"In this fashion, the system of modern schooling was constructed outside the public eye and outside the public's representatives."
Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller alone spent more money than the government did between 1900 and 1920. In this fashion, the system of modern schooling was constructed outside the public eye and outside the public's representatives.
Now I want you to listen to a direct quote, I have not altered a word of this, it's certainly traceable through your local librarians.
From the very first report issued by John D. Rockefeller's General Education Board -- this is their first mission statement:
"In our dreams, people yield themselves with perfect docility to our molding hands. The present education conventions of intellectual and character education fade from their minds and unhampered by tradition we work our own good will upon a grateful and responsive folk. We shall not try to make these people or any of their children into men of learning or philosophers, or men of science.
We have not to raise up from them authors, educators, poets or men of letters, great artists, painters, musicians, nor lawyers, doctors, (he's really covering the whole gamut of employment isn't he?) statesmen, politicians, creatures of whom we have ample supply (whoever the pronoun we is meant to stand for there). The task is simple.
We will organize children and teach them in an perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way."
Sound like something Senator Ted Kennedy would write? You bet. The purpose is not to educate, but to control. - Webmaster
Source: Vermont Homeschooling Conference
Thanks to Susan of Connecticut