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Episode 5: America’s Education Past and Future

Episode 5: America’s Education Past and Future

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 As we finish up with the history of American education and move to the present and then look to the future, I want to pause and address a question I am sure you are asking. How did I and others not see this? How did we not connect the dots before? The WCP was a pile of rubble by 1954 and in its place was the APP (American Progressive Paideia. Today, anyone under the age of 70 is a product of the APP educational system. If you look at each generation living today, you will find the younger the generation, the more liberal and left leaning they are. As I pointed out in episode four, the progressives not only took control of public schools and mandated all children attend, but they also have control over college teacher accreditation programs and textbook companies. This means they control the entire pipeline and every aspect of our education, from kindergarten to college (even if you are not in college to be a teacher). With the use of our education system, they have created a factory line of people who think, act, and vote the way they desire. Let us finish tracing this progressive line in history and discover what APP really is and how it morphed into CMP (Cultural Marxist Paideia). In the 1960s, we saw the product of this new progressive paideia. Our textbooks paint the Warren Court as having led the charge against racial discrimination, which was a noble pursuit. However, what most people miss because curriculum companies leave it out or twist to sound good, is that the Warren Court was the most liberal Supreme Court in American history. Pete and David give a full explanation in their book Battle for the American Mind starting on page 102. Here is a snippet: This Court pioneered the extraconstitutional approach—an approach born of critical theory’s “structural criticism.” To the progressive Warren Court, founding documents were an impediment to progress. The Warren Court saw the Constitution as a guideline; it was living, not law. In many ways, the courts of the 1960s were simply finishing the work Progressives had begun at the beginning of the century. (Battle for the American Mind, page 103)The Supreme court ruling in the Engel v. Vitale case in 1962 and the Abbington School District v. Schempp in 1963 prohibited prayer and Bible reading in schools, cutting the pillars of religion and morality out of our education system. Add to that the 1965 ruling in Reed v. Van Hoven, where courts ruled it, was unconstitutional for students to pray over their lunch.Within a matter of four short years, nine justices fundamentally changed our educational system forever. (Battle for the American Mind, page 103)Let us back up to 1923 and look at the Frankfurt School in Frankfurt, Germany. It resided at the Institution for Social Research, which is known today as the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory. Yes, you heard that correct. There was a critical theory before it morphed into the critical race theory of today.This school was founded by a Marxist law professor. The first director was Max Horkheimer. The Frankfurt School was focused on radical social change—criticism of all things Western—using social, economic, cultural, political, and educational institutions. (Battle for the American Mind, page 110)In 1935, after the rise of Hitler, scholars from the Frankfurt School fled to New York, where they became faculty members of Columbia University where John Dewey had just retired five years earlier. Horkheimer was offered a formal position at the university and allowed to establish his “Institute”.Exiled Marxists were out in the open and holding court in America’s most prestigious teachers’ college. (Battle for the American Mind, page 111) The Frankfurt School disguised their critical theory as social science. Science is known as objectively observing scientific laws in nature. Applying this to human behavior does not work because you cannot generalize off lived experience. To counter this flaw, they explained away certain human realities based on biases and power structures in the Western civilization. They take it further by saying social scientists cannot be technical observers and problems solvers, but instead self-reflective explorers. This is where ideas like “check your privilege” and “implicit bias” come from. It is not enough to study history or civics; the student must emphasize their own current and historical contribution to the power structure that leftists deem evil at the moment. As such, in keeping with the Marxist tradition, critical theorists insist that “social science” cannot be content to describe and explain the world, but instead should emancipate students to understand their role in contributing to oppression, injustice, and ...

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