Deliberate Dumbing Down of America Public Education

39 Maine. Founders of the National Training Laboratory had important connections with the Office of Strategic Services (OSS)—World War II forerunner to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The NTL would become—with the National Education Association (NEA)—a premiere agency for human relations training (change agent/brainwashing). A 1962 book published jointly by NTL and the NEA entitled Five Issues in Training addressed the process of “unfreezing, changing, and refreezing” attitudes in order to bring about change by stating the following: “The Chinese communists would remove the target person from those situations and social relationships which tended to confirm and reinforce the validity of the old attitudes.” (p. 49) This process is widely used in education, theology, medicine, business, government, etc., by pressuring individuals to participate in “retreats,” removing them from familiar surroundings to “unfreeze” their attitudes and values. People have been coming from all over the world to attend these retreats at NTL in Bethel, Maine since its founding. An excerpt from the 1977 issue of NTL Newsletter follows: From the New Britain workshop dialogues of the founders emerged the notions of “action research laboratory” and “change agent” which were terms coined to denote a very vigorous proactive social change kind of posture, a merging of radical education, deviant behavioral science, and humanistic democracy. The Fomentation : c. 1948 H IGHER E DUCATION FOR A MERICAN D EMOCRACY ; V . 3, O RGANIZING H IGHER E DUCATION , report of the President’s Commission on Higher Education (U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, D.C., 1947) was circulated. It revealed that: The role which education will play officially must be conditioned essentially by policies established by the State Department in this country and by ministries of foreign affairs in other countries. Higher education must play a very important part in carrying out in this country the program developed by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization and in influencing that program by studies and reports bearing upon international relations.... The United States Office of Education must be prepared to work effectively with the State Department and with the UNESCO. (p. 48)

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S EXUAL B EHAVIOR IN THE H UMAN M ALE BY A LFRED C. K INSEY WITH W ARDELL P OMEROY , Clyde Martin and Paul Gebhard (W.B. Saunders: Philadelphia, PA, 1948) was published. This book and the controversial “research” it represented became a lightning rod around which much social turmoil was generated in this country and abroad. As Judith Reisman, Ph.D., has described in her book, Kinsey: Crimes and Consequences 6 (Institute for Media Education: Arlington, Va., 1998): Three books written by leading legal, scholarly, and scientific authorities and assisted by Kinsey, were published in 1948 in tandem with Kinsey’s Sexual Behavior in the Human Male. All three books called for legal implementation of Kinsey’s “grand scheme” to loosen,