Deliberate Dumbing Down of America Public Education

13 The late Professor Carroll Quigley of Georgetown University described the CFR as “a front for J.P Morgan and Company in association with the very small American Round Table Group.” Quigley further commented: The board of the CFR have carried ever since the marks of their origin…. There grew up in the 20th century a power structure between London and New York which penetrated deeply into university life, the press, and the practice of foreign policy…. The American branch of this “English Establishment” exerted much of its influence through five American newspapers ( New York Times , New York Herald Tribune , Christian Science Monitor , Washington Post , and the late lamented Boston Evening Transcript ). 2 Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., penned a tome entitled A Thousand Days in 1965 in which he wrote that the New York financial and legal community was the heart of the American establishment…. Its front organizations [were] the Rockefeller, Ford and Carnegie foundations and the Council on Foreign Relations. The Turning of the Tides : c. 1922

1922

O N D ECEMBER 15, 1922 THE C OUNCIL ON F OREIGN R ELATIONS ENDORSED WORLD GOVERN ment.

1925

T HE I NTERNATIONAL B UREAU OF E DUCATION , FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE I NSTITUTE J EAN - Jacques Rousseau, was established in 1925 with a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation. The Bureau became part of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). I N 1925 T ENNESSEE VS . J OHN T HOMAS S COPES , OR THE S COPES “ MONKEY TRIAL ,” TOOK place in Dayton, Tennessee. This trial was an important educational milestone regarding the teaching of the theory of evolution in public schools. Scopes pitted two famous barristers of the day—William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow—against each other. The basic argument of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the evolutionists’ was that evolutionary theory should not be censored from the public schools. After this trial, Fabian Socialist and first head of UNESCO Sir Julian Huxley claimed that humanism’s “keynote, the central concept to which all its details are related, is evolution.” [Ed. Note: Huxley could have continued by predicting that educational and training methods in the future would be based on the theory of evolution—that man is an animal to be trained as Pavlov, Thorndike and Skinner trained animals, as with outcome-based education, mastery learning and direct instruction.]