Posted on 01/24/2004 5:38:50 AM PST by George Frm Br00klyn Park
WorldNetDaily / Commentary
Henry Lamb
U.N. influence in U.S. schools
Posted: January 24, 2004
1:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com
Since its beginning, the United Nations Education, Science and Cultural Organization has been trying to impose an international curriculum to prepare students for world government. More than 500 U.S. schools are now using the International Baccalaureate program, and the Department of Education has just awarded a $1.2 million grant to expand the program in middle schools in Arizona, Massachusetts and New York.
In one of its first efforts in 1949, the UNESCO textbook, titled "Toward World Understanding," used to teach teachers what to teach, said:
"As long as the child breathes the poisoned air of nationalism, education in world-mindedness can produce only rather precarious results. As we have pointed out, it is frequently the family that infects the child with extreme nationalism."
In the 1960s, Dr. Robert Muller, U.N. deputy secretary-general, prepared a "World Core Curriculum." Its first goal:
"Assisting the child in becoming an integrated individual who can deal with personal experience while seeing himself as a part of 'the greater whole.' In other words, promote growth of the group idea, so that group good, group understanding, group interrelations and group goodwill replace all limited, self-centered objectives, leading to group consciousness."
The U.N.'s global education program took a major step in 1968, when UNESCO provided the funding to create the International Baccalaureate Organization, a non-government organization, in Geneva, Switzerland. The IBO is now providing the curriculum for 33,000 teachers in nearly 1,500 schools around the world, 55 of which are middle schools in the Washington D.C. area.
UNESCO says the IB curriculum promotes human rights, social justice, sustainable development, population, health, environmental and immigration concerns.
"We're living on a planet that is becoming exhausted," says George Walker, IB's director-general in Geneva. "The program remains committed to changing children's values so they think globally, rather than in parochial national terms from their own country's viewpoint."
Jeanne Geiger, an outspoken critic of the program in Reston, Va., wrote to a local newspaper: "Administrators do not tell you that the current IB program for ages 3 through grade 12 promotes socialism, disarmament, radical environmentalism and moral relativism, while attempting to undermine Christian religious values and national sovereignty."
The IB program was dropped at Woodson High School in Fairfax, Va., when critical parents told local school officials that the best universities in Virginia did not give full credit for the IB program.
The goals and methods of the IB program reach much further than the 502 U.S. schools now officially enrolled. The Center for Civic Education, which, by law, writes the curriculum for civics education in the United States, says:
"In the past century, the civic mission of schools was education for democracy in a sovereign state. In this century, by contrast, education will become everywhere more global. And we ought to improve our curricular frameworks and standards for a world transformed by globally accepted and internationally transcendent principles."
This global influence can be clearly seen in the new mission for the National Curriculum Standards for Social Studies:
"The United States and its democracy are constantly evolving and in continuous need of citizens who can adapt to meet the changing circumstances. Meeting that need is the mission of social studies. Students should be helped to construct a pluralist perspective based on diversity [and] should be helped to construct a global perspective."
A critical review of "We the People; the Citizen and the Constitution," a civics textbook written by the Center for Civics Education, reveals that the teaching of historical facts is replaced with teaching attitudes and values about multi-culturalism and world-mindedness. A review of science, and even math texts, reveals that sustainable development, environmental protection and social justice dominate the material children are taught.
No longer are American children learning about the structure of a federal republic compared to a parliamentary democracy. No longer are children learning the difference between capitalism and socialism. No longer are children being taught why the United States became the most powerful economic engine the world has ever known.
Instead, they are being taught that with less than 5 percent of the world's population, the U.S. uses 25 percent of the world's resources and produces 25 percent of the world's pollution. They are being taught that the U.S. is the No. 1 terrorist nation. They are being taught that the rest of the world is mired in poverty because of the greedy capitalists in the United States.
The effectiveness of generations of this U.N. globalist curriculum is evidenced by many of the talking heads interviewed on the nightly news, and even by some of the presidential hopefuls.
Henry Lamb is the executive vice president of the Environmental Conservation Organization and chairman of Sovereignty International.THIS article at WND
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UNESCO says the IB curriculum promotes human rights, social justice, sustainable development, population, health, environmental and immigration concerns.All, A few years ago, I read that one of the main tenents of the UN "curriculum" was to teach children that "perception" is as important as factual information when making decisions. How many have heard that "perception is reality" coming from the "talking heads"? Peace and love, George.
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Guys, In YOUR neighborhood TODAY!!! Peace and love, George.
The exact opposite of the American tradition of individualism.
Basically, collectivism.
Yes we must have 'the chihreen' all thinking globally rather than patriotically or loyalty to their native lands...
I know.... flood the nation with illegal aliens who have no loyalty to the host country...make them
citizens (if not now than later after we change administrations)...and feed their children the
globalist line...being foreigners with no loyalty they should be pushovers...give them
the right to vote and they will vote out any politicians who are patriots (if there are any)...
George Walker globalist eh?...that name sounds familiar
DI, A few years ago, the "new" superintendent of Baltimore County, Md. Schools, {The "old" one was "thrown out" on his ear with a gargantuan contract buyout because of among other things implementing "inclusion" of disabled and disfunctional students by "mainstreaming" them}, stated that as one of his first priorities that the schools would "Bring all of the fourth graders out of grade at the same level in four years." For this to POSSIBLY happen, that "level" would HAVE to be at "the lowest common denominator". Thus, it is IMPERATIVE that that "denominator" be brought up and made the "standard" for "no child left behind".
What passes for education today is pure unadulterated EVIL!!!! I have been accused of "overusing" the word evil in this instance, but, I can find NO other word, phrase, or collection of words {long or short} that better fits the absolute deliberate destruction of education in this country. As chronicled in Charlotte Iserbyt's "The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America". {Read the Reviews, even the disparaging ones, and you might understand a little better the demonizing that goes on against the truth about education.} And, when we put more money into education, it DOES change. IT GETS WORSE!!! And, George Bush and Ted Kennedy, and other elitists are happy. Money is NOT the problem!! Peace and love, George.
I don't know if they are related, but George Herbert Walker was a founding member of the Federal Reserve and a 33° Mason from St. Louis.
DM, Glad to hear it. You must be one of the exceptions. But, the idea that "parents are responsible' is pure hogwash. Parents have NOTHING to do with policies set that have facillitated this evil. In fact, whenever most parents really become involved, they find that they are needed as helpers. And any common sense suggestions to remedy problems are met with derision and "We know better". Parents are NOT in the schools where chaos prevails. Teachers and their administrators are. And, either they are failing miserably, or succeeding. Take your pick. Folks in Florida can't EVEN punch ballots correctly. LOL. Peace and love, George.
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