[Carry_Okie]

This is the standard they will apply:Every child in America entering school at the age of five is insane because he comes to school with certain allegiances toward our Founding Fathers, toward his parents, toward a belief in a supernatural being, toward the sovereignty of this nation as a separate entity… It’s up to you teachers to make all of these sick children well by creating the international children of the future. ~Dr. Chester M. Pierce, Professor of Education and Psychiatry, Medicine and Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, address to the Association for Childhood Education International in Denver (1972)

There you go.

[Paladin2]

"Every child in America entering school at the age of five is insane because he comes to school with certain allegiances toward our Founding Fathers, toward his parents, toward a belief in a supernatural being, toward the sovereignty of this nation as a separate entity… It’s up to you teachers to make all of these sick children well by creating the international children of the future. ~Dr. Chester M. Pierce, Professor of Education and Psychiatry, Medicine and Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, address to the Association for Childhood Education International in Denver (1972)"

That's outrageous.

Harvard is Evil.

[Maceman]

That is an extraordinary quote. Snopes doesn’t have anything about it.

Do you have a source that can verify that this person actually exists/existed and that he actually said this?

[boxlunch]

This is what I got from just plugging the quote into a browser. It’s all over the place on the web and attributed to him at this speech. Whether or not he actually said it I don’t know.

http://www.zoominfo.com/p/Chester-Pierce/4293036

www.freeworldalliance.com , 24 May 2002 [cached]
April 1972 - In his keynote address to the Association for Childhood Education International, Chester M. Pierce, Professor of Education and Psychiatry in the Faculty of Medicine at Harvard University, proclaims: “Every child in America entering school at the age of five is insane because he comes to school with certain allegiances toward our founding fathers, toward his parents, toward a belief in a supernatural being....

[jurroppi1]

It’s unreal that people are this unabashedly vocal about their intentions and that nearly no one shows an interest in outing them to the general public.

First I had seen what you just posted.

[uncommonsense]

Wow, that's hard core - not surprised it came out of Harvard..

Teachers must change attitudes and values of students.