Nauseating NEA

Frederick R Smith has moved to Frederick R. Smith Speaks (substack.com)

People exposed to the public education system see a deplorable almost indescribable situation. Horror stories abound. Even those who do not have children in the public schools know of the trouble in our learning (cough cough) centers. Falling grades and the violence committed by the darlings tell the story. Sad to say, even many of the private schools have the infection - radical egalitarian philosophies. To hide the facts, the Marxists in control of the school system insist that things are “acceptable,” and more money will make things “better.” The reality – the money goes up academia goes down.

A century ago, schools were doing well, virtually all students graduated literate. Today, the literacy rate has plummeted and even those who now graduate would have failed in the good old days. The deplorable condition of our schools is not just about enough money to instruct the students. It is about power and manipulation. So, when did our ride down the well-lubricated sliding board start?  Stay tuned for a wild ride.

All ahead slow and steady, hidden in plain sight, with the principal culprit being non-other than the National Education Association (NEA). Birthed in 1857 as the National Teachers Association in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, it later became the NEA.  It joined ranks with the National Association of School Superintendents and the American Normal School Association. Today, the NEA is the largest teacher’s union in the nation and in some areas, it has a virtual monopoly on representation.  In 1908, the NEA accomplice John Dewey wrote:

“Our schools ... are performing an infinitely significant religious work. They are promoting the social unity out of which in the end genuine religious unity must grow. ...dogmatic beliefs... we see.. disappearing... It is the part of men to... work for the transformation of all practical instrumentalities of education till they are in harmony with these ideas.”

In 1916, Dewey was recognized as the leader of the “progressive educators” and he wrote:

“There is always a danger that increased personal independence will decrease the social capacity of an individual... It often makes an individual so insensitive in his relations to others as to develop an illusion of being really able to stand and act alone--an unnamed form of insanity which is responsible for a large part of the remedial suffering of the world.”

In 1932, the NEA named Dewey their honorary president. In 1933, he co-authored the first Humanist Manifesto, which called for “synthesizing of all religions and a socialized and cooperative economic order.” By the 1950’s, the “progressive” educators had infiltrated the ranks at education colleges.  They occupied the offices of school superintendents and principals. In the 1952 Congressional Record, Senator William Jenners wrote:

“This war against our Constitution ... is being fought here... in our schools... colleges... churches... women’s clubs. It is being fought with our money, channeled through the State Department. It is being fought 24 hours a day.... while we remain asleep.... The United Nations is at work... every day and night, changing the teachers, changing the teaching materials, changing the very words and tones--changing all the essential ideas which we imagine our schools are teaching to our young folks.”

So, what are some of the tenants of Dewey’s (read NEAs) program? How about students governing themselves and teachers serving as “guides.” If that is not enough, what about declaring that “Scientific study of each pupil’s development, physical, mental, social and spiritual, is absolutely essential to the intelligent direction of his development.” Today it includes sexual education. Let us call it what that is: indoctrination into deviant sexual behavior for the darlings in grade school. This is not a joke, keep on reading my friends. 

At NEA’s 1935 annual meeting, Willard Givens declared:

“...many drastic changes must be made …. a dying ‘laissez-faire’ must be completely destroyed and all of us, including the ‘owners,’ must be subjected to a large degree of social control.... The major function of the school is the social orientation of the individual. It must seek to give him understanding of the transition to a new social order.”

There it is - schools are to no longer focus on the education of students but to socialize them. Affirming this concept in 1953 was the Dewey disciple B.F. Skinner in his treatise Science and Human Behavior wrote: “…. Operant conditioning shapes behavior as a sculptor shapes a lump of clay.” Sounds like the practitioners of the “living breathing constitution” have taken some clues from the Skinner playbook.

It is important to note that the NEA has an infatuation with the United Nations (UN) and their educational (cough cough) organ, the United Nations Education and Scientific Organization (UNECSO). To wit, in 1946 NEA gushed that UNESCO was “the culmination of a movement for the creation of an international agency of education… each member nation... has a duty to see to it that nothing in its curriculum... is contrary to UNESCO's aims.” The report “Education for International Understanding in American Schools” published in 1948 stated “The idea has become established that the preservation of international peace and order may require that force be used to compel a nation to conduct its affairs within the framework of an established world system. The most modern expression of this doctrine and collective security in the United Nations Charter.” This beat goes on, as the NEA says nothing of the precepts contained in our founding documents such as the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution. For proof in the pudding, this author recommends a tour of the NEA website at www.nea.org. How is that for a warm and fuzzy?

In 1956, Dr. Counts organized educators to study changes to the curricula, textbooks, etc. through the Commission on Social Studies of the American Historical Association. In 1958 this “commission” recommended that “... separate courses in history, economics, civics, and geography be abandoned - or, rather, all combined into one course to be called ‘social studies,’ with emphasis on ‘social’ or ‘conflict of masses’ ideas. ... Cumulative evidence supports the conclusion, that, in the United States as in other countries, the age of individualism and laissez-faire in economy and government is closing and that a new age of collectivism is emerging …” Does this sound familiar?

Chester Pierce, Professor of Education and Psychiatry at Harvard, told the Association for Childhood Education International in 1970 that “every child in American entering schools at the age of five is insane because he comes to schools with certain allegiances toward our founding father, toward his parents, toward a belief in a supernatural being, toward the sovereignty of this nation as a separate entity...” The operative word is “insane” but this is good food for the NEA.

No conspiracy here, it is all out in plain sight for those who are no longer looking through rose-colored spectacles. Trust in God, family, and limited government (in that order) no more and replaced by the Dewey/Skinner/NEA creed. Schools receiving government money may not mention God in a Judeo-Christian context. The ever-powerful leviathan government and it's surrogate the educational (cough cough) system, with NEA operatives, has become the new parents for the children. It is quite brilliant, the NEA with its allies such as the Supreme Court have all done an admirable (cough cough) job. They make the students illiterate and morally fuzzy. There is no other explanation as it fits the agenda as there is ever more money for increasing programs. Thus, NEA will pretend to repair their created problems. The desired result; more teachers, money, bureaucrats, control, and power.

Has this system been successful in eradicating religion from the schools? Nope. With traditional Christianity virtually extinct, we find a homogenized pseudo-religion. This includes new age thinking, myths, symbols, and earth worship (climate change). The NEA and its willing partners have a zealot attitude about their program. In their warped minds, this pseudo-religion is greater than any mainstream religious order. They want humans to worship their notion of a worldwide socialist governing entity. The NEA is at the forefront for sure.

In the beginning, the NEA advanced the cause of education and professional advancement. The NEA transformed from a home office of federated state educational organizations into a militant union. It now spends the largest part of its resources on political activities. In fact, the NEA is now one of the largest political lobbying organizations. In 1976 NEA president Ryor said his organization is “the foremost political power in the nation.” Duplicitous Demagogues club includes the NEA.  It is an organization that decries the lobbying of big business while promoting its own “political power.”

The only other choice (for lack of a better word) for an educator’s union is the American Federation of Teachers (AFT). Not as radical as the NEA, the AFT with its one million members and the NEA with its three million members both tow the Marxist line. Together, they contributed about $32.5 million to the 2016 elections. It is easy to guess who got most of these funds. Democratic Party gets the prize. Remember, businesses that lobby in an analogous manner face demonization by the same ilk that reaps the $32.5 million harvest. Will “campaign finance reform” take care of this problem? Do not look for CNN to expose this fleecing of America.

I feel sorry for the people who believe that the NEA’s most zealot partner, the Democratic Party, is good for the nation. As for the Republican Party, it is as bad but for distinct reasons (e.g., No Child Left Behind).

Is the information in this paper controversial? You bet. The minions of the evil empire, otherwise known as the news and entertainment establishment, will demonize what they do not like. They call it “controversial.” That is right controversial, but the plain truth shows us that it is only a problem for those who do not want the real agenda exposed. The moral of the story - when the establishment calls something controversial it typically is a good thing.

Enter the “mostly peaceful protests” of 2020. A critical thinking person can see the reality of looting and rioting. Young adults show their inculcated ignorance by destroying statues of historical figures that fought for the very thing they clamor about. Secondary education is the pinnacle of Marxist indoctrination. Defund Academia!

The following books were the primary sources for the information in this Paper:

The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America: A Chronological Paper Trail
by Charlotte Thompson Iserbyt, 462 pages, 3D Research Co; (September 1999).

Cloning of the American Mind: Eradicating Morality through Education
by B. K. Eakman, 608 pages, Huntington House Pub; (August 1998) 

None Dare Call It Education: What's Happening to Our Schools & Our Children?
by John Stormer, 224 pages, Liberty Bell Press; (October 1998)

The Public Orphanage: How Public Schools Are Usurping Control of Our Children
by Eric Buehrer, 244 pages, Word Publishing; (July 1995)

Inside American Education: The Decline, The Deception, The Dogmas
by Thomas Sowell, 384 pages, Free Press; (September 1992) 

The Worm in the Apple: How the Teacher Unions Are Destroying American Education
by Peter Brimelow, 320 pages, HarperCollins, (February 2003)

Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling

by John Taylor Gatto, 240 pages, New Society Publishers; (April 2010)