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Microsoft founder Bill Gates teams up with UNESCO
Townhall ^ | November 28k, 2005 | Phyllis Schlafly

Posted on 11/28/2005 9:26:40 PM PST by conservativefreak

On Jan. 22, 1997, President Bill Clinton made a speech to a suburban Chicago audience so friendly that it interrupted him with applause 29 times. One line in his speech, however, was greeted with stony silence: "We can no longer hide behind our love of local control of the schools."

Clinton is gone from the White House, but the federalization laws of his administration - Goals 2000, School-to-Work, and Workforce Investment - are still in place. President George W. Bush, who says the federal government has "a role to play in education," has merely substituted labels more comforting to Republicans: standards, tests, and accountability.

Now we find that the process is no longer just federalization; it's globalization. Who would have guessed that the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization would be positioning itself to design curricula for U.S. schools?

Former President Ronald Reagan withdrew the United States from UNESCO on Dec. 31, 1984, because it was corrupt, anti-Western and a vehicle for far-left propaganda. Unfortunately, President George W. Bush rejoined UNESCO in 2003.

UNESCO's efforts in the 1960s and 1970s to influence U.S. school curricula were unsuccessful. But now UNESCO has found a sugar daddy.

On Nov. 17, 2004, at UNESCO's headquarters in Paris, UNESCO signed a 26-page "Cooperation Agreement" with Microsoft Corp. to develop a "master curriculum (syllabus)" for teacher training in information technologies based on standards, guidelines, benchmarks and assessment techniques. The Agreement states that the syllabus will "form the basis for deriving training content to be delivered to teachers," and "UNESCO will explore how to facilitate content development."
Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates initialed every page in his own handwriting. You can read the agreement at www.eagleforum.org/links, but Microsoft has fixed it so you can't print it out.

Following the signing of the agreement, UNESCO Director General Koichiro Matsuura explained it in a speech. One of its goals, he said, is "fostering Web-based communities of practice including content development and worldwide curricula reflecting UNESCO values."

No doubt that is agreeable to Gates, because the agreement states "Microsoft supports the objectives of UNESCO as stipulated in UNESCO's constitution."

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has helped to finance the National Governors Association plan in Idaho to train students to work in the global economy. Idaho is one of six states selected by the National Governors Association for pilot projects.

The National Governors Report of December 2004, when Virginia's Democratic Gov. Mark Warner was chairman, makes clear that the purpose is to use the public schools to build a planned economy. The report speaks approvingly of "using schools to feed workers into selected corporations," "identifying their state's key industries and needs for skilled workers in order to define a common agenda between their work force and economic development programs," "the integration of education, economic development, and work force development policies," "seamless connections between the components of the (education) system and with the skill demands of the work place," and "connecting work force development to economic needs."

It's hard to see any difference between the 2004 National Governors Association plan and the earlier plans floated when Clinton was president. The plan uses a lot of mumbo jumbo to change the United States from free enterprise to a planned economy, and to turn public school students into a compliant work force for multinational corporations.

The new buzzwords are "career pathways," "education pipeline," "redesigning high schools," "smaller learning communities," and "cluster-based economic development strategies." Recycled buzzwords from prior years include "school-to-work," "work force development system reform," "business-education partnerships," and "meaningful outcome measures."

Six public hearings on the proposals were held in Idaho in October, and 500 people showed up at the Boise hearing. The reaction was overwhelmingly negative from both parents and teachers.

The Idaho Board of Education announced this month that after receiving "hundreds of comments," it has made "modifications to Idaho's plan to redesign high schools and middle schools," but those changes are minimal. The original plan would have required all sixth-grade students to select their learning plan for a specific career pathway and choose "career focused electives" to enter the work force.

Under the revised plan, students will have to do this only by the eighth grade.
But how many eighth-graders do you know who can (or should) map out their career pathway and narrow their education options to meet that single goal?

What about the colossal conceit of politicians and businessmen who think they can predict the jobs that eighth-graders can or will want to fill in their future years? Planned economies are always a failure. Students should be educated to reach their potential- whatever it is.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: billgates; globalistpigs; hangthem; microsoft; phyllisschlafly; schlafly; theyownyou; traitors; un; unesco
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I don't see why she said she couldn't pring out the PDF from Eagle Forum's website, other than that I don't see the reason why Bush wants to put America back under UNESCO.
1 posted on 11/28/2005 9:26:41 PM PST by conservativefreak
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To: conservativefreak
I don't see why she said she couldn't pring out the PDF from Eagle Forum's website, other than that I don't see the reason why Bush wants to put America back under UNESCO.

The important question is who does? With a "new World Order father, a blind eye with the deluge of illegal immigrants, a big hug for Kennedy in the "no child left behind program", a big federal payoff to global pharmacies for more senior and children's mood control drugs, and a big kiss for big oil and their allied tyrannical Sheiks, one has to wonder who is pulling the strings. Global politics makes as much sense as that in Arthur C. Clark's, "Childhood's End" before the world is informed of the Overlords.

2 posted on 11/28/2005 9:39:20 PM PST by LoneRangerMassachusetts (Some say what's good for others, the others make the goods; it's the meddlers against the peddlers)
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To: conservativefreak

Many of the worst examples of today's education system in the United States started out as U.N.E.S.C.O. policies. Many people do not know this.

The problems with U.N.E.S.C.O. policy, the Kyoto Treaty and other negative entities, are that it DOES NOT take upper level federal government agencies to implement their worst tenets.

All you need is a few sympathetic people strategicly placed at education conferences, and before you know it the worst policies imaginable are the ones being implemented into our school systems across the U.S.

Dedicated leftist people in local and state governments devise ways to implement Kyoto protocols in the same manner. Then Republicans on cruise control sign off on it without knowing what they've really signed on to.

The federal government didn't sign on to Kyoto, or participate with U.N.E.S.C.O. for many years. The fact still is, that some of the worst tenets of both these entities have been implemented in schools and local governments.

The socialists are nothing if not dedicated to the destruction of our core values. I don't think most people have any idea how organized and devious they have been, and still are. We are nowhere near as organized in opposition to their efforts, as we should be at a number of levels.


3 posted on 11/28/2005 9:55:59 PM PST by DoughtyOne (MSM: Public support for war waining. 403/3 House vote against pullout vaporizes another lie.)
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To: conservativefreak
Methods of education are best debated among and enforced by governments accountable to their citizens, not by some obscure group who will likely hold different moral and ethical principles than most Americans.

To support UNESCO with funding is one thing, but to subject ourselves to their whims is absurd - it's akin to observing an "international law" to the detriment of our own nation just for the hell of it.

We should refuse to to participate when we've nothing to gain, just as we've always done - just as every nation in the world has always done. Anything else subjects us to tyranny and might well be considered treason.
4 posted on 11/28/2005 9:58:00 PM PST by Jaysun (The plain truth is that I am not a fair man, and don't want to hear both sides.)
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To: MikeinIraq; N3WBI3
Bill Gates squarely in bed with the anti-American, Leftist United Nations.

Can't wait to see ol' Brass Buzzard and Bush2000 explain this one away!

5 posted on 11/28/2005 9:59:45 PM PST by Prime Choice (Mechanical Engineers build weapons. Civil Engineers build targets.)
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To: DoughtyOne

Well said.


6 posted on 11/28/2005 10:00:14 PM PST by Jaysun (The plain truth is that I am not a fair man, and don't want to hear both sides.)
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To: Golden Eagle; Bush2000
Well, well, well...so quiet.

(Even the crickets have noticed your silence.)

7 posted on 11/28/2005 10:01:30 PM PST by Prime Choice (Mechanical Engineers build weapons. Civil Engineers build targets.)
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To: Jaysun

Thank you.


8 posted on 11/28/2005 10:04:14 PM PST by DoughtyOne (MSM: Public support for war waining. 403/3 House vote against pullout vaporizes another lie.)
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To: Prime Choice
Bill Gates squarely in bed with the anti-American, Leftist United Nations.

Apparently, then, so is George Bush.
9 posted on 11/28/2005 10:10:44 PM PST by birbear (Admit it. you clicked on the "I have already previewed" button without actually previewing the post.)
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To: birbear

And that is supposed to make it okay?


10 posted on 11/28/2005 10:12:47 PM PST by Prime Choice (Mechanical Engineers build weapons. Civil Engineers build targets.)
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To: Prime Choice

I'm just saying... if we're gonna call one person "leftist, anti American", let's call the whole bunch of them "leftist, anti Americans."


11 posted on 11/28/2005 10:15:01 PM PST by birbear (Admit it. you clicked on the "I have already previewed" button without actually previewing the post.)
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I'm just saying... if we're gonna call one person "leftist, anti American", let's call the whole bunch of them "leftist, anti Americans."

I based it on more than one element.

For example, I'm sure GWB didn't donate to John Kerry's campaign fund, and I'm sure GWB doesn't vote Democrat.

Sheesh...

12 posted on 11/28/2005 10:17:33 PM PST by Prime Choice (Mechanical Engineers build weapons. Civil Engineers build targets.)
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To: Prime Choice

THe excuse or ignore association with the UN population programs and planned parenthood... why would this be any different..


13 posted on 11/28/2005 10:37:33 PM PST by N3WBI3 (If SCO wants to go fishing they should buy a permit and find a lake like the rest of us..)
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To: Prime Choice

The real story here is when will conservatives wake up and smell what GWB and the Free Traitors are shoveling..


14 posted on 11/28/2005 10:38:37 PM PST by N3WBI3 (If SCO wants to go fishing they should buy a permit and find a lake like the rest of us..)
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To: conservativefreak
Former President Ronald Reagan withdrew the United States from UNESCO on Dec. 31, 1984, because it was corrupt, anti-Western and a vehicle for far-left propaganda. Unfortunately, President George W. Bush rejoined UNESCO in 2003.

Ol' George Jr. is just full of good things for the USA, isn't he? Guess he doesn't have enough to keep himself occupied.

15 posted on 11/28/2005 10:46:05 PM PST by Hank Rearden (Never allow anyone who could only get a government job attempt to tell you how to run your life.)
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To: conservativefreak
On Nov. 17, 2004, at UNESCO's headquarters in Paris, UNESCO signed a 26-page "Cooperation Agreement" with Microsoft Corp. to develop a "master curriculum (syllabus)" for teacher training in information technologies based on standards, guidelines, benchmarks and assessment techniques. The Agreement states that the syllabus will "form the basis for deriving training content to be delivered to teachers," and "UNESCO will explore how to facilitate content development." Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates initialed every page in his own handwriting. You can read the agreement at www.eagleforum.org/links, but Microsoft has fixed it so you can't print it out.

I was sent and reviewed some of the CA curricula in the late 90s for the "global village school". No one would cover it. It had much to do with Al Gore's "internet in every classroom" agenda.

16 posted on 11/29/2005 5:10:14 AM PST by Alia
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To: Prime Choice

Obviously Gates is only following Bush's lead on this. As for the UN, they're completely committed to open source software, and even have an agency to promote it worldwide.

http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3400071

Time for you to rail against that, unless you already knew and were ignoring it.


17 posted on 11/29/2005 5:34:03 AM PST by Golden Eagle
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To: Golden Eagle
Obviously Gates is only following Bush's lead on this.

Weaseling out, as usual. *LOL*

18 posted on 11/29/2005 6:28:14 PM PST by Prime Choice (Mechanical Engineers build weapons. Civil Engineers build targets.)
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To: Prime Choice

weaseling out is not even mentioning something, like the UN open source agency


19 posted on 11/29/2005 8:13:54 PM PST by Golden Eagle
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To: Golden Eagle
And how you just loved to weasel out that your boy Bill is hot to trot for the U.N.

Keep wiggling, weasel.

20 posted on 11/29/2005 8:15:57 PM PST by Prime Choice (Mechanical Engineers build weapons. Civil Engineers build targets.)
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