Deliberately Dumbing Us Down
By Sam Blumenfeld
Charlotte
Thomson Iserbyt's new book, The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America, is one of
the most important publishing events in the annals of American education in
the last hundred years.
Iserbyt has done what no one else wanted or could do. She has put
together the most formidable and practical compilation of documentation
describing the well-planned "deliberate dumbing
down" of American children by their education system. Anyone who has had
any lingering hope that what the educators have been doing is a result of
error, accident, or stupidity will be shocked by the way American social
engineers have systematically gone about destroying the intellect of millions
of American children for the purpose of leading the American people into a
socialist world government controlled by behavioral and social scientists.
Iserbyt decided to compile this book because, as a
"resister" to what is going on in American education, she was
constantly told that she was taking things out of context. The book, she
writes, "was put together primarily to satisfy my own need to see the
various components which led to the dumbing down of
the United States of America assembled in chronological order - in writing.
Even I, who had observed these weird activities taking place at all levels of
government, was reluctant to accept a malicious intent behind each individual,
chronological activity or innovation, unless I could connect it with other,
similar activities taking place at other times."
And that
is what this book does. It connects educators, social engineers, planners,
government grants, federal and state agencies, billion-dollar foundations,
think tanks, universities, research projects, policy organizations, etc.,
showing how they have worked together to advance an agenda that will change
America from a free republic to a socialist state.
What is
so mind boggling is that all of this is being financed by the American people
themselves through their own taxes!
One of
the interesting insights revealed by these documents is how the social
engineers use a deliberately created education "crisis" to move their
agenda forward by offering radical reforms that are sold to the public as fixing
the crisis - which they never do. The new reforms simply set the stage for the
next crisis, which provides the pretext for the next move forward. This is the
dialectical process at work, a process our behavioral engineers have learned to
use very effectively. Its success depends on the ability of the "change
agents" to continually deceive the public, which tends to believe any lie
the experts tell them. It was during Iserbyt's tenure
in the Department of Education in Washington, D.C., where she had access to the
grant proposals from change agents, that she came to the conclusion that what
was happening in American education was the result of a concerted effort on the
part of numerous individuals and organizations - a globalist
elite - to bring about permanent changes in America's body politic.
Therefore,
getting this book into the hands of thousands of Americans ought to be a major
project for lovers of liberty in the year 2000. It will do more to defeat the
change agents than anything else I can think of. (This review is excerpted from
worldnetdaily.com,
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