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"We need change agents in charge of those schools, not preservers of entrenched interests and encrusted practices." (Vanderbilt University Professor Chester Finn, Jr., chief architect of "America 2000") The above quote from Professor Chester Finn was published in 1991, in his article, "Reinventing Local Control" (_Education Week_, Jan.23, 1991, p.40) Under the Bush (Sr.) administration, Finn was given a mandate to "fix" American education; his efforts were seen as successful enough to earn him the title, "The Wizard of Education" (name of article by Thomas Toch, _US News and World Report_, Jul.15, 1991, p.46) While the choice of a moniker associated with witchcraft may [or may not] have been unintentional, his call for "change agents" is both deliberate and prophetic regarding the U.S. Department of Education's endorsement of a major tool in laying the groundwork for the New Age. And if Finn leaves any doubt as to which "encrusted" or obsolete practices were slated for "change", we have only to survey the fruit of his efforts: "America 2000", later renamed "Goals 2000". [Or simply see below.] This is merely the U.S. version of an education being promoted worldwide. It is deeply religious in nature, as we will see - "separation of religion and state" in America notwithstanding.
Editor's Commentary Last year, my then fourth grade son brought home a Harry Potter book. His teacher had been reading another of these books to the class, and he was enchanted. They are written by British author, J.K. Rowling, and are extremely popular with upper-aged elementary and middle school students. With titles like Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, a Christian parent would naturally become uneasy. A quick perusal reveals these books are full of descriptions of children doing spells and incantations. As bad as these books are, they don’t hold a candle to the inherent danger found in the actual curriculum being taught in most schools. In most cases, I believe that the teachers are simply unaware of the origin of the curriculum that they are using. They are our neighbors, simply people who love kids and have a desire to teach. However the upper echelon of the educational system both nationally and globally are clearly very aware. Robert Muller, former UN Undersecretary General, is the central figure in the UN sponsored global education reforms. Muller founded an educational program called The World Core Curriculum, in which many of the occult teachings of Alice Bailey are incorporated (See DTT, March, 1999). The preface of the World Core Curriculum states, "The World is indebted to Dr. Robert Muller...for the formulation of the World Core Curriculum in its skeleton form. It is upon that scaffold combined with the Ageless Wisdom teachings that this present work has precipitated. The underlying philosophy upon which The Robert Muller School is based will be found in the teachings set forth in the books of Alice A. Bailey by the Tibetan teacher, Djwhal Khul..." Published by Lucis Trust, originally named Lucifer Publishing Company, Bailey’s 24 books teach that Lucifer is the light of hope for mankind. She claimed to have channeled her teachings from her spirit guide whom she alleged was a Tibetan teacher named Djwhal Khul. Muller has established numerous schools throughout the world, the first of which is in Arlington, Texas. Before you say to yourself, "what’s this have to do with me?" understand this: you may not have ever heard of The World Core Curriculum, but I’ll guarantee that if you have school-aged children, you have heard of its offspring, Goals 2000. First introduced as America 2000 in 1991 by Lamar Alexander, Secretary of Education in the Bush Administration, Goals 2000 is patterned after the occultic outcome-based goals of the World Core Curriculum and today provides the educational cornerstone of most public school districts in America. Muller wants children to embrace new global ideas and to be free from the antiquated belief systems of their parents. In his book The Birth of a Global Civilization, Muller states: "In the long run, only the right global education will be our salvation on this planet. Children are born with more or less the same senses into the world. But very soon they are ‘wired in’ by a culture, a religion, and ideology, a nation. There is only one thing with which they are never really wired in: their membership in the entire human family....The lack of proper world education [is] one of our most glaring and dangerous deficiencies." Consequently, children who have no religious training, who do not know the God of the Bible, are considered ready for learning this new global paradigm. Children who have been "wired in" with the Christian faith must be re-trained. John Goodlad, who has served on the boards of UNESCO’s Institute for Education and Global Perspectives in Education stated in Schooling for the Future, a report to the President’s Commission of Schools Finance, Issue # 9, 1971, that "most youth still hold the same values as their parents....If we do not alter this pattern, if we don’t resocialize....our society may decay."
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