IMPORTANT:John Dewey: Education Was Never About Learning

John Dewey: Education Was Never About Learning

August 10, 2010

(left, John Dewey 1859-1952 institutionalized stupidity in our school system)

Illuminati Communism in Our Schools

by L.C. Vincent 

for henrymakow.com

No one has had a more pernicious effect on American education, and by extension the corruption of American society today than John Dewey. Born in 1859, John Dewey turned historic American values and logic upside down.

In Dewey's view, the individual existed only to serve society. "Socialization" (i.e., the individual's conformity to a group) was seen as more important than factual learning. This twisted view of education infected all of his work, resulting in a century of ever diminishing American academic achievement, with the resultant corruption of American society.

TURNING EDUCATION UPSIDE DOWN

John Dewey received his doctorate from Johns Hopkins University about 1883, and joined the staff of the University of Chicago in 1894. In 1899 he was elected President of the American Psychological Association and from 1904 until his death in 1952, he was a professor of philosophy at Columbia University and Teacher's College in New York.

According to Dewey, learning was only relevant in context of what Society, and by extension The State, deemed necessary. The acquisition of knowledge for its own sake was regarded as a selfish indulgence.

Feelings and emotions were far more valid a barometer of a student's "adjustment" towards society than information, or the use of logic and reason. It should come as no surprise, then, that throughout most of his professional life, Dewey proudly wore the label of a "Social Progressive."

Dewey was a great admirer of Edward Bellamy's book, "Looking Back" (1877) which described a Utopian society built upon the ashes of capitalism.

According to Dewey, Government comes first and its needs must therefore be paramount over the individual. Society (government) shapes individuals, not vice-versa, claimed Dewey.

Incredibly, Dewey ridiculed the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, declaring that knowledge was only valid and worthwhile if "society" decided so.

If the Powers That Be ("society") decided literature, or geometry, or chemistry is no longer a valid pursuit, but multicultural studies, minority oppression, and remedial basket weaving are, then the individual should have no alternative to that course of education.

Every virtue, including curiosity, resourcefulness, competitiveness, ethical conduct, right reasoning, rhetorical skills, logic and inventiveness --  could be considered to be "vices" overnight if the Powers That Be ("Society") decided they were no longer desirable.

In Dewey's world, there was no absolute truth. Therefore everything was malleable and changeable. There was no bedrock, no anchor upon which mankind might attach and secure their intellect, their character, or their conduct. Everything was continually in a state of flux, with the only constant being one's "duty" to society, to serve it however society chose to dictate through its institutions.

An emphasis on group participation, group learning, group problem solving and group activities hammered home the one unbending principle that the individual's  must always subservient to the "group."

Learning and achievement in any field of study, declared Dewey, was "selfish," the means whereby a child might separate him or her self from their peers.

Above all, Dewey wanted "top down" control of society. His philosophy was essentially the Rockefeller's, who sponsored the universities. Dewey wanted to create cogs for America commerce, just sufficiently intelligent to follow instructions. The goal of self-improvement were seen as a dangerous and detrimental deviation.

In our schools today, the current constant whirlwind of parties, drugs, sports, movie stars, sexual promiscuity, video games, violence, gangs, and celebrities -- the real unwritten core curriculum of today's centers of higher education -- are the "new normal."

Children who differ from this norm leave themselves open to ridicule, hostility, sabotage and disparagement for being "different" than their group-herd mentality peers.

Part Two -Later This Week

Australia a Concealed Colony

Fraud Update! Australia a Concealed Colony

August 10, 2010
http://www.henrymakow.com/basic_fraud_-_concealed_uk_col.html
[ Since his July 27 article appeared on this website, Ken's site www.basicfraud.com has been hacked and demolished, as Satanists promised it would be. The site argues that former British colonies, Australia, New Zealand and Canada never actually achieved independence. World government is an extension of the "British Empire" and independence would have been a step in the wrong direction. So they faked it.  

Their "elected Government and entire Judicial Systems are totally unlawful, fraudulent and invalid...This has enormous ramifications when considering International Treaties entered into by the these Governments, any political appointments, the banking laws, the whole Court System, taxation, just to name a few, have NO legitimacy and are totally null and void."

"The governments participating in this fraudulent cover up, do not want the general public to know the true situation, as it is part of their overall hidden agenda to manipulate and control the citizens of these countries.

"Also consider the global ramifications against Queen Elizabeth II and the Royal Family who have knowingly participated greatly in this massive fraud.

"Regarding the New World Order, are then the UN Treaties signed by these Countries valid, as they are not Nations??"

Aloysius Fozdyke, senior member of the satanic Alpha Lodge of Sydney, which controls the Australian government, asked to  "make contact with [Ken] as he obviously has special knowledge."

Ken refused saying Aloysius was an agent of the Australian government.

Aloysius continued: "The people behind the website  are irritants, that's all. We've already destroyed them. There is not a journalist in the world who will publish their boring material. Shortly their website will cease to exist. Accidents happen! Indeed, sometime ago I was attempting to lure journalists, checking the water temperature, so to speak. No one was interested then or now. QEII is controlled by our people; as is her system."

Here is an update from Ken.]



Firstly thank you for your emails, for your concern and for all your support. It is encouraging to know that there are some other people like yourself, who are not directly involved with our cause, but who do actually care, are worried for our safety and are also prepared to help us expose the truth.

We are frantically trying to get the www.basicfraud.com website back online. It was completely sabotaged and it now has to be totally rebuilt. We are also moving it to a different off-shore host company, which I hope will be more secure. We will also have a mirror site www.basic-fraud.com as a further backup. Either someone, a group of people, or a Government with extraordinary capabilities is obviously worried about the contents which were on the site, for them to be able to completely destroy it like they did.

We are also being very careful, watchful and alert for our own personal safety for obvious reasons! We always knew this could be a possibility and we had been warned by others that this could occur, but now we are taking it seriously! However, we will not stop or ever give up regardless of the consequences, until the truth is revealed and the information on the website becomes public knowledge.

I have now taken the opportunity to read some of the Fozdyke material and although I am unable to comment on the Satanism aspects of it, I can say that he appears to have a very good understanding of the political situation in Australia, New Zealand and Canada. He also seems to know about the workings of the British Royal Family and government.

For many years a number of Australians and others have been working to rectify some fundamental constitutional, political and therefore legal problems in Australia. These problems, with minor variations, also exist in New Zealand and Canada. I wish to stress that even with the website http://www.basicfraud.com being down, there is still abundant information available via the Internet to prove all of my assertions. It now appears that maybe it was the Alpha Lodge that had something to do with our website being taken down.

THE CONCEALED COLONIES

When the Commonwealth of Australia came into being on the 1st of January 1901 the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act, 1900 (UK) defined it "as a self governing colony." (See clause 8). The monarch of the now defunct United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was sovereign. That monarch gave vice-regal authority to an unelected, monarchy appointed Governor-General.

Prior to the end of WWI American President, Woodrow Wilson began pushing for an international body of nations to attempt to prevent any future global bloodbaths. The British at the time still had a sizable empire. The British government decided that if it kept its colonies these would not get a vote in what became the League of Nations. For purely political reasons they decided to grant their colonies freedom, independence and sovereignty knowing that their former colonies would vote with Mother Britain in the League of Nations.

RULE BRITANNIA RULE THE WAVES!

Ninety years ago the British were still the mightiest kingdom on Earth. Their navy surpassed all others. The peoples of Australia, New Zealand and Canada felt safe with the protection of Britain. Australia and New Zealand were on the other side of the world surrounded by non-white foreigners and Canada was living next door to an America already formulating its own colonial ambitions (by any other name).

Truth be told, with the exception of South Africa, Britain's former colonies didn't want their freedom and they didn't want it for very practical military, political, economic and cultural reasons. It was forced upon them for cynical but again, practical reasons.

  
World War II or The Great War: Part II


When WWII broke out the Americans were not officially involved, however after America orchestrated itself into that war, there was a problem. At a time when international law still meant something, the American Administration was worried that if its troop fought with Australians, New Zealanders or Canadians, they could be hauled before the League of Nations for fighting with colonists who didn't have the ability to declare war (with the exception of wars of independence only nations can declare war. This is basic international law.). Despite what is often stated, the Statute of Westminster, 1931 (UK) recognized what was the continuing colonial status Britain's Dominions; otherwise why pass it into law? Australia was forced to pass the Statute of Westminster Adoption Act, 1942 (Cth) so that the Americans felt comfortable fighting with us!

At the conclusion of WWII the United Nations was born. As its name makes clear, only nation states could be full members. The Commonwealth of Australia was a founding member.

Now certain pressing questions arise:

   1. How can Australia be a free, independent and sovereign nation state if Australia's Federal and State parliaments can't pass laws without the vice-regal signature of an unelected Governor-General or State Governors, all of whom are appointed by a Queen, herself appointed by the Parliament at Westminster? The same question applies to New Zealand and Canada!

   2. On the 11th of November, 1975 a democratically elected government of the Commonwealth of Australia was dismissed by a Governor-General appointed by a foreign Queen! The titles 'Queen of Australia', 'Queen of Canada' and 'Queen of New Zealand' are titles for the same woman appointed by the same foreign parliament. The 'Queen of Australia' is not a title found anywhere in the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act, 1900 (UK)!

Some Examples of How This Information is Used

Most people think that these issues are esoteric at best, but ask the Japanese government (whaling in Australian Antarctic waters); the American government (with bases on Australian Antarctic territory searching for resources); the government of Sri Lanka (which slaughtering Tamils in the full knowledge that if the truth be told they held a devastating international secret) or the government of Burma (content to securely breach all manner of human rights whilst they hold close their knowledge)? Ask the Israeli government how it can act like a pariah with immunity? Examine the Chinese government's record on dissidents, minorities or the Tibetans and wonder why the governments of the western world kowtow. (The Chinese government has long been aware of the situation but nonetheless copied the website http://www.basicfraud.com several times.)

There is a lot more information and documentation which is held throughout Australia. We merely await a journalist of integrity who believes that they can get this story and these documents published. Once published, we maintain that the United Nations as a front organisation for the coming New World Order will collapse. After the economic and political fallout the leaders of the world will be forced to either commit to freedom, democracy and the right to self determination as expressed in Articles 2, 4, 6, 102 and 103 of the Charter of the United Nations or come clean and demonstrate how the world really works.

Our story includes easily provable forgery of the signature of Queen Elizabeth II on an Appointment document for at least one Australian Governor-General, correspondence by Charles the Prince of Wales, lies told by Tony Blair, the complicity of many major British politicians (including David Cameron), interference in the Judicial system of the United Kingdom by Australian Prime Minister, John W. Howard and the unmistakable nature of the United Nations.

Unfortunately we still await a journalist of integrity.

Any further help you or any of your supporters can provide would be greatly appreciated not only by myself, but by all the citizens of Australia, New Zealand and Canada!!

Perhaps Fosdyke is more on the money than any of us initially thought.

Regards and thanks,

Ken


For further information whilst the websites are still up please refer to:

The Charter of the United Nations
http://www.un.org/en/documents/charter/index.shtml

Australia: The Concealed Colony.
http://www.members.westnet.com.au/unrealneil/

Transcript of the film Young & Free
http://members.iimetro.com.au/~hubbca/young_and_free.htm

A Constitutional Timebomb: Is New Zealand's Government and Court system unlawful?
http://www.hiddenmysteries.org/themagazine/vol14/articles/timebomb.shtml

BP Disaster = Catastrophic Climate Change?

August 9, 2010
"We may be entering a full new Ice Age."

by the Earl of Sterling

An Italian theoretical physicist, Dr. Gianluigi Zangari says the BP Oil Disaster has caused  a dramatic weakening in the vorticity of the Gulf Stream and North Atlantic Current, and a reduction in North Atlantic water temperatures by 10 Celsius.

"The breaking of a crucial warm stream ... may generate a chain reaction of unpredictable critical phenomena and ... may have serious consequences on the dynamics of the Gulf Stream thermoregulation activity of the Global Climate."

The Gulf Stream's impact on climate is well known, keeping Iceland and Scotland comfortable in winter compared to the deep-freeze of Labrador at the same latitude. The Gulf Stream  directly affects weather and climate patterns over the whole Northern Hemisphere, and perhaps even world wide.

 GULF STREAM 'DYING'

The entire 'river of warm water' that flows from the Caribbean to the edges of Western Europe is dying due to the Corexit that the Obama Administration allowed BP to use to hide the scale of the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Disaster.

The approximately two million gallons of Corexit, plus several million gallons of other dispersants, have caused the over two hundred million gallons of crude oil to mostly sink to the bottom of the ocean. This has  hidden much of the oil, with the hopes that BP can seriously reduce the mandated federal fines from the oil disaster.

However, there is no current way to effectively 'clean up' the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, which is about half covered in crude oil. Additionally, the oil has flowed up the East Coast of America and into the North Atlantic Ocean, and there is no way to effectively clean up this 'sea bottom oil'.

This massive amount of crude oil, covering such an enormous area, has seriously affected the Loop Current, the Gulf Stream, and the North Atlantic Current system, by breaking up the boundary layers of the warm water flow.

There are several names to the themo-regulation 'river of warm water' that keeps the Northern Hemisphere from going into a new Ice Age. The first section is named the  "Loop Current" and it begins in the Caribbean, flows around the Yucatan Peninsula and goes into the Gulf of Mexico, then loops around the Gulf and exits on the east side and runs between Cuba and Florida.

At this point the current is called the  "Florida Current" and it flows from the Keys up the East Coast of America (Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, and part of North Carolina) to the Outer Banks. At the Outer Banks the current heads east into the North Atlantic where it is known as the  "Gulf Stream". Eventually the Gulf Stream becomes the  North Atlantic Current, which itself eventually becomes the Norway Current and the Canary Current.

This 'river of warm water' does not begin with the Loop Current, it is part of a much larger system that includes the Atlantic South Equatorial Current which flows north along the coast of Brazil (the North Brazil Current), and becomes the Caribbean Current, and is renamed the Yucatan Current as it flows north into the Yucatan Channel. This entire system is one of the main global themo-regulation processes that regulates the planet's temperatures.

Based on what has already happened (to the Loop Current and the Gulf Stream/North Atlantic Current/etc. and global weather patterns), and what is continuing to happen, we can project increased global climate changes that are both serious and near in terms of time. We may be entering a full new Ice Age.

There is no known way to clean up the massive amount of free crude oil, stripped of its lighter elements by dispersants, now on the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico and in significant parts of the Atlantic Ocean (where the Gulf Stream flows).

The use of Corexit and other dispersants by BP, with the full cooperation of the Obama Administration has created the most significant danger to the entire planet in recorded history. This is what happens when a great nation slips into being a Third World type of nation, where money alone is the key driving force in government actions.

As full knowledge of the scope of the oncoming mega-disaster to the planet becomes known, the Obama Administration will find itself in a political crisis way beyond Watergate (that cost Nixon his presidency) or the sex affair that almost cost Clinton his presidency. The effect on this years mid-term Congressional elections are apt to be dramatic.

http://europebusines.blogspot.com/2010/08/special-post.html

Why are Feminists Surprised Their Daughters are Sluts?

August 11, 2010
by Henry Makow,  Ph.D.


In a recent article "Outraged Moms, Trashy Daughters" by Anne Kingston, (Macleans, Aug 16, 2010)   mothers lament that their daughters now see "empowerment"  in terms of pleasuring males.

While the feminist mothers saw power as financial independence and rejected female "objectification," their daughters accept the pornographic message of pop music and advertising. In the words of one mom, they "believe their purpose in life is to be sexual beings who please men."

"A blow job is like shaking hands," said another mom.  "Their attitude is: 'We're emancipated, we're liberated, we're in control. They see [it] as power; I see it as giving their power away."

Yes but:  Who taught girls they could have sex outside of courtship, love and marriage?
Feminists did. Feminism brainwashed young women to see husbands as oppressors and family as bondage. There was no longer any reason to restrict sex to love and marriage. 

Understandably, feminists don't want to admit their teachers have betrayed them. Feminism was created by elite social engineers to reduce population and undermine marriage and family.
Even while they wring their hands, feminists are blinded by their ideology. (The article veers off into a discussion of how feminism is still relevant.) 

The words "love," "marriage," "husband" and "family" do not appear  in the article. No wonder they can't understand the problem and what to do about it.

Both mothers and daughters are victims of deliberate social subversion. A woman's career used to be wife and mother. She consecrated her sexuality for the man she loved, the father of her children, her protector and provider.

Young women today are up a creek. They don't know how to be women and men don't know how to be men. But one thing that hasn't changed is - men don't marry sluts.  These girls are going to be left high and dry once their sex appeal has faded.

They obsess on looking beautiful but don't know that true beauty comes from within, from a spiritual purity. This means rejecting all coarse influences and behavior. It means focusing on what is good, true, human and inspiring. 

In the past, men had to prove their love and commitment before they could have sex.  As a result, women were cherished and given a lifelong role (mother, wife) that satisfied their deepest emotional needs.

Now they have been reduced to amateur prostitutes and corporate widgets.

"I don't meet many girls who feel good about themselves, even though they are totally gorgeous," one social worker says.

How could they ... giving their bodies to strangers who dump them? 

Girls figure they must give away sex or boys will get it from other girls. That's like saying, "if I don't let muggers rob and beat me, other girls will."

The other word totally absent from this article is "father."  Girls could get love, self respect and guidance from their fathers. But I'm guessing their feminist mothers drove their fathers away. 

It's not too late for girls to learn to be women again. There can be no sex without courtship and love. If other girls want to give it away, let them suffer the consequences. 

Girls can become feminine again by making marriage and family their first priority. If they refocus, they can regain the path to fulfillment and happiness.