I don’t usually believe government conspiracy theories. As soon as people start talking about George Bush and his rich friends, I tune them out. The same thing with the rumor that Barack Obama wasn’t born in America.

But I recently heard of a conspiracy that’s more believable. I had already read Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
. Maybe that programmed me to believe this. But Charlotte Iserbyt brings her own credibility to the argument, having been Senior Policy Advisor in the US Department of Education under Reagan.

And what she blew the whistle on actually makes me nauseous. How ‘the government’ decided to dumb down the population in order to make it more manageable. That was another conspiracy theory that floated around when I was in High School. We used to laugh and scoff at the assertion that everything was becoming mediocre. I remember thinking that was preposterous, even as I feared it might be true.

Even as I type this, I wonder ‘who are they?’–as in ‘they’ who decided to dumb us down. Is it even possible? The answer is in the design. Benjamin Bloom, who designed the system of education in America put some terrifying things in his Taxonomy of Education Objectives. Bloom says the purpose of education is to change the thoughts and the actions of students. He defines good teaching as challenging students’ fixed beliefs.

That sounds innocuous enough. If you already know it, you’re not being educated, right? But we’re not talking about knowledge or wisdom here; we’re talking about faith. And schools have no business messing with faith. Bloom would disagree. He is proud of taking a student from believing in God and country to being an atheist who hates his country in 1 hour. And this is the man who designed the American educational system.

I remember hearing of people who opted out of sex education in the 80s. They seemed so quaint, so out of touch. Now they seem so wise to avoid that indoctrination. Teachers were trained to convert these parents to their way of thinking. So all that talk about parents having the freedom to object was bunk.

Put another way, sure they could opt out, but there would be no end of resistance. Talk about having to be rock solid in your faith!

More of the indoctrination is what I would call the fairness disease. Taking young children and framing poverty and affluence in such a way that the children would think it was not fair for anyone to be affluent.

Iserbyt says that the economic collapse has come about because of this educational system. A dumbed down country wouldn’t really notice what was going on. They certainly wouldn’t object.

That’s where homeschoolers come in. Homeschoolers are the next level of those parents who opted out of specific classes. They have opted out of the educational system altogether. They pose a huge threat to the system.

So what happens? They start getting arrested. This is a travesty. Make no mistake, this is about tyranny.

Our freedom is a precious resource. Many people died to protect it. We should not willingly surrender it to anyone. We are all still free to take our substandard educations and train up the next generation. If anyone lacks wisdom, he should ask God who gives generously to all without finding fault. . .

He is our only hope.