PBS Documentary Looks at Right-Wing Promotion of Ignorance Through Texas Textbooks (Video)

Sierra Voices ^ | January 27, 2013 | Posted by depelton

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Texas textbooks determine what children learn nationwide.

“I believe that dinosaurs were on Noah’s Ark … somebody’s got to stand up to these experts.” (Don McElroy, former member of the Texas State Board of Education).

Watch “The Revisionaries,” on PBS tomorrow night, January 28th:

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While every school and university in the country teach marxism like it actually works.

As the writer Peter Drucker expressed it in 1939, ‘the complete collapse of the belief in the attainability of freedom and equality through Marxism has forced Russia to travel the same road toward a totalitarian society of unfreedom and in- equality which Germany has been following. Not that commu- nism and fascism are essentially the same. Fascism is the stage reached after communism has proved an illusion, and it has proved as much an illusion in Russia as in pre-Hitler Germany.’ - F. A. von Hayek, The Road to Serfdom (1945)