Deliberate Dumbing Down of America Public Education

54 present emergency demands that additional and more adequate educational opportunities be made available. The defense of this nation depends upon the mastery of modern techniques developed from complex scientific principles. It depends as well upon the discovery and development of new principles, new techniques, and new knowledge.

Endnotes: 1 For a thorough treatment of this subject, please read Dr. Judith A. Reisman’s book Kinsey: Crimes and Consequences—The Red Queen and the Grand Scheme (The Institute for Media Education, Inc.: Arlington, Va., 1998). To order call 1–800–837– 0544. 2 B.F. Skinner. Science and Human Behavior (Macmillan & Co.: New York, 1953). 3 The Taxonomy involves: Cognitive—how a student perceives or judges knowledge or facts; Affective—how a student feels or what he believes about a subject; Psychomotor—what a student does as a result of what he perceives or believes; converting belief to action. 4 See Appendix XIX for an excellent critique of Bloom’s Taxonomy . 5 This document may be ordered from: Education Service Council, P.O. Box 271, Elm Grove, WI 53122. Erica Carle’s latest and very important book, Why Things Are the Way They Are (Dorrance Publishing Co.: Pittsburgh, Pa., 1996), can be ordered in hardcover from: Dorrance Publishing Co., 643 Smithfield Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222. 6 To order Dr. Reisman’s book, call 1–800–837–0544. 7 Speech before Young Men’s Lyceum, Springfield, Illinois, January, 1837. 8 For further information, purchase School of Darkness: The Record of a Life and of a Conflict between Two Faiths by Bella V. Dodd (P.J. Kennedy & Sons: New York, 1954. Copyright transferred in 1963 to Bella V. Dodd, Devin-Adair Publishers). 9 This section dealing with the Dodd Report was written by Robert H. Goldsborough and published in his book Lines of Credit: Ropes of Bondage , (The American Research Foundation, Inc.: Baltimore, 1989). This fascinating book may be obtained by sending a check for $8.00 to: Robert H. Goldsborough, P.O. Box 5687, Baltimore, MD 21210. 10 The offices of Lucis Trust (formerly Lucifer Publishing) which were previously located across from the United Nations Building in New York have offered for sale the Robert Muller World Core Curriculum (a New Age elementary education curriculum), written by Muller who served as the under secretary of the UN. The World Core Curriculum states that it is based on the teachings of Alice Bailey’s spirit guide, the Tibetan teacher Djwhal Khul. The present address for Lucis Trust is: 120 Wall St., New York, NY. Muller’s curriculum can also be ordered from: Robert Muller School, 6005 Royaloak Dr., Arlington, TX. It should be noted that the Robert Muller School is a member of the UNESCO Associated Schools Project, certified as a United Nations Associated School.