the following tracks: Critical issues in education; Global citizenship and ecological education; Education for all; Innovative strategies and techniques; Spiritual education; Peace and education; and The media and education. 11 The reference to the United Nations’ University for Peace in Costa Rica brings former United Nations Under Secretary Robert Muller into the picture. Muller wrote his own World Core Curriculum which he credits to a demon spirit guide, Djhwan Khul, who gained notoriety in the early 1900s as the spirit guide of Theosophist Alice Bailey who wrote Education in the New Age (Lucis Publishing Company: New York, 1954). 12 Muller also authored a novel in 1988 entitled First Lady of the World (World Happiness and Cooperation: Anacortes, Wash., 1991) in which his fictitious world leader enumerates a series of proposals necessary for the smooth running of a global society. A few of those proposals follow: 7. A World Core Curriculum and a Planetary Management Curriculum are adopted by UNESCO as common guides for proper Global Education in all schools and universities of Earth. 1996 is proclaimed International Year of Global Education.... 11. More and more countries disarm, demilitarize and have their borders protected by UN observers under regional and international guarantees. The savings are devoted to devel opment, the environment, education and social services.... 15. A host of new world conferences are convened at an accelerated pace: on soil erosion, on mountain areas, reforestation, the world’s cold zones, consumer protection, standardization, world community, a world tax system, etc. (pp. 70–71) The implementation of this global management system has been accurately described in two novels—B.F. Skinner’s Walden Two, which describes “the method” (behavior modification), and Robert Muller’s First Lady of the World, which describes “the mechanics” (blueprint). Speaking of the effect of Walden Two , which is required reading in college classrooms across the country, the promotional blurb on the jacket of the book says: This fictional outline of a modern utopia has been a center of raging controversy ever since its publication in 1948. Set in the United States, it provocatively pictures a society in which human problems are solved by a scientific technology of human conduct—and in which The Noxious Nineties : c. 1991