There is a great controversy today
over the current educational reform movement known as Common Core (CC). Many
people have offered specific criticisms of the movement, but they generally
look at CC in isolation. However, it is important to understand the back ground
of CC, and a good starting point for that begins with the Illuminati, which
began on May 1, 1776.
The fundamental purpose of the
Illuminati was to do away with existing authority (e.g., monarchical,
religious, etc.) and adopt the principle of its founder, Adam Weishaupt, which
was that they, the Illuminati or Enlightened, knew what was best for people.
The leaders of CC today also believe they know, even better than parents, what
is best in education for children in the United States. Relevant to education,
certain members of the Illuminati became tutors to princes, who would then
become czars, kings, etc. (e.g., Alexander I of Russia) and be under the
influence of the Illuminati.
In terms of what we know today as
elementary and secondary education, Illuminati member Johann Heinrich
Pestalozzi (a Swiss, code-named Alfred) had the greatest influence. According
to Will Monroe's HISTORY OF THE PESTALOZZIAN METHOD IN THE UNITED STATES
(1907), the educational ideas of Pestalozzi began to be printed in journals and
textbooks in the United States in 1806. They began to be used in some school
systems, especially in New England where they were viewed favorably be the
intelligentsia of Horace Mann's day. This was the first half of the 1800s, and
Mann became known as the "Father of the American Public Education."
Utopian Socialist Robert Owen
visited Pestalozzi at Yverdon, Switzerland in 1818, and applied the
Illuminist's educational principles in Britain and America. In 1825, Owen
established the first commune in the United States in New Harmony, Indiana.
Joining Owen in 1828 was Frances Wright (formerly Madame Francoise D'Arusmont
from France) who, with Owen's son Robert Dale Owen and Orestes Brownson, formed
the Workingmen's Party in New York.
According
to A CONCISE HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC (vol. 1) by Samuel Morison, Henry
Steele Commager, and William Leuchtenburg, Frances Wright became "a
lecture-platform apostle of...a system which she called 'National, Rational,
Republican Education, Free for All, at the Expense of All, Conducted under the
Guardianship of the State,' apart from the contaminating influence of
parents."
After
Brownson became a Christian, he revealed in THE WORKS OF ORESTES BROWNSON (20
volumes) that their plan in establishing their political party was as follows:
"The great object was to get rid of Christianity, and to convert our
churches into halls of science. The plan was not to make open attacks upon
religion, although we might belabor the clergy and bring them into contempt
where we could; but to establish a system of state---we said
national---schools, from which all religion was to be excluded, in which
nothing was to be taught except such knowledge as is verifiable by the senses,
and to which all parents were to be compelled by law to send their children.
Our complete plan was to take the children from their parents at the age of 12
or 18 months, and to have them nursed, fed, clothed, and trained in these
schools at the public expense; but at any rate, we were to have godless schools
for all the children of the country....The plan has been successfully
pursued...,and the whole action of the country on the subject has taken the
direction we sought to give it. One of the principal movers of the scheme had
no mean share in organizing the Smithsonian Institute."
Brownson further revealed that the
connection between the Workingmen's Party, Robert Owen (father of Robert Dale
Owen), Pestalozzi and Horace Mann is very important. In HORACE MANN:
EDUCATIONAL STATESMAN, Heidelberg College (Ohio) Prof. E.I.F. Williams wrote:
"The 'workingmen's movement' was an organization of the liberals in
opposition to the conservative order....Its members were the radical wing of
the Jacksonian democracy. In 1831 a large convention (of the Workingmen's
Party) made up of farmers and workmen was held in Boston....Leaders such as
Horace Mann (in Massachusetts)...urged their cause. Education was advanced as
the surest and best method of advancing their aspirations....Labor leaders were
enthusiastic about education in tax-supported schools....Education soon took
first place among the reforms they demanded. They urged the necessity of an
'equal, universal, republican system of education.'...Reform was the watch-word
of the day....More than two hundred communists Utopias were established....For
two or three decades, they centered the attention of the country on socialistic
and communistic schemes for human betterment. One of the most famous of the
communities was established at New Harmony, Indiana by Robert Owen."
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