Deliberate Dumbing Down of America Public Education

A–145 could train young children to aim for limited goals of common labor. These programs prey on the poor and minority children in our nation. Many of these programs started in the 1960’s. You might wonder who selects these programs. A panel of twenty-two so-called “experts” selects the programs and approves them for dissemination by the Network. They are promoted in a book called Educational Programs That Work published by the U.S. Department of Education. A great number of programs being promoted by the Network state in the book that “No evidence has been submitted to or approved by the Panel.” It seems that even these great experts are not willing to accept the responsibility if these government programs fail or succeed. The radical behavioral psychologists believe in a totally planned society with so many elite to rule, while the drones follow like programmed robots. Very few college professors, teachers, school board members, or the news media have ever heard of the National Diffusion Network, and certainly the average American citizen is not aware of the Educational Programs That Work book or the programs therein. Every American should obtain this book and take a long look at just what their children are being taught or not taught. One experimental program after another has been placed in the American classroom over the last twenty years. Many of these programs have been brought into the classrooms over the objections of teachers and parents—those teachers and parents who understood what was happening. These programs have proliferated to such an extent that the school child has become a human guinea pig for these radicals who propose to bring about the good life for the whole world by “brainwashing.” When is the last time you heard your children speak of the “American dream”? An unfriendly, “hostile government” in action? Well, maybe. Appendix XXIV At taxpayers’ expense, preparation of B. F. Skinner’s dehumanizing book Beyond Freedom and Dignity was supported by the National Institute of Mental Health (grant number K6–MH–21, 755–01). Skinner suggested that “what is called for now is a ‘technology of behavior’—a systematic and scientific program to alter the nature of man.” The major theme in Evans’s book is that because of the complexity of the modern world we can no longer afford freedom and dignity; therefore, the scientific method of operant conditioning should be used to control and shape mankind for the good of the world. Man is considered a “human machine” with no soul, no free will, just a number like “K6–MH–21, 755–01” to be manipulated by change agents—a group of self-anointed, radical behavioral psychologists proposing to brainwash man into submission to whatever they determine to be the best for mankind. This is not a new theme in history. It is older than the Inquisition. What is new in history is that a scientific method of brainwashing does exist. The American soldier in Korea and [the Jones cult in] Jonestown, Guyana are only two recent examples of this fact. If one were to attempt this radical change, the most logical place to start this step-by-step “technology of control” would be to start in the schools and the free marketplace. Part II