Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt was once a senior policy advisor in the Office of Educational Research and Improvement at the U.S. Department of Education. she was also a co-founder of Guardians of Education for Maine, an educational activism group. Today she promotes a conspiracist view of educational problems that attributes American anti-intellectualism to the the evil machinations of former Soviet KGB agents.[1] If you hear the sound of hoofbeats in Central Park, then surely it must be the sound of... former Soviet KGB agents dressed up as zebras. https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Charlotte_Thomson_Iserbyt
The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America: A Chronological Paper Trail
I read (or started to read) the Deliberate Dumbing Down of America by Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt because a homeschooling association emailed me the free pdf (which is available on the interwebs). I gotta stop reading these books that homeschoolers love. It’s like they are trying to talk me out of homeschooling.
I decided to read this one only because I thought she couldn’t really mean that the decline of America’s education system was deliberate. That would be crazy, right? Well, it is crazy. It is chalk full of crazy.
My first clue that I probably wasn’t going to finish this book was in the foreward: “American social engineers have systematically gone about destroying the intellect of millions of American children for the purpose of leading the American people into a socialist world government controlled by behavioral and social scientist.” Really? If only this could be satirical, that sentence would be okay. But since it was intentional, it is just sad.
And then in her preface, the author goes on and on about the socialist/fascist agenda, and their intentions to create a global workforce… blah, blah, blah. It is basically comes off as the ramblings of an incredibly paranoid person. I’m not saying that Iserbyt is that person, just that it this book doesn’t rule that out.
The worst part about this book, and the reason that I didn’t finish, is that it actually contains more fiction than it does fact. Each chapter takes on a decade of “history” where she lists her evidence. It is almost completely uncited (there is a whole lot of “this person said blah, blah, blah” without any proof that anyone said anything like it), and what is cited is often clearly taken out of context. This kind of “source material” just makes me angry. I won’t go so far as to say its all a bunch of lies, because I think she believes the case she is making. But, there is no proof any of it is true.
Look, I think there is plenty wrong with the public school system in America. That is the reason I’m considering homeschooling my children. But this? This conspiracy business just makes homeschoolers look like a bunch of wackadoodles.
Other people have said this was a terrifying read because of what it revealed. The only scary thing about this book, to me, is that there are people who believe it. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/406765710
I'm not suggesting that all conspiracy theories are total hogwash, just that most are mostly bad for the digestion. Including those involving that widely favored group the ILLuminati.
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Former State Dept Employee and Senior Reagan Advisor Talks Skull & Bones, Illuminati Agenda
Truth is Treason , Benzinga Contributor
June 16, 2011 12:24am
Sources: Wiki, YouTube, G. Edward Griffin, C. Iserbyt and Reece Committee
Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt is an American freelance writer, former Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI), U.S. Department of Education during the first term of U.S. President Ronald Reagan, and staff employee of the US State Department (South Africa, Belgium, South Korea).[1][2] She was born circa 1930. Her father and grandfather were Yale University graduates and members of the Skull and Bones secret society.
She is known for writing the book The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America that itemizes changes gradually brought into the American public education system that attempt to both eliminate the influences of a child's parents (religion, morals, national patriotism), and mold the child into a member of the proletariat supposedly in preparation for a socialist-collectivist world of the future. She documents the changes (as originating from the plans formulated primarily by the Andrew Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Education, Rockefeller General Education Board), and the psychological methods used to implement and effect the changes.
In an interview[2] concerning secret societies and the elite agenda she disclosed that in the early 1980s she had a chance to meet with Norman Dodd who had been the chief investigator for the United States House Select Committee to Investigate Tax-Exempt Foundations and Comparable Organizations commonly known as the B. Carroll Reece Committee. Dodd had stated that members of a ‘network' of individuals including Carnegie had wanted to bring about world peace by means of rapid changes in society brought about by involving the profane citizens in various wars and military conflicts. Rowan Gaither, the president of the Ford Foundation at the time of the Reece Committee investigation, had told Dodd that directives originating from the US President had been in effect compelling various related foundations to direct their funding into bringing about the comfortable merger of the USA with the Soviet Union.
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