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And then go after public schools on the primary and secondary level.

This is a little off topic, but today I watched a program hosted by Pat Summeral on education and business. One of the segments showed a K12 system in Kansas with a highly developed technical program. Computers are integrated into every aspect of the students' day. The children had a TV studio.

One of the things that this school does is have children work in groups for just about everything. One girl said that she couldn't reach her goals unless she worked as part of a team. The brainwashing that she is being clobbered with is that an individual can't succeed in setting and meeting individual goals, that you must be a member of a team.

She will be lost in life as far as goal-setting and achievement are concerned because she can only function as part of the collective.

Just awful. Awful and frightening.

Oh, you betcha. I'm getting my teaching certificate right now, and the two things they constantly push are group-work and process-over-product. The values now are not individuality and accomplishment, they are collectivist and being busy (whether you accomplish anything or not.) It's like they are being trained to be union workers. Oh, right... they are!

You are completey correct. I am enrolled in the education department of a public university on the east coast. This groupthink world view is being absolutely jammed down our throats. Only the group approach is given any serious consideration and we are required to assess the students according to the "process" rather than the product. It is communism and dumbing down at its finest. And guess what? My fellow Stepford Students are swallowing the Kool Aid like the mindless lemmings that they are.