Deliberate Dumbing Down of America Public Education

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1914

A RESOLUTION WAS PASSED BY THE N ORMAL S CHOOL S ECTION OF THE N ATIONAL E DUCATION A SSO ciation at its annual meeting in St. Paul, Minnesota in the year 1914. An excerpt follows: We view with alarm the activity of the Carnegie and Rockefeller Foundations—agencies not in any way responsible to the people—in their efforts to control the policies of our State educational institutions, to fashion after their conception and to standardize our courses of study, and to surround the institutions with conditions which menace true academic freedom and defeat the primary purpose of democracy as heretofore preserved inviolate in our common schools, normal schools, and universities. T HE 1917 C ONGRESSIONAL R ECORD OF THE U NITED S TATES S ENATE PUBLISHED THE FOL lowing excerpt from a booklet containing articles by Bishop Warren A. Candler, Chancellor of Emory University in Atlanta: This board [the General Education Board] was authorized to do almost every conceivable thing which is anywise related to education, from opening a kitchen to establishing a university, and its power to connect itself with the work of every sort of educational plant or enterprise conceivable will be especially observed. This power to project its influence over other corporations is at once the greatest and most dangerous power it has. (p. 2831) 1917

T HE U NITED S TATES ENTERED W ORLD W AR I IN 1917.

1918

I N THE J ANUARY 13, 1918 ISSUE OF N EW Y ORK W ORLD W ILLIAM B OYCE T HOMPSON , F ED eral Reserve Bank director and founding member of the Council on Foreign Relations, stated that Russia is pointing the way to great and sweeping world changes. It is not in Russia alone that the old order is passing. There is a lot of the old order in America, and that is going, too.... I’m glad it is so. When I sat and watched those democratic conclaves in Russia, I felt I would welcome a similar scene in the United States. [Ed. Note: M. Maxine Tremaine of Massachusetts, recognized for her careful research related to international affairs, made the following statements regarding Willian Boyce Thompson before the National Convention of Women for Constitutional Government in a July 1983 speech entitled “Russia Is the Model Country of International Bankers and Industrialists Administered by the United Nations Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland”: “William Boyce