Critical Theory, DEI and Social Emotional Learning are Marxist programs meant to “fundamentally transform” American education.
American Universities have been transformed from institutions of classical liberal education to become incubators of Marxist indoctrination through a very deliberate process of infiltration and gradualism.
American classical liberal education was anchored in: science, mathematics, history, philosophy, critical thinking, biblical standards of personal accountability, support for traditional family values, the importance of self-reliance, and a profound understanding of America's unique place in world history; with individual rights coming from God, not government.
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Guest: Peter W. Wood has served as president of the National Association of Scholars (NAS) since 2009. He was associate professor of anthropology at Boston University, where he also served as the president’s chief of staff; and he served as provost of The King’s College (NYC). He is the author of Wrath: America Enraged (2021) and 1620: A Critical Response to the 1619 Project (2020). He is also the author of several other books about American culture, including Diversity: The Invention of a Concept(2003); A Bee in the Mouth: Anger in America Now (2007); Diversity Rules (2020). He is editor-in-chief of the journal Academic Questions. In 2019, he received the Jeane Kirkpatrick Prize for contributions to academic freedom.
He is editor-in-chief of NAS’s quarterly, Academic Questions, and writes frequently for Spectator World, The New Criterion, The Claremont Review of Books, American Greatness, and other publications. His topics include intellectual freedom, wokeness in higher education, the DEI movement, climate hysteria, and American culture.
With the goal of transforming the University System from faith based classical liberal traditions; the takeover of American Universities was initiated when U.S. tax exempt foundations were allowed to gift large donations to these respected academic institutions in exchange for Trustee Board positions where significant changes could be “suggested” by newly minted trustees.
With support by academic “paragons” such as John Dewey, many of America's teacher's colleges were infiltrated by illumni trained by Marxist professors from the Frankfurt School at Columbia University.
The original Frankfurt School was formed by Jewish Marxist intellectuals at the University of Frankfurt in Germany during the tumultuous Weimar Republic year of 1923. They were forced to leave 6 years later by the anti-communist Hindenburg Reform Government, relocating to the United States at Columbia University in 1931.
This introduced little understood Marxist academic doctrine to Ivy League campuses and teachers colleges throughout America resulting in the destruction of American classical liberal education.
The Frankfurt School was led by radical Marxists such as Max Horkheimer, Gyorgy Lukacs, Theodor Adorno, Erich Fromm, Herbert Marcuse, and Saul Alinsky, promoting a common ideology…… to gain control of American education and advance the goals of international communism, ultimately eliminating American ideals of individual rights and personal responsibility.
Subsequently, universities have become hotbeds of radical societal transformation that place academic standards secondary to social justice, global citizenship, sustainability, and environmental justice groupthink. Critical thinkers need not apply here!
The “fundamental transformation” of education did not stop at the university level. Modern K-12 public education emphasizes Soviet style work skills training and consensus, not intellectual excellence and personal achievement.
Today nearly half of all high school graduates of inner-city public schools test as functionally illiterate and incapable of basic math skills. A host of public education initiatives such as No Child Left Behind, Education for All, and Common Core have not only not improved public education, they have accelerated the decline to the point where America is facing a very bleak future where we are no longer internationally competitive in math, science, and technology.
This is not by accident!!
The United States of America was clearly identified as the greatest threat to world communism, and a very organized effort by committed Marxists to destroy our institutions has been in place for more than a century. In his now famous manuscripts The Prison Notebooks, Italian communist Antonio Gramschi referred to this process of institutional sabotage as “the long march” through our institutions.
If we are to survive and thrive, we must expose the roots of collectivism destroying true classical liberal education and pull them out.
A Bachelor's degree today has roughly the same academic equivalent as a high school diploma had 60 years ago and an 8th grade education had in 1895. An 1895 8th Grade Final Exam: I Couldn't Pass It. Could You?
Reasserting our academic excellence will not be easy, but we have so many tools available today if we choose to use them. Parents have to choose a different path for their children than business as usual and trust in a system that is clearly failing to meet the academic standards of a modern free market advanced society.
Our future as a sovereign republic depends on us to set new standards for our children and grandchildren in a world of uniformity and groupthink! Are we committed to the task and willing to risk being labeled as domestic extremists by the FBI for protecting our children from Marxist ideologues? I certainly hope so!
