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Mr. Gatto (along with Charlotte Thompson Iserbyt), blew the whistle on deliberate dumbing down (on the Prussian model, crushing the imagination of children because it caused them to lose to Napoleon). Mr. Gatto said that the children of the elites have no advantage over ghetto kids "who have never eaten off a tablecloth". The opposite: elite prep schools, the Groton, Brook, St. Albans, Episcopal High & Andover, produce the idiots who presume to rule us. (Thomas Sowell waxed eloquent about how stupid top experts are.) Point in fact (from Samuel Blumenfeld, "Crimes of the Educators"): John D. Rockefeller Jr. funded...

In the early 1970s, Michael Lerner (who would become an important adviser to Hillary Clinton) authored THE NEW SOCIALIST REVOLUTION, in which he proclaimed: "Education will be radically transformed in our socialist community...the main emphasis will be on learning how to... live and work collectively....The next level is learning some series of skills, for one's first set of jobs." In 1980, Ronald Reagan was elected president, taking office in January 1981. Over the next several years, Carter administration holdovers left the National Institute of Education (within USDOE). One of them, Marc Tucker (an NIE Associate Director) went to the newly...

Wade through several hundred discussions about education. You finally realize it all comes down to one question: did all this crazy bad stuff happen by accident, or do the people at the top get up every morning scheming to keep kids semi-literate, unable to do much arithmetic, and ignorant in any direction you look? I'm fascinated by this question because, for one thing, the crazy bad stuff seems too vast to be accidental. You can’t take your eyes off it. Watching Rome burn must’ve been a similar experience. The waste, the incompetence, the reckless malice. Whatever the exact cause, finally...

Dumbing Down for Planned EconomyDate: Thursday, July 31 @ 20:48:22 Topic Stinks Experimentation on Minorities and Deliberate Dumbing Down for the Planned EconomyCharlotte T. Iserbyt July 29, 2003 Location of Some Important Entries Documenting the Deliberate Dumbing Down of America and especially the Use of Minorities to Restructure Education from Academics to Perfomance-Based Education...taken from "The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America...A Chronological Paper Trail" - Charlotte Iserbyt The following information (partial list of entries taken from 700+ page book!) will help the reader locate those key entries which document the experimentation on minorities over the past century in order...

Thanks for getting this out. I revised my original article after having found out that Primakov was also a close friend of Saddam Hussein. Also a former Russian Premier! Check your latest email. Charlotte SOVIETIZATION of AMERICA PLEASE READ ***** PLEASE READ ***** PLEASE READ ***** Last paragraph: Enough said. I wonder if this news will be covered by Human Events, which refused to publish my article exposing the Reagan-Gorbachev agreements in 1985, or by National Review, or The Washington Times, or will it be covered by the likes of Limbaugh and Fox News? Don't hold your breath. -=-=-=-=- You...