Are schools the evildoers in this quagmire of communism

To the editor:

Will our schoolchildren cause a communist takeover of our nation? As in the 1930s, today this question would probably be ridiculed. What makes Americans so vulnerable in this hate filled climate? Revolution starts in the mind.

Consider Minnesota, what was once the rural Christian home of Little House on the Prairie, an example of rugged individualism, is now a climate of hate. Where has this philosophy, contaminating the mind of millions, come from? Could this be setting Minneapolis up to be cannon fodder in a new civil war?

Contrary to being a spontaneous grassroots revolution, it's been reported to be funded with elite money and power while colluding with the Chinese Communist Party to coordinate riots and anarchy. As happened in the 2020 death of George Floyd, peaceful protesters were easily manipulated by paid revolutionaries. It's not happening all over the nation by accident. It's enlightening to go back to John Dewey, the Father of Progressive Education and the co-author of the Humanist Manifesto I. John Stormer outlines Dewey's Key beliefs in his 1998 book, "None Dare Call It Education."

"Religious humanists regard the universe as self-existing and not created... Humanist believes that man is a part of nature and that he has emerged as a result of a continuous {evolutionary} process... We are convinced that the time has passed for theism, deism, modernism, and several varieties of "new thoughts" ... uniquely religious emotions and attitudes of the kind hitherto associated with belief in the supernatural."

Disciples of Dewey concentrate on indoctrinating teachers and preparing materials for teaching, "designed to influence social attitudes...ideals and behaviors." Radical educators have gained enough power to influence and control most teacher training. Harold Rugg's 1933 book, "The Great Technology " intended to create a new public mind. How? "Only by creating tens-of-millions of new individual minds and welding them into a new social mind. Old stereotypes must be broken up and a new 'climates of opinion' formed in neighborhoods of America." Putting the icing on the cake of his utopian paradise, Rugg dreams: "... through the schools of the world we shall disseminate a new conception of government -- one that will embrace all of the collectivities of men, one that will postulate the need for the scientific control and operation of economic activities in the interest of the people."

How can you miss seeing his dream come true?

By 1950, Dewey, heading the Teachers College at Columbia, had spread his Marxist, humanist education strategy: 20% of all American school Superintendents were his disciples and 40% of teachers college heads had received advanced degrees under his tutelage. Today's mindset of collectivism has saturated millions of minds "to turn on their nation with a vengeful hatred." Teaching children by first telling them there is no God gives them license to question everything. We are experiencing moral anarchy in action. It's quite frankly a miracle that, so far, enough Americans see through the lies they've been taught in school.

Dewey tells us "Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society which is coming, where everyone is interdependent." He concludes, "You can't make socialists out of individualists." Progressive education has gradually taken the individualism out of too many of our people. Just as Pavlov's dogs could not control their response when the light went on, the people who have embraced the collective have developed a learned reaction to surrendered the ability to think for themselves.

As Reagan said, "Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected and handed on for them to do the same.." We must know how close we are to losing freedom, go to https://thenewamerican.com/print/minneapolis-mayhem-prelude-to-civil-war/ , to see who's behind nudging minds towards revolution.

- Russ Payne,

Merrimack