<OT> You won't believe this

[Bill Campbell]

On Tue, Mar 02, 2004, Leon Goldstein wrote:
>Bill Campbell wrote:
>
>>Government schools are hardly interested in truly educating the young.
>>John Dewey, one of the founders of modern government schools said:
>>
>> ``The children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of
>> the collective society that is coming, where everyone would be
>> interdependent.''
>>
>> ``Independent self-reliant people would be a counterproductive
>> anachronism in the collective society of the future where people will be
>> defined by their associations.''

>These lessons have been learned and applied in every totalitarian regime
>since the beginning of the 20th Century.

Actually it started in the U.S. in the latter half of the 19th century with
the work of people like Daniel Coit Gilman, first president of my Alma
Mater -- Johns Hopkins, Dewey, and many others.  Many of these people had
studied under Hegellian philosophers in Germany, and built U.S. education
on the Prussian model.

Cecil Rhodes, Alfred Milner, and their associates raised this to a high art
form in Britain and her colonies, although they concentrated their efforts
on the upper ruling classes in the British Empire and the U.S. through
their control of three Colleges at Oxford, New College, Balliol, and All
Souls, control of newspapers like the London Times, through the Round Table
Groups, The Council on Foreign Relations in the U.S., and similar
organizations.  Two books by former Georgetown University historian,
Carroll Quigley that go into this in detail are, ``The Anglo-American
Establishment'', and ``Tragedy and Hope''.  FWIW, Quigley was a major
influence on Rhodes Scholar, William Jefferson Clinton, and was mentioned
in Clinton's first inaugural address.

One of the best pictures of government education in fiction was in George
Orwell's ``Animal Farm'' in which the pigs took the puppies for eduction,
turning them into a good approximation of Hitler's Brown Shirts.

>We have truly become a society whose people are defined by their 
>associations.
>Bill Gates must have a framed copy of the above quotations in his office.
>
>BTW if you have the source or link for the above, please post.

Not handy.

Bill
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