Deliberate Dumbing Down of America Public Education

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1921

I N 1921 THE L EAGUE FOR I NDUSTRIAL D EMOCRACY CHANGED ITS NAME FROM THE I NTERCOL legiate Socialist Society (ISS) and stated its purpose as: “Education for a new social order based on production and not for profit” (“A Chronology of Education,” Dorothy Dawson, 1978).

H AROLD R UGG , WRITER OF SOCIAL STUDIES TEXTBOOK SERIES ENTITLED T HE F RONTIER Thinkers which was published by the Progressive Education Association, in 1921 became president of the National Association of Directors of Education Research which would later become known as the American Educational Research Association. T HE C OUNCIL ON F OREIGN R ELATIONS WAS ESTABLISHED IN 1921 THROUGH THE EFFORTS OF Col. Edwin Mandell House, confidant extraordinaire to President Woodrow Wilson and about whom Wilson said, “Mr. House is my second personality… His thoughts and mine are one.” House was the initiator of the effort to establish this American branch of the English Royal Institute of International Affairs. Prior to 1921, House’s group, “the Inquiry,” called the CFR the “Institute of International Affairs.” In 1912 House had authored Philip Dru: Administrator which promoted “socialism as dreamed of by Karl Marx” about which book Wilson’s Secretary of the Interior Franklin Lane wrote to a personal friend: “All that book has said should be, comes about. The President comes to Philip Dru in the end.” Walter Lippmann, member of the Fabian Society and Intercollegiate Socialist Society, was a founding member of the CFR. Whitney Shepardson was a director of the CFR from 1921 until 1966. Shepardson had been an assistant to Col. House in the 1918 peace conference following World War I and served as secretary of the League of Nations committee. Shepardson later became a director of the Carnegie Corporation British and Colonies fund. Other early CFR members included: Charles E. (Chip) Bohlen, first secretary to the American embassy in Moscow during World War II and President Franklin Roosevelt’s interpreter for his meeting with Josef Stalin at the Teheran conference; Frank Aydelotte, a trustee of the Carnegie Foundation, president of Swarthmore College, American secretary to the (Cecil) Rhodes Trustees (of the Rhodes Scholarship Fund), and director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton; Secretary of War Henry Stimson, who initiated George Bush into “Skull and Bones” and whose special consultant Bernadotte Schmitt had also been a special advisor to Alger Hiss when he had served as secretary-general of the United Nations Conference on International Organization in San Francisco in 1945; and William Paley, founder of the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) whose chief advisor was Edward Bernays, Sigmund Freud’s nephew who wrote Propaganda, in which Bernays reveals: Those who manipulate the organized habits and opinions of the masses constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of the country…. It remains a fact in almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by this relatively small number of persons…. As civilization has become more complex, and as the need for invisible government has been increasingly demonstrated, the technical means have been invented and developed by which opinion may be regimented.