Conspiracy, Guilt, Educators ( plus A Birthday )

It's actually a very touchy subject. Dare we say that the Education Establishment has, actually, ahem, conspired to teach less and indoctrinate more??

One of the country's most successful executives sent me an email in which he noted that he agreed with much of what I said but couldn't cross the line into thinking our elite educators capable of, ahem, conspiracy. That email has weighed on me. After all, this guy is 100 times richer than I and several times smarter. Alas.

So I read some more Dewey and Counts and Rugg. And you know what, it's not that hard a call. These guys were planning, scheming, organizing, propagandizing, promoting, managing, finagling, prevaricating, and in every way attempting to make their socialist ideas prevail.

Here's a SHORT PRESS RELEASE that makes the case for calling all that effort a conspiracy. There's a link to a bigger version.

HURRAY: IMPROVE-EDUCATION.ORG CELEBRATES BIRTHDAY, ENTERS FIFTH YEAR. READ ALL ABOUT IT.

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