by Mary W Maxwell, LLB
On June 10, 2020 at GumshoeNews, editor Dee McLachlan penned an article on the McDonaldization of Police, a rapidly occurring phenomenon that will make all cops global cops. She noted that it sounds as though a re-set of society has been planned for, in every nook and cranny. Dee wrote:
“Tom Hanks, giving the 2020 Commencement Address to Wright State University graduates refers to the time [imminently, when the Covid lock-down lifts] as “the great reset, the great reboot.”
Today I read a witty piece by Jon Rappoport, in his Newsletter, about college students pathetically wearing masks. Well, witty but not funny. More like tragic.
Rappoport observes that the National Center for Education Statistics [is] reporting that many 12th grade students in the United States are reading and writing at a fifth-grade level. And the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) says: “More than 20 percent of college students have been diagnosed or treated by a professional for a mental health condition within the past year.”
Masks
The mental-disorder diagnosis (which can be done even in grade school without parents’ knowledge) gives the students an identity, Rappoport says: they’re victims. And wearing a Covid mask can help drive that message home. He writes:
“Throw off those COVID masks? Not a chance. That would suggest the possibility of independence. Goes against victimhood…. Adjust attitudes. Become a “heroic victim.” Who knew there was such an option?
“Who is Big Brother? The college students hazily think about who is supplying them with the ‘free’ psychiatric meds, who is issuing orders about the pandemic, and who is handing out their loans. Seems to be the government on all counts. OK, love Big Brother, love the government. Done.
“In this “pandemic,” who is the main figure? Who is the one who SEEMS to be on the side of science, with no political ax to grind? Fauci. Well, good. Fauci represents the government, Big Brother. Love Fauci. Follow Fauci.
“Where are the students’ brothers and sisters? On Twitter. Good. Love Twitter. Quick, easy, no thinking necessary. Creative vision, energy, ambition, logic? Empty words from a gone world.
“’Going outside for a few minutes now. Put on my mask. No problem. When I’m out on the street, all I do is look at my cell phone anyway. Just need to stay six feet apart. I can do that. Victim hero behind the mask’.”
(Jon Rappoport’s website is nomorefakenews.com)
“Heroic victim” reminds me of the very popular tee shirt in Boston that says “BOSTON STRONG,” referring to the Marathon bombing. Because Bostonians got victimized that day (April 15, 2013), they are supposedly to be admired for their strength. No, they should be chastised for their foolishness in accepting that most blatant false-flag operation. What a bunch of wimps!
Had I but world enough and time, I would open a new Freedom Trail trail for tourists, around the Copley Square area, There would be a special stop in front of the Boston Public Library (50 meters from the Marathon finish line), where a box of Kleenex would be passed around, so everyone could have a good cry at the loss of literacy.
But Is it New? Not Really
In my 2011 book Prosecution for Treason, I recounted some of the work that was hot off the press from the much loved New York schoolteacher John Gatto, and a member of the Reagan administration, Charlotte Iserbyt. Charlotte makes her fantastic book free online at DeliberateDumbingDown.com.
In his 2002 book, Dumbing Us Down, the late John Gatto wrote:
“The children I teach are indifferent to the adult world. This defies the experience of thousands of years. A close study of what big people were up to was always the most exciting occupation of youth…The children I teach have almost no curiosity and what little they do have is transitory. They cannot concentrate for very long, even on things they choose to do. The children I teach have a poor sense of the future, of how tomorrow is inextricably linked to today…they live in a continuous present: the exact moment they are in is the boundary of their consciousness.” [Emphasis added]
Two generations ago, American kids were routinely taught the 3 r’s, plus history, geography, science, basic moral principles, and great works of art, music, literature (called the classics). I can’t say that this is the only ‘valid’ way – many ways are valid. But I can say, personally, that my training makes me feel secure and free –free in the sense of control, of making my world. The opposite sensation is felt when I lack knowledge. For instance, I am clueless about cars. When I go to a garage mechanic, the most ‘control’ I can muster is to say “Please try not to charge me more than a grand.”
The Years 1964-2010
Let me describe some of the changes in American education that occurred between my time in school and now. The thing to realize is that each of them was billed as something quite other than it really was. (Yes, that means it was sinister.) In the Sixties I noticed the new math – kids were learning about ‘sets’ instead of numbers!)
Naturally, it was presumed that some responsible scholar had developed this ‘new math’ to give kids a better deal. It was entirely beyond our ken to imagine that some idiot would be trying to prevent children from learning arithmetic. Yet now we hear, through the good offices of Charlotte Iserbyt, who is the daughter of a Skull and Bonesman, has actually got the audiotape of Mr. Nelson saying the following:
“In 1928, I was asked to [give a talk]. We were 13 at the meeting… Drs. John Dewey and Edward Thorndike, from Columbia University, were there. I checked later, and found that all were paid members of the Communist Party of Russia. The sole work of the group was to destroy our schools!
“We spent one hour and 45 minutes discussing so-called ‘Modern Math.’ At one point, I objected because there was too much memory work, and math is reasoning; not memory. Dr. Ziegler turned to me and said, ‘Nelson, wake up! That is what we want … a math that the pupils cannot apply to life situations when they get out of school!’~ A.O. Nelson “Young Parents Alert” quoted in Iserbyt (1999) p. 14.
I repeat – that was in 1928.
Congress Gets into the Act
In 1958 the Powers That Be (in short, the traitors to America) y got Congress to pass the National Defense Education Act, allegedly in reaction to the Soviets beating us in the space race. Section 101 of the NDEA says: “The present emergency [i.e., Sputnik] demands that more educational opportunities be made available.”
We all fell for that! And seven years later –the public having become conditioned – Congress passed the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.
As noted by Iserbyt (1999 p 72), by the end of the 1980s, state departments of education would be receiving 60% to 75% of their operating budget from the US Department of Education.
That department came into being in 1979 under Carter; it is Cabinet level. Completely unconstitutional, of course – education is the responsibility, if at all, of the states.
Textbook writers were not a problem, since they had, for some time, been drawn from a group of scholars who, though they may not have been in the big loop, were at least in enough loop to know that they had to take their cue from the publisher, who knew to take her cue from…etc.
As for teachers’ unions, they were the main–how can I say this politely –snake-oil salesmen. They linked to state legislatures by, say, asking for increases in teachers’ pay for ‘new training.’ They also had the task of intimidating any resistant teachers, many of whom simply took early retirement. As for parents and grandparents, they were not allowed to catch onto the changes.
Beverly Eakman
At most they knew the kids were being asked to resolve ethical problems, such as whom to save on a lifeboat. Bev Eakman explains, in her 1998 book Cloning the American Mind (what an awful thought!), page 328:
“[If] you said that a person had principles or that someone stood by his or her principles, it was a compliment. Not anymore. A person who stands on principle is “arbitrary”, “inflexible”, and “authoritarian.” While youngsters may or may not hear the word ‘relativism,’ they will be taught that there are no moral absolutes and that right and wrong are highly dependent on the situation.”
In 2002, the controversial No Child Left Behind Act was passed, making it possible for children to be diagnosed and treated at school for “mental disorders” with Medicaid paying for most of the medications. Since 1997 there is also an Employment Training Act that views children as future workers. It has to do with the “school-to-work pipeline.”
Eakman, who was a teacher, tells us, in her 2007 book Walking Targets (page 19-20), former teacher Beverly K. Eakman tells us about a test administered in several states, called EQA. It contains enough academic questions to be credible, she says, but the purpose is to mine the child’s opinions and values from his answers. Somebody wants to know which children – and their parents? – are “politically incorrect.”
“One of the Educational Quality Assessment questions is this: There is a secret club at school called the Midnight Artists. They go out late at night and paint funny sayings and pictures on buildings. I would JOIN THE CLUB when I knew…
[a] my best friend had asked me to join;
[b] Most of the popular students in school were in the club;
[c] my parents would ground me if they found out I joined.”
This is how educators drive a wedge between parents and their children.
Eakman says:
“Dear Parents, in case you missed it, the ‘club’ referred to is one that does graffiti. The Midnight Artist question was clearly a ‘fishing probe’: it assumed that the child would join the club under some circumstances, including the peculiar desire to provoke parents [!!!]”
“Other questionnaires, under the cover of mental health, have asked pupils what it would take to make them shoot their classmates and teachers.”
Test creators have always maintained, of course, that they are not trying to plant suggestions in youngsters’ heads… But triggering conflict and strife is exactly what these hypothetical questions and self-reports wrought.
“Once a child selects an answer that sends up an alarm bell, anything can happen, from mandatory counselling, to placement in Special Education classes, to drugging and even removal from the home…. [EQA] was testing for the child’s “focus of control”…. Answer “b” to the Midnight Artists question was preferred because it reflected a “willingness to conform to group goals.”
We Always Follow a New Trend
It is a basic instinct for humans to fit themselves into a new cultural habit. Not to do so is to feel left out. But this is ridiculous. We are now savvy enough to see that the creation of the new culture was neither spontaneous nor a product of social debate. It is part of a sinister plan to take children’s minds away.
It has just occurred to me that the move a few decades ago to take writers off the curriculum if they were “dead, white males” was not really a feminist or socialist policy. It was a trick to boot the greats out the door – from John Milton to Walt Whitman.
We do not have to put up with this. Bev Eakman reports that school principals and city school committees had a nasty habit of telling each complaining parent that he or she was the only making a complaint. Now that we know this is not so, we need to gang up, in no uncertain terms.
I quote Jon Rappoport’s June 10, 2020 Newsletter again:
Having told us how the college students are happy in their masks, he imagines a scene:
The student vaguely remembers a moment last year when he was at the museum and stopped at a painting by Goya. It ripped his heart out. It sent torrents of energy up his spine. But…the memory passes. The meds kick in. That was life as it used to be.
“No more. Now it’s signs and signals of social justice and the cell phone and twitter and the drugs and the mask and the victimhood and Fauci and the pandemic, etc, etc.”
Enough, O People, enough.
1928: the very year that WA’s 6 – 15 year-olds became compelled to attend government-approved programming
Ages 6 – 9 actually; as most rights are removed in increments that makes sense
EDUCATION ACT 1928(WA) – SECT 18 Habitual truants
(1) If a child is habitually absent from school without a reason which is deemed a reasonable excuse under section 14, the parent of such child may be summoned on the complaint of a welfare officer or a superintendent of education, or of any other person authorized in that behalf by the Minister, before the Children’s Court to show cause why such child should not be committed to the care of the department established under section 4 of the Community Services Act 1972 under that Act.
The standard justification for such measures is identical to the justification of compulsory firearms registration i. e. “They ( the children/ guns) might otherwise fall into the hands of criminals”
I do wonder what sort of idiot couldn’t figure out that neither demand safeguards anyone against anything, in fact rather the reverse.
There again, maybe the truth is just too uncomfortable.
“Some 20th century education philosophers and social reformers, like John Dewey, aimed to lessen the impact of forced schooling, striving to make classrooms and curricula more relevant to children’s experiences and more hands-on and experimental. “
https://fee.org/articles/compulsory-schooling-is-incompatible-with-freedom/
In other words he knew that the only means of maintaining such a system was to introduce a series of distrations
Last time I looked, some ten years ago, the US was 39th on the global literacy scale. I just checked the educational relativity scale and got a shock…
As pasted…
As of 2018, the top ten countries based on education rankings are:
The United Kingdom.
The United States.
Canada.
Germany.
France.
Australia.
Switzerland.
Sweden
Aha, now the US calculates the scale.
And my impression, based on 5000 interviews with young internationals (1988 to 1995), was that Switzerland was head and shoulders above all other nationalities when it came to social, cultural, and geopolitical comprehension. Those are my measures of education.
Hilariously, with Swiss women easily the most intelligent in the world, they did not get the vote until 1972. I also noted that the Swiss very wisely do not send their kids to school until age 7, regarding children as babies prior to that age. Thus, their inter-generational transfer of values is complete before being exposed to the propagandist troops (ie school teachers). They are also immensely more emotionally secure having not been abandoned by their mothers as in other countries.
Incidentally, next down the list was Canada and then south England.
Meanwhile, my first survey of Australian education (1974) showed that 30% of year 9 kids are insufficiently numerate or literate to complete an apprenticeship. Today, I would guess this to be about 60%.
In 1996, NSW Government discovered that 30% of year 8 kids were functionally illiterate. I would guess this to be 45% today.
As a school teacher trained in 1963/64, at dedicated training college, I was taught actual teaching techniques (generating interest and thereby facilitating learning experiences). When teacher training was transferred to universities, not only were techniques entirely abandoned, the prime focus was on severing the inter-generational transfer of values. Trust in parents was destroyed and alienation became the theme.
All of this is pretty much parallel with Mary’s experience.
Time for grands to step up.
My problem, informing their parents that they are duds. Might take 30 years to change stupid till they catch up with reality!
We may have failed one generation, but stuffed if I am going to stuff up our second lot.
Maybe that is why the control freaks want us to be ‘demised’. (Covid nursing homes?)
Ref: ‘NWO exposed by insider 1969’ : Dr Day address at Philadelphia University at ‘Jeff Rense. Com and also in Mary’s book cited here at gs. .’Truth in Journalism’.
Come on N and bg what say?
Not meant to ignore other righteous theorists turning up here distracting from our planned enslaved destinies.
Apols to my loved ones. I was making a point.
My greatest proud is expressed for your final awakening after those difficult days when you all eventually realised that the 911 official government tin foil hat nutter’s unscientific conspiracy theory was BULL SHiT and and nearly all our BS politicians are killer warmongering criminals aided and abetted to by fake msm and the waste of space ABC.
Do not underestimate a dad and grandad educating descendants on truth and historical facts, denied in left wing educational institutes directed by fascist control freaks.
If we do not have grandads educating our descendants; then grandads are betraying their offspring and democracy, freedom, imagination and destiny via Mc Donald’s etc., under fascist global freaks, is dead.
They are conveying history with lies for the control freaks agenda.
Presently, Hitler would be laughing in his grave as his historic book burning is now achieving his evil agenda,via the msm.
Hi Ned
Well I went to quite a few different schools and they were all a bit different. I tried James Cook High School in Sydney and found it to be very nasty at the time. I tried Hobsons Bay High School in Melbourne some time later and found it to be generally pleasant. I also tried a few tertiary places eventually emerging with a Diploma of Engineering. We probably all know nowadays tertiary education seems to have gone right off the rails.
All I can say is, they can only teach history because no-one knows the future and also I think it’s a bit strange to group people by age when they could maybe be better grouped by interests, I think maybe a good idea to mix up ages a little bit instead of treating people like chickens, but then, the thesis of today’s story is that they are trying to produce chickens.
My father was in the Air Force, so most of my education came from base schools with less than stellar educators. I remember coming home on a Friday and telling my parents I had to learn the multiplication tables for Monday. They got me some ‘flash cards’ and I learned the entire multiplication tables over the weekend. On Monday the teacher started out with 1X1=1, 1X2=2, etc. – I discovered that we were to START learning multiplication that Monday. For the next 12 weeks I had to wait for my fellow students to catch up.
It was ‘off base’ in Spokane, Washington I got a taste of a real education. bg mentions grouping people, that’s what they did in Spokane – they grouped students by their IQ. I was placed in advanced classes and had accelerated reading classes, drafting 3 dimension objects, music composition, advanced math, etc.- It fed my head and I loved it.
Then my father was transferred again and I ended up in California. One of the books I was assigned I had read two years earlier in Spokane. I mentioned it to the teacher and – ‘tough, read it again’.
I ended up a ‘self-educated’ individual (most people would say I had a lousy teacher), I still don’t know what grammar is…
If I was a parent today, I would do everything I could to make sure my children didn’t have to attend a public school.
Since the article’s focus is on ‘ Education ‘ , this British educational video from the past reveals what can happen to women who engage in the frivolity of tertiary studies :
I have to give it to them , there’s a lot to be said for the traditional ways of yesteryear – I’m sure you ladies out there will agree .
( Side Note : I’ve just boarded up the windows & battened down the hatches – as the whirlwind is fast approaching ) .
We do agree, Troof. Them’s were the days.
Here is a spoof I found on the sidebar of your video (which has wonderful comments, all British I think).
Ew. soddy. I did it wrong.
Damn.
Chuckling so hard, I shared this with my wife.
That’s when I remembered that she was a lecturer! 🙂
Here is the video I meant to link. (Hope i get it right this time.)
It is mind-bogglingly funny.
not fair! not fair! that is not the one i selected.
dee please erase it, and the mind-boggle comment.
“All politics is deception treachery and crime” – Machiavelli
Ah, if only women hadn’t got suffrage in Australia, I could have saved the many twenty-dollar fines I had to pay for not voting.
I’d be a rich man today.
The intellectual decline really has very little to do with which school program is better than what. When you’ve got a bunch of brain-dead non-elected bureaucrats dictating when and how children will socialise they’re not likely to get a grip on the fundamentals of anything
Point being that totalitarian control is THE issue: the notion that it merely took a wrong turn somewhere or other is exactly where the Helmsmen are steering.
Mary, what’s the title of the ‘ mind-boggingly funny ‘ video that you can’t seem to get posted here ?
I’d like to see it .
Troof, the title is: “Harry Enfield gets a wife”
157,654 views
•Feb 4, 2013. at youtube
Thanks Mary.
Actually, it’s the same video as the two you posted earlier titled ‘ When Life was simpler ‘ – which you thought were errors at the time.
Anyway, there’s a lot to be said for the old ways in choosing a spouse . (They were much more efficient then ) .