High School Indoctrination

front page magazine ^ | 08 march 2006 | Sol Stern

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No one familiar with our nation’s increasingly dysfunctional public schools should have found it surprising that a Colorado High School teacher named Jay Bennish delivered a 20 minute, anti-American rant to his 10th grade geography class taken straight out of Noam Chomsky and Michael Moore. True enough, Mr. Bennish was somewhat cruder than your average leftist teacher. Apparently, he was also too stupid to realize that political indoctrination in the classroom goes over much more smoothly and is less likely to cause a public uproar if the teacher observes a few minor pedagogical constraints.

In fact, Bennish might have been uniquely fatuous, but he is not unique. There are smoother, more effective Bennishes everywhere in our great American high schools. That’s one reason why our graduates are so full of self-esteem and have all the right attitudes, but actually know less math, science and history than their counterparts in most of the world’s industrialized nations. Indeed, although political indoctrination in our universities gets all the attention, it is even more widespread and dangerous in our elementary and high schools. The younger the students are, of course, the less likely are they able to withstand – or even detect – attempts at social and political thought control in the classroom. At least the higher education professoriate denies that it favors using the classroom as a political bully pulpit. By contrast, the K-12 public school establishment has adopted a quasi-official pedagogy that encourages the classroom teacher to shape students’ beliefs on controversial issues like race, gender, sexual preference, and American foreign policy.

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Brainwashing in America

WHY FEW DARE CALL IT CONSPIRACY

Take a look at the envisioned world of the 21st century:

	OLD PARADIGM	NEW PARADIGM
Beliefs	Based on Bible	Blend of New Age & earth-centered religions
Culture	Western individualism	Global solidarity
Values	Based on the Bible (absolute, unchangeable truth)	Based on human idealism (easy to manipulate)
Morals	Moral boundaries	Sensual freedom
Rights	Personal freedom	Social controls
Economy	Free enterprise	Socialist collective
Government	By the people	By those who control the masses

The masses would be controlled through the Hegelian dialectic (consensus) process by globalist leaders who would view the world through the new filter of globalism. Polls, propaganda, simple slogans, and continual conflicts would be essential to its success. In fact, the greater the perceived crisis, the faster the leader can assume the coveted political powers that true freedom forbids. President Clinton has already mastered these totalitarian strategies, as Mikhail Gorbachev suggested in a 1993 editorial:

"Bill Clinton will be a great president if he can make America the creator of a new world order based on consensus."

Excerpt from: Brainwashing in America