The Bizarre State of Education

A revolution has taken place in this country and it is now firmly entrenched. You will find this revolution oozing out of every corner of our society... All who love liberty must take the time to learn and understand the full agenda – not just the pieces and parts – of the revolution that is stealing the American ideal.

FULL TRANSCRIPT­: Throughout the first part of this conference you have heard excellent presentations o­n what is going o­n in our public schools.

There are bizarre examples of math text books with no math problems; spelling classes where there are no right or wrong answers; political correctness; diversity [profiling by group affilation*]; multiculturalism [collectivist indoctrination system*]; situation ethics; mandatory volunteerism; life-long learning; civil education (which is nothing but a new way to train children to work in soup kitchens); Workforce Development; School-to-Work, Goals 2000; Outcome-based education. All driving parents to the point of frustration and desperation. 

All driving reasonable people to ask why. Why would we do this to our schools? Why set up an education process in which the children don’t learn?

And let me add another strange occurrence taking place in classrooms that causes parents to wonder. Why is there so much environmentalism found in every topic, from math to grammar.

Look at your child’s textbooks and see for yourselves.

Dispersed throughout an eighth grade math book are short, half page blocks of text under the heading “Save Planet Earth.” o­ne of the sections describes the benefits of recycling aluminum cans and tells students “how you can help.”

The teacher’s edition lists additional activities and, after the lesson o­n endangered species, tells teachers to ask students to list threats to animals, including destruction of habitat, poisons and hunting.

Keep in mind – this is a math book!

The book also contains lessons in multiculturalism under the recurring heading “Cultural Kaleidoscope.”

An Earth Science text book published by Merrill offers a teachers guide entitled “Science and Society” in which teachers are provided classroom discussion material and project ideas for “saving the environment.”

One such discussion is called “Conservation and the Sierra Club” in which this private advocacy group is played up as the hero in a fight to stop the building of a dam in Colorado. o­nly o­ne side of the issue is presented as the Sierra Club rushes to the rescue. The lesson is simply nothing more than a recruitment ad for the group.

At the end of the “lesson” there is a section called “You Decide” in which children are asked, “do you think there is a need for an organization like the Sierra Club? How would you have handled the situation against the dam?”

Another text book for seventh graders by Prentice Hall has a section called “Science Gazette” which raves about James Lovelock and his “Gaia hypothesis.”

The books quotes Lovelock, saying, “Gaia is Mother Earth. Gaia is immortal. She is the eternal source of life. She does not need to reproduce herself as she is immortal. She is certainly the mother of us all, including Jesus… Gaia is not a tolerant mother. She is rigid and inflexible, ruthless in the destruction of whoever transgresses. Her unconscious objective is that of maintaining a world adapted to life. If we men hinder this objective we will be eliminated without pity.”

So much for objective science.Why have schools changed so much? What is the purpose of these new programs and teaching methods?

First, let me tell you this.

Your schools are working perfectly.

They are performing exactly as they were designed to do.

Now the reason that comment may make no sense to you – in light of all you’ve heard so far today – is because you are stuck in a time warp. You think the purpose of the education system is to teach the three “R’s.” Readin’, ‘ritten and ‘rithmatic.

As long as you believe that is the purpose of education today, you will never be able to clearly see the truth. And you will never be able to win your fight against it.

Because you will never know what you are fighting.

You see, you’ve missed the fourth “R.”

REVOLUTION.

A revolution has taken place in this country and it is now firmly entrenched.

You will find this revolution oozing out of every corner of our society. From text books to television to government policy.

It is for implementation of this revolution that your schools have been transformed to produce the citizens to live in the new revolutionary society.

This is the key to all of the outrages you have witnessed in the classroom. It is the root to the drive away from academics and sound science. It is the reason that every classroom is filled with discussions of diversity and multiculturalism. It is the reason children are being indoctrinated to turn away from their parents and the values you have taught them.

They are being prepared to live in a different society than ours. They are not being prepared to be American citizens – but of a global village. That’s why they don’t need to know about American history and the Constitution and the Founding Fathers - for they are irrelevant.

The education system today is simply an assault o­n your child’s attitudes, values and beliefs. It is designed to change and mold them.

If you fail to grasp this fact – you will never succeed in defeating it.The revolution is anti-property rights. Anti free enterprise. Anti individual liberty. It is anti national sovereignty and national borders. It is anti Christian. And it is anti Western culture.

The goal of the revolution is to transform the world into feudal-like governance by making NATURE the central organizing principle for our economy and society.

This is what the leaders of the revolution believe: “Nature has an integral set of different values (cultural, spiritual and material) where humans are o­ne strand in nature’s web and all living creatures are considered equal. Therefore the natural way is right and human activities should be molded along nature’s rhythms.”

An agenda has been set in motion, beginning with United Nations’ treaties and agreements, thereby working its way down through federal to state to local government policy.

The quote I just read came from the UN’s Biodiversity Treaty.One of the major tools for implementing the agenda is another UN treaty called Agenda 21. Like the Biodiversity Treaty, it first surfaced at the UN’s Earth Summit in 1992. The document was signed by George Bush the First. And it is now part of official policy of our federal government – at every level.

Agenda 21 is the United Nations blue print for the complete restructuring of nations to fit into a proper mold for global governance. Agenda 21 outlines, in detail, the UN’s vision for a completely managed society, dictating the process to be used for industry, agriculture, housing development, and even education.

Just listen to a few of the subheadings in Agenda 21 to see how all-encompassing is its reach.

Global Action for Women; Strengthening Workers and Trade Unions; The role of Business and Industry; Transfer of Technology; The Role of Farmers; International Cooperation; Changing Consumption Patterns; Human Settlements; Integrating Environment and development in decision making.

This is not an environmental policy. It is an all-encompassing blueprint to rule from an all-powerful central government.

The common name for the policy in this nation is “Sustainable Development.”

Sustainable Development.

If you remember nothing else you hear at this conference today remember this term. Sustainable Development.

And remember that Sustainable Development is your enemy.

Ignore Sustainable Development at the peril of everything you hold dear. Individual liberty, private property, free enterprise, free travel, free association, even life itself.

What is Sustainable Development?

Imagine an America in which a specific “ruling principle” is created to decide proper societal conduct for every citizen.

That principle would be used to consider everything you eat, what you wear, the kind of home you live in, the way you get to work, the way you dispose of waste, the number of children you may have, even your healthcare, education and employment decisions.

Imagine too, that all of these decisions were called “voluntary” but that the central government would use its full power to induce what it deems “correct behavior.”

Sustainable Development is that “ruling principle” for the implementation of what former Vice President Al Gore said we must all suffer through in order to purify our nation from the horrors of the Twentieth Century’s industrial revolution.

In his book, “Earth in the Balance,” Gore called it a “wrenching transformation of society.”

Consequently, Sustainable Development calls for changing the very infrastructure of the nation, away from private ownership and control of property to nothing short of a national zoning system.

In such a system, the central government, backed by an army of private, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), like the Sierra Club, Planned Parenthood, the National Education Association, the National Governors’ Association, the Association of State Legislatures, the National Mayors Association and the National Association of County Commissioners will influence, if not dictate, policy in state government and in local communities.

Locally-elected officials will no longer be the single driving force in making decisions for their communities. Most will be done behind the scenes in non-elected “sustainability councils” armed with truckloads of federal regulations, guidelines and money.

“Sustainability” – sustainable communities, sustainable development, sustainable agriculture, -- is not a comprehensive approach to environmental protection. It is a well-organized plan for central control by government.

In the report from the President’s Council o­n Sustainable Development, terms such as “harness market forces” describe proposals to impose consumption taxes o­n products that “management” deems to be unsustainable.

You may have heard discussion recently of plans to tax fast food and soda. This is Sustainable Development in action. Proponents believe that if they tax something enough then it will change your behavior away from doing it.

The same thing has been done to gasoline and cigarettes.

Now the “management” that is mentioned in Sustainable Development guidelines is not elected governments. Rather, it’s those appointed sustainability councils and their NGO buddies who basically dictate policy to city councils and county commissioners and state governments.

According to Sustainable Development policies, air conditioning, convenience foods, single-family housing and cars are among the products that have already been determined to be unsustainable.

The logo used in Sustainable Development literature depicts three concentric circles, each labeled with a defining category of the ruling principle. o­ne is labeled “social equity,” another, “economic prosperity,” and the third, “ecological integrity.”

They sound innocent enough. But these three categories encompass every aspect of human life. To achieve the goals behind these three very basic items would demand unlimited government authority to control business decisions; eliminate private property and personal achievement, and create a completely managed society under top-down bureaucratic control.

Social equity and social justice require that the earth’s wealth be shared between those who produce and those who don’t. It’s every welfare program and wealth redistribution program that you and I have ever fought.

Under Sustainable Development, business is little more than a tool of the social-planning managers. Partnerships between business and government decide what kinds of products are to be produced, who will produce them - and how they will be produced. All must be done in accordance with very strict, environmentally correct procedures.

Taxes to force compliance will ensure proper business conduct. Ecological Integrity: Well, that’s just the excuse for the social planners to sucker you and me in and enforce their timeless schemes for power.

In the name of protecting the environment; in the name of social equity and justice; in the name of safety and prosperity; Sustainable Development is fast becoming official policy in the federal government, in state government and in every large city and small burg in America.

Those behind it are powerful, well funded, well placed and well organized. No matter how crazy the plan, they are succeeding in building support from the American people.

Here’s how.

Your community is now a sustainable community. No exceptions. Go home and look it up. Attend meetings of your town council or county commissioners.

Listen to the discussions. Are they talking about how to curtail growth or control development? Are they talking about historic preservation or green space? Are they talking about how to create more jobs for the community or establishing partnerships with business? Has the subject of public transportation come up?

Here is the definition of a sustainable community from the Report of the President’s Council:

“Sustainable Communities encourage people to work together to create healthy communities where natural resources and historic resources are preserved, jobs are available, sprawl is contained, neighborhoods are secure, education is lifelong, transportation and health care are accessible, and all citizens have opportunities to improve the quality of their lives.”

Now break it down. How do you actually achieve these goals?

Let’s take the creation of a sustainable community step by step.

How do the people work together? We need some sort of committee or council to join. o­ne that will set a vision for the city. We need all of the leaders, from elected officials to educators, to business leaders, to the local chamber of commerce to the local news media. They will put a plan together for the future development of the community.

(By the way, that plan isn’t really written by the committee. The blue print will come out of Washington, D.C.).

Now, to see that the committee can really achieve its goals, it needs to have some teeth. We need a partnership between the committee and our local government. A plan will be drawn up and it will be the guideline for legislation for laws and regulations.

Individual land owners and businessmen can’t be trusted to share the vision o­n their own. They must have such guidelines to properly protect open space and historic buildings.

The Committee then must control the use of all private property. It will decide what is historic and must be preserved. It will set boundaries beyond which no new homes may be built. It will decide how the community should look. Where open space should be. Where business can be allowed to operate.

But we must do more. The vision can’t become reality unless the people in the community have the proper respect for the plan.

They must have the right attitudes, values and beliefs in order to support what the good folks o­n the committee are trying to do for the common good of us all.

One place to start is in the schools. Here are our future generations. It’s not as important that they can read and write and perform math problems as it is to understand the importance of living together with your neighbors in a happy, prosperous, safe, well organized community.

They can learn the basic academics o­n their own. But it’s vital that they understand our goals.

So let’s add some classes to help them obtain the proper outlook for the future.

Teach them that they must work together rather than selfishly setting personal goals.

Teach them that our community o­nly needs certain kinds of workers to help the program along.

Help them select career paths that fit the needs of the community.

Help them understand that personal wants and dreams and ambitions are selfish and will o­nly hurt everyone’s future.

How best to teach them these things? Businesses know how to produce things. Let’s form a partnership with businesses to help the children learn about work, right there in the school.

In fact, we can even let the children take half of each school day to go to the job as a volunteer. To make sure that everyone participates, we’ll make it part of their grade.

And to make sure that they always keep the valuable lessons and don’t stray from the special teachings they learned in the school-to-work partnership, let’s keep their education going for life.

We’ll require that they come back for refresher courses periodically throughout their lives. To protect our sustainable community we’ve got to make sure everyone maintains the proper attitudes, values and beliefs.

To make sure that they do attend life-long learning classes we’ll use that partnership with business as an o­n-the-job incentive. That way, life-long learning can lead to better jobs and better pay. It’s all very organized.

For the adults, there can be public visioning classes for them, too. After all, we can’t fully organize the community around our grand idea if there is resistance from some of the people. That will spoil all of our great plans for the health and security of the community.

So, again, with our business partnerships, and with the help of the Chamber of Commerce, and the schools, we’ll work with the folks o­n a neighborhood basis.

Neighborhood by neighborhood, we’ll bring the folks in, teach them how to live in our well-protected environment. We’ll teach them the evils of urban sprawl. We’ll teach them how to recycle. And we’ll teach them that personal wants and needs are just selfish indulgence.

And o­nce we have helped them obtain the proper attitudes, values and beliefs, we can set up some life-long learning classes and business partnerships for adults too.

We must take care of our elderly and our sick. Doctors must not be so greedy. We’ll set up government-sponsored clinics with tax-paid healthcare so all can afford it. After all, we have a right to be taken care of when we are sick.

Doctors will just have to form a partnership of their own with the committee and accept a decent salary. It’s all for the public good.

Cars are a very nasty habit. We must teach our community that everyone should be more open to public transportation. We must build light rail trains and bus lines to get us around to our jobs.

And to make it convenient for everyone, we’ll design housing developments around the rail and bus lines so they are within walking distance for everyone.

We’ll eliminate cars from the community and that will relieve over-crowded streets. Cars will be banned.

Our homes can be designed in high and low-rise buildings with office space o­n top floors and stores o­n the main floor, with our apartments sandwiched in between. We’ll never have to leave the building during our daily routine.

So we don’t need yards that have to be mowed with smelly, gas-guzzling, air-polluting, noise-polluting mowers.

We’ll just provide parks and other open green space for the people to find recreation.

The committee will actively seek to bring in business to the community to provide jobs for our people. But we o­nly want certain businesses here.

We won’t accept those who lack the proper environmental attitudes. They will either comply or be banned from operating in our town.

If we don’t have enough jobs, we’ll tax the businesses to raise the necessary funds to help those who don’t have o­ne. Social equity is key to our committee’s plan.

People must have homes and medical care and food. It’s their right. It’s the duty of those who have money to help those who don’t, especially the businesses, which are so rich.

There are other things that the committee will find necessary to ban – in order to assure that the citizens have the opportunity to improve their lives.

Of course with our low and high rise public housing, single family homes that waste precious land won’t be necessary. Suburban housing will be banned.

But we must also look after public health for our people. They must eat properly. That’s why we can’t allow precious farm land in our county to be wasted o­n raising cattle for beef consumption. Beef is harmful to your health, so it will be banned. Wheat and soy will be grown o­n that land instead.

Ever had a delicious Thanksgiving dinner of tofurkey?

With our new healthy diet, as outlined by the committee, we will no longer need things like 7-11’s and McDonalds and their unhealthy fast foods and snacks. They will be banned.

There is o­ne more danger to the happiness and security of our community that must be addressed – overpopulation. The committee will decide the proper number of folks who can comfortably live in our community limits.

If we don’t control the population, we will be overrun. Some strict guidelines must be imposed, for the sake of the community’s well being and for the protection of our environment.

Birth control education and supplies will be a major part of the process for keeping the population down. But if our folks don’t heed the committee’s warnings, if the population begins to exceed our limits, drastic action will be required.

Limits o­n the number of children a family may have will have to be imposed. Those conceiving children against those limits will have to pay a high price.

Fines, of course. Imprisonment for exceptional cases. Now…what to do about those yet unborn, but illegal babies…? Action must be taken, for the sake of all of us in the community.

Do you understand where we are headed, my friends?

Name the issue – name the aspect of your life that is not affected by such a mentality.

All of this, and much more is the future under the wrenching transformation called Sustainable Development. This is not about “preserving the environment for future generations.”

Sustainable Development is the greatest threat ever perpetrated against American liberty.

Americans would never concede their liberty to Swastikas or Hammer and Sickles. But tuck it all in a green blanket for environmental protection and we’ll toss it o­n the fire like a good old fashioned book burning.

The fact is, Sustainable Development is the social planners’ dream of utopia. They think they just have to dictate the policies, make you comply and they will create the perfect world.

There is no regard for your opinion. No reservation for your property or business. No hesitation to consider your pain.

And experience is proving them to be right to believe that we will follow their dictates, with few questions and fewer protests.

This is about totalitarianism. It’s about controlling every aspect of our lives with decisions made by committees that will grow more powerful and more oppressive with each passing day and each new regulation proposed by newly empowered special interests groups.

There will be no satisfying their lust for power. There will be no part of our lives that is overlooked or uncontrolled

Our homes, our food, our babies, our liberty. There can be no private property under sustainable development. There can be no free enterprise under Sustainable Development. There can be no individual liberty under sustainable development.

Group thought, group plans, group action is how the community will work together. It will be justified as we are constantly told that we are all in this crisis together. A crisis, of course, that has been artificially created by these very policies.

Usually, when politicians talk about Sustainable Development, they talk about environmental programs like the Endangered Species Act; wetlands regulations: conservation easements: water sheds; view sheds; heritage areas; heritage corridors; heritage sites; historic preservation; rails-to-trails; zoning; CARA; energy consumption; greenways; biosphere reserves; Biodiversity; environmental impact statements; global warming and the Wildlands Project.

Please understand that these are simply the tools and excuses being used to dismantle our society and our culture. To beat them we must first understand the character of our enemy and his true goals.

More importantly, we must understand the root of our own culture and the values that produced our nation with the highest standard of living ever known in human history.

We must understand that it is free men operating in free markets, untethered by government regulation that allows men to find solutions to hunger, decent housing, superior medical care, education, overcrowded highways and human happiness.

We must understand that it is o­nly bad government that causes poverty, overpopulation and environmental damage. Totalitarianism, socialism, fascism and almost every other ism are the root of suffering o­n earth.

The logo of Sustainable Development, with it’s three concentric circles, should be viewed by all who love liberty as the new swastika of our era. There is no greater threat to our way of life.

It’s the reason our schools are producing pliable, illiterate idiots. They are destined to become the citizens of tomorrow to live in the drudgery of the sustainable world.

Sustainable Development is the agenda behind the attacks o­n smoking, o­n gun ownership and the new battle o­n obesity. Any excuse to control personal decisions aides those who seek to change our way of life.

It should come as no surprise that o­ne can trace the roots of the Sustainable Development concept to the United Nations.

This is an organization which has enjoyed a public relations dream, getting away with posing as little more than a benevolent debating society where nations can come and air their differences.

But deep in the bowels of its headquarters o­n the East River in New York City, there is, hidden from view, a well-orchestrated agenda for global governance - where independent, sovereign nations disappear; and where borders, nationalities, private property, and individual hopes and dreams disappear.

That agenda intends to bring about that “wrenching transformation” that Al Gore wrote about. And make no mistake. For those of you who love freedom – it will be wrenching – it will be the murder of all you cherish.

And it’s already in motion.

Through the use of UN treaties, especially under the guise of protecting the environment, the tools are being provided. An army of non-governmental organizations (NGO’s) has been enlisted to see that it happens.

If you doubt that, then I’ll let them tell you in their own words.

Maurice Strong, the number two man at the UN and head of the 1992 Earth Summit said: “Isn’t the o­nly hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn’t it our responsibility to bring that about?”

Peter Berle, former president of the Audubon Society said: “We reject the idea of private property.”

Do you worry about abortions and the killing of unborn babies?

Well, that’s child’s play, considering the attitudes of today’s leading environmentalists.

These are the words of Richard Conniff, writing in Audubon Magazine: “Among environmentalists sharing two or three beers, the notion is quite common that if o­nly some calamity could wipe out the entire human race, other species might o­nce again have a chance.”

Remember watching Jacques Cousteau’s exciting underwater adventures o­n television? Well here’s what the late Doctor really thought of you and your future: “In order to stabilize world populations, we must eliminate 350,000 people per day.”

Any suggestions how we might accomplish that? Euthanasia of old people perhaps? With the common good at stake, anything can be considered.

These are the attitudes, values and beliefs of those who are running this revolution. You should no longer be surprised by their tactics.

I hope you are beginning to get the picture and understand why our classrooms are filled with behavior modification processes instead of academics.

Now perhaps you can see what I mean when I say the purpose of today’s education is designed to change the attitudes, values and beliefs of the children .

Your children are being trained and prepared to serve as ideal citizens in the coming global village.

That’s why every class and text book contains environmentalism, and multiculturalism. That’s why the system has been restructured to include life-long learning and school to work.

Let me drive that fact home with this quote.

Lauren Resnick, a member of the Secretary’s Commission o­n Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS) said: “Most employees under this model need not be educated. It is far more important that they be reliable, steady and willing to follow directions.”

She left out “pliable.”

And that makes this quote all the more chilling: “The battle to save America will be lost, not when freedom of speech is finally taken away, but when Americans become so adjusted or conditioned to getting along with the group that when they finally see the threat, they say, ‘I can’t afford to be controversial…”Gus Hall, Communist Party USA.

As I said in the beginning, our schools are working perfectly for the purpose for which they have been designed. Training grounds for future citizens of a world you and I will find very alien in deed – but o­ne in which our children may be condemned to live.

Now that you have part of the picture as to how our schools are being used, this final quote, which many of you may have heard in the past, will, now perhaps make much more sense:

Clear back in 1973, at the beginning of the revolution, Harvard Professor Chester Pierce began to help prepare teachers for the wrenching transformation of our children by telling them: “Every child in America entering school at the age of five is insane because he comes to school with certain allegiances toward our Founding Fathers, toward his parents, toward our elected officials, toward a belief in a supernatural being, and toward the sovereignty of this nation as a separate entity. It’s up to you, teachers, to make all of these sick children well by creating the international child of the future.” Sustainable Development is anti-science.

It is anti-knowledge.

It is anti-human.

It is anti-reason.

In a nut shell, Sustainable Development is designed to throw out virtually everything man has learned since the beginning of time.

It is the creed of the mindless savage who seeks brute force over reasonable thought.

And if we don’t learn of its evil now,

If we don’t heed the warning…

If we don’t rip it out of every level of government policy by its well-entrenched roots…

Then American life, indeed human existence, as we know it, will enter a new dark ages of pain and misery unlike any ever experienced by the community of man.

Sustainable Development, and the revolution that drives it, can be stopped.

But first – all who love liberty must take the time to learn and understand the full agenda – not just the pieces and parts – of the revolution that is stealing the American ideal.

Learn it – and then take America back.
 

The Bizarre State of Education by Tom DeWeese

This is the full transcript of a speech given by American Policy Center President Tom DeWeese to the Santa Rosa Eagle Forum Education Forum in February 2003. This article is posted with the permission of the author.

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