The Empire Strikes Back

The American Education Empire has abandoned education in favor of using children to re-engineer American society in their own image.

Do you know who John Dewey was?

Dewey is the most important force in American education that nobody outside the education establishment knows about.

In his 1897 book, My Pedagogic Creed, Dewey wrote:

“I believe that the community’s duty to education is, therefore, its paramount moral duty. By law and punishment, by social agitation and discussion, society can regulate and form itself in a more or less haphazard and chance way. But through education society can formulate its own purposes, can organize its own means and resources, and thus shape itself with definiteness and economy in the direction in which it wishes to move.”

Dewey is largely seen as the father of the American public school system.

He was also communist.

He did write an essay titled "Why I Am Not A Communist" in 1934 as a result of what he learned during his chairmanship of the Dewey Commission, which reviewed the Moscow show trial of Leon Trotsky - finding Trotsky innocent.

Shouldn't have been a surprise - the Moscow trial was a farce with a conviction pre-ordained by Stalin.

But Dewey's missive was more of a disagreement with big "C" communism, essentially the Stalin brand of communism, rather than little "c" communism, in which Dewey had engaged for his entire adult life.

Dewey's true leanings have been effectively hidden behind the fact he is one of the most influential forces in the history of American public education, if not THE most influential.

Paul Kengor, author and professor at Grove City College, writing in American Spectator noted:

"...that Dewey and the Bolsheviks formed a mutual admiration society in the 1920s, and specifically on educational policy, and his educational ideas in particular. They loved his work, and he was flattered by their appreciation. That both sides saw such a perfect fit is not good news for our educators who have been busy implementing Dewey in America for 100 years now — or, at least, it wouldn’t be good news if they actually knew about it."

But that willful ignorance within the teaching academe isn't unique. Parents of children forced into America's mandatory public education scheme are completely oblivious to the genesis of the system and the power it holds over their children.

For a century, American have been fed the mantra "education is good", and while that is generally true, it doesn't mean that ALL education is good or can even be classified as “education”. As Dewey found out about communism, there is a branded, corporate version, one separate and apart from the basic lower-case philosophy. America is suffering the capital “E” Education, the corporate version.

The capital “E” American education establishment is interested in indoctrination, inculcation, and social engineering, not in the transfer of knowledge. The overall performance of our schools prove that more time is spent on sexualizing elementary kids than teaching them math, English and history.

Dewey's goal for the public school system was not an educated populace, it was to shape society. You won't learn this unless you study Dewey, who in his own words, clearly states this purpose.

Every organization takes on the personality of its leadership. What any organization does is a reflection of the priorities of that leadership and the beliefs they hold. Dewey’s system is a perfect tool for the indoctrination of children.

Parents need to know what these beliefs are and who and what organizations are behind them.

One of the most prominent social engineering forces within the public school system is the Human Rights Campaign or the HRC.

HRC is front and center in LGBTQ advocacy and has penetrated the teacher’s unions and the public school system to a degree that is surprising to even a cynic like me. If you look at the professionally made signs at school protests and educational events, you will see a number of them feature the HRC logo.

Founded in 1980 (known as the Human Rights Campaign Fund until 1995), the HRC in its earliest days focused chiefly on contributing money to LGBTQ-friendly politicians. Today, it is the largest and most influential LGBTQ lobbying organization in the U.S. Spending $28 million last year, HRC is a lobbying organization with close ties to the Democratic Party, supporting political candidates (endorsing Bill Clinton and Barack Obama) and legislation to advance the LBTQ agenda. Over the years, the HRC has received financial support from philanthropies such as the Ford Foundation, George Soros‘ Open Society Foundation, and the Tides Foundation – all of which have championed radical changes in American society.

As part of their lobbying efforts, the HRC has historically opposed both traditional marriage and religion in schools. In 2015, the HRC requested that the Department of Education list publicly the names of every U.S. religious college that had been granted a waiver from Title IX due to religious opposition. When the list was published, the HRC derisively and deceptively characterized it as “a list of educational institutions who have received an exemption from federal civil rights law in order to discriminate against LGBT students.”

The HRC was a driving force behind the drive to legalize same-sex unions across America. When the Supreme Court essentially legalized them nationally through its Obergefell decision, HRC lost its reason for existence and needed another cause and source for fundraising – so they turned to advocacy for transgenderism in schools.

In 1995, the HRC created an “educational arm”, the HRC Foundation, a nonprofit, tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization for the stated purpose of improving “the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) people by working to increase understanding and encourage the adoption of LGBTQ-inclusive policies and practices.”

There is no question that organizations have the right to organize and advocate for their position; however, one can legitimately question whether a lobbying organization can produce training and support programs separate and distinct from their agenda.

There are good teachers within the public education system, that much is a fact – but these teachers are fighting the rising tide of this system shifting from a mission of education to a mission of social change.

It isn’t wrong to see John Dewey as the Emperor Palpatine of American education.

It doesn’t take much imagination to hear Dewey saying:

“Everything is proceeding as I have foreseen.”