For over a year now, Americans have been up in arms
over the Obama administration’s unconstitutional efforts to bribe and bludgeon
state governments into surrendering control over K-12 education through the controversial
so-called “Common Core” national standards — and the
outrage is still growing. A peek beneath the surface, however, reveals that the
nationalization of American schools is actually just one component of a much
broader global agenda being pushed by the Obama administration, the United
Nations, Bill Gates, and others: the globalization of education.
In fact, just this week, an invitation-only conference
hosted by former Florida Governor and pro-Common Core ringleader Jeb Bush
entitled “Globalization of Higher Education” took place in Texas. Among the
attendees: Hillary Clinton, U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan, former World
Bank President Robert Zoellick, UNESCO officials, university presidents, and
more. While higher
education appears to be the next target of reformers,
the globalization of K-12 schooling is on the verge of completion — at least if
the American people do not rise up and stop it.
For decades now, the globalists at UNESCO and other UN
outfits have been openly plotting to impose what they sometimes refer to as the
“World Core Curriculum” on all of
humanity. According to the agency, it is all
linked to UN
Agenda 21. In addition to
gathering up unprecedented amounts of data on everyone,
the global “education reform” movement is essentially seeking to instill
radical new values in children — turning them into “global citizens” with views
inherently at odds with Biblical Christianity — to facilitate the total
regimentation of human society. Countless programs and
initiatives such as “Education for All” are working toward that goal.
Despite the virtual media blackout, none of it is much
of a secret — even in the United States. In fact, Obama’s Education Secretary
Arne Duncan even boasts openly that the U.S. Department of Education he leads
is “cooperating” with groups such as the United Nations, often dubbed a
“dictators’ club,” to “improve” education in America. In a 2010 speech to UNESCO, Duncan even
referred to the UN “education” agency as one of the administration’s “global
partners” in the effort to globalize schooling as part of the “cradle-to-career
education agenda.”
“Today, education is a global public good
unconstrained by national boundaries.... It is no surprise that economic
interdependence brings new global challenges and educational demands,” Duncan
told the globalist UN bureaucrats, boasting of the billions of dollars U.S.
taxpayers were being forced to send foreign governments and institutions for
“educational reform” abroad. “Our goal for the coming year will be to work
closely with global partners, including UNESCO, to promote qualitative
improvements and system-strengthening.”
The “education” agenda, of course, has less to do with
actually educating children and more to do with promoting globalist political
goals and values through indoctrination at school. “Education is still the key
to eliminating gender inequities, to reducing poverty, to creating a
sustainable planet, and to fostering peace,” Duncan continued, with “sustainability”
being UN-speak for central planning and global government.
Quoting former
South African President Nelson Mandela, Duncan noted
that education “is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the
world.”
Unsurprisingly, billionaire UN devotee and
population-control zealot Bill Gates — the primary financier of all
things Common Core, other than U.S. taxpayers via the federal government — is
deeply intertwined with the planetary effort. According to the latest
estimates, while his own children attend an elite non-Common Core private
school, the Microsoft founder has poured more than $2 billion into creating and
promoting the dubious national standards for everyone else. Together with
UNESCO, though, Gates is determined to impose the globalist vision of education
on children worldwide.
In 2004, for example, on behalf of Microsoft, Gates
personally signed a “Cooperation Agreement” with UNESCO to accelerate the
globalization of education through information technology and communication.
“Together, UNESCO and Microsoft aspire for there to be a quantum leap in the
quality of courses and in accelerating their uptake by educationalists ...
through the availability of standards, guidelines or benchmarks,” the agreement
explains, calling for the creation of a “master curriculum (Syllabus).” “UNESCO
will explore how to facilitate content development,” the document states.
After signing the agreement, as reported by Eagle
Forum chief Phyllis Schlafly in 2005, UNESCO Director General Koichiro Matsuura
gave a speech offering more insight into the plot. Among the goals of the
partnership, the UN agency boss explained: “fostering web-based communities of
practice including content development and worldwide curricula reflecting
UNESCO values.” As the document itself explains, “Microsoft supports the
objectives of UNESCO as stipulated in UNESCO's Constitution.” (For more on
UNESCO values, see “Common
Core and UN Agenda 21: Mass Producing Green Global Serfs.”)
It may or may not be a surprise to many Americans to
learn that in a 2011 document about an advanced training program produced by
UNESCO’s International Institute for Educational Planning, the would-be global
Department of Education, even uses the term “Common Core.” The course outline,
which boasts that the UN institute has trained more than 1,500 “education
planners and managers” from around the world, adds under the Common Core
header: “Educational planners and managers need insight into the effects of demographic
shifts, globalization, and social and political change on education.”
“The fourth part of the course presents the main
development frameworks, including the ‘new’ international commitments as part
of Education for All/ Fast Track Initiative, Poverty Reduction, Millennium
Development Goals, and discusses their impact on the role and
methods/instruments of educational planning,” continues the document, which
essentially outlines the training program being used to put legions of
globalized education bureaucrats devoted to UNESCO’s vision in key positions
worldwide.
UNESCO’s vision for a truly global education regime
under the “World Core Curriculum” goes back decades, too, as its officials
openly admit. “In the middle of my life I discovered that the only true,
objective education I had received was from the United Nations where the earth,
humanity, our place in time and the worth of the human being were the
overriding concerns,” wrote the late Robert Muller, former UN assistant
secretary general and the architect of the “World Core Curriculum” plot. “So at
the request of educators I wrote the World Core Curriculum, the product of the
United Nations, the meta-organism of human and planetary evolution.”
He described his planetary Common Core-like scheme as
“a curriculum of our universal knowledge which should be taught in all schools
of Earth.” One of his chief inspirations, he said, was former UN
Secretary-General U Thant, a Marxist radical, whom Muller quotes as saying:
“The world will not change and find peace, if there is not a new education.”
Another one of Muller’s major inspirations was UN apparatchik and occultist
Alice Bailey, who founded the Lucis Trust (formerly Lucifer Publishing Company)
and claimed to channel spirits.
UNESCO’s use of the term “Common Core,” too, goes back
decades. In 1984, for example — the same year President Ronald Reagan withdrew
U.S. participation from the UN agency — the outfit released a 51-page document
entitled “A Methodological Guide to the Application of the Notion of Common
Core in the Training of Various Categories of Educational Personnel.” That
scheme was aimed at training teachers worldwide using the same standards, so
that they, in turn, could fan out across the globe to “educate” students all over
the world.
Even as far back as the late 1940s, UNESCO was
actively promoting the use of education as a means to achieve what its first
Secretary General, Julian Huxley, described as “political unification in some
sort of world government,” which he claimed was “necessary.” In a 1949 pamphlet
on using the classroom to promote “world understanding,” UNESCO said: “As long
as the child breathes the poisoned air of nationalism, education in
world-mindedness can only produce precarious results.” So, to deal with that,
schools should use various means to “combat family attitudes.”
Critics and analysts have slowly started taking
notice. “Some have decried Common Core as the nationalization of American
education. Far more dangerous, however, is the globalism of Common Core that
demotes American values, undermines American constitutional principles and
detaches students from their families and faith,” observed Catholic journalist
and public speaker Mary Jo Anderson in a piece for Crisis magazine. “Common Core is simply the
newest attempt in the decades-old battle (Outcome Based Education, Goals 2000)
to impose a U.N. globalist worldview aimed at ‘peace,’ sustainability and
economic stability at the expense of freedom.”
Indeed, Common Core represents merely the culmination
of decades of quiet efforts by the globalist education establishment to foist
its new values for its envisioned new society on the American people. In 1994,
for example, Democrat President Bill Clinton signed “The Goals 2000: Educate
America Act” foisting “National Standards” on schools across America. Then,
Republican President George W. Bush signed the “No Child Left Behind Act”
developing national “accountability” schemes to ensure that government schools
were teaching what the federal government demanded.
Before the 1960s, of course, the federal government
had virtually no role whatsoever in American education. The Constitution
specifically prohibits it by not granting any power over education to the
national government, and thus, reserving that sphere for the states or the
people. Today, however, schools are largely operating under federal control,
despite the rhetoric, as they comply with federal mandates to keep the federal
funds flowing. Common Core is merely the next step — but almost certainly close
to the end game.
Even before UNESCO came on the scene, tyrants and
would-be tyrants always understood that controlling education — and the minds
of the youth, by extension — was the key to power. From Marx and Stalin to
Hitler, all of them knew corrupting children was their path to total
domination. Today, Americans are faced with powerful globalist forces
determined to shape the views and minds of their children through globalized
“education.” And the outcome of this battle will almost certainly determine the
future course of humanity.
Source:http://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/education/item/17925-un-obama-and-gates-are-globalizing-education-via-common-core?utm_source=Newsletter
Wednesday,
26 March 2014
Alex Newman is a correspondent for The New American,
covering economics, education, politics, and more. He can be reached at anewman@thenewamerican.com
Follow him on Twitter @ALEXNEWMAN_JOU.
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