He alone, who owns the youth, gains the Future! Satan's vices are always the same, repackaged in bright new "PC" wrapping, and we fall for them every time. The above quote was from Adolf Hitler in his 1935 speech at Reichsparteitag. Hitler knew that in order to ensure the ingraining and survival of a particular philosophy on a culture; you must completely indoctrinate the children to your view. It seems this same mindset is now the driving force behind the new move towards Global Education. The following is a part of a news story from The Washington Times.
Learning globally
By George Archibald
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
The Bush administration has begun issuing grants to help spread a United Nations-sponsored school program that aims to become a "universal curriculum" for teaching global citizenship, peace studies and equality of world cultures.
The goal is to devise a curriculum to teach "a set of culturally neutral universal values to which all people aspire," based on human rights, equality of the sexes and "open-mindedness to change and obligation to environmental protection and sustainable development."
The U.S. Education Department has issued its first $1.2 million grant to implement the European-based International Baccalaureate (IB) program in middle schools that are to become "feeder schools" for the IB's high school diploma program in low-income school districts.
"We are ever mindful of the lessons of September 11, one of which is that all future measures of a rigorous K-12 education must include a solid grounding in other cultures, other languages and other histories," Education Secretary Rod Paige said a year ago as he announced new global-education initiatives in U.S. schools.
"In other words, we need to put the 'world' back into 'world-class' education," he said.
Now let's not be mistaken, this Global Curriculum the President is pushing through the Department of Education has nothing to do with raising the nation's failing test scores. This program is geared toward teaching (or indoctrinating, I would prefer to say), our children with so-called "universal values". Hitler used the same approach when attempting to mold the young German minds to his fascist ideology. I work in the education field, so I am well aware of the anti-Christian sentiments held by many. I don't want anyone in the school system teaching my own children any of their PC values that may go against their Christian upbringing. It is not their place to do so.
I ran across an article by a very articulate sixteen year old at the time named Ashley, called Public Schools and What You're Up Against. In the article, she describes her experiences as a Christian student in the public schools, and the battles she endured in the system. It is well worth the read. If the schools are already attempting to force their values on children now, how much more will they with the establishment of this Global curriculum?
Teach my children to read and write and leave the teaching of values to me!!!!