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The Winds of tyranny

"How much tyranny are you willing to tolerate? When you give your consent to a corrupt government you volunteer to be their slave."

"Those that consent to tyranny lack the courage necessary to live free"

A "Common Core" for a Global Community

This older version will soon be updated. The new version is HERE

The advent of the Common Core State Standards has prompted a new discussion about how to produce students who are “college- and career-ready.” But this question differs from the one that governed education throughout most of our history. We used to ask, what should a student know to become an educated citizen? Education would prepare one for college or career, certainly, but, more broadly, for life. What vision of education are we now advancing? As with parents and state legislators, academia has been largely excluded from this discussion.
The Common Core Standards are a set of K–12 school standards in English language arts and mathematics, created over the last five years by a D.C.-based nonprofit called Achieve, Inc., and released under the auspices of two private trade associations—the National Governors Association (NGA) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO).[1] Although the federal government did not draft the standards, President Obama and U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan have enthusiastically embraced them as the key to what one CCSSO official described as “transforming” American education.[2] These and other Common Core proponents advocate a single set of standards—and inevitably a single curriculum—implemented throughout the nation and controlled by experts in Washington. To this end, the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) offered states the chance to compete for Race to the Top money, and a better chance at receiving a No Child Left Behind “flexibility” waiver, if they would adopt Common Core. Currently, forty-five states and the District of Columbia have done so.

The Common Core system, is no more then a specially tailored and designed state Curriculum, designed so to subvertly indoctrinate or Desensitize students.....The objective is not so much but dose include the altering, changing or miss presenting of information...But rather it is a system specially designed so to alter the viewpoint of students in how they perceive, interpret or understand any given political, social or religious issue or situation....The exact model of this state sponsored system under different or variant names has and still is used in countries such as Iran, China, Cuba, Venezuela, North Korea and the former Soviet Union....The root and core of this system was in fact first developed in 1810 by Johann Gottlieb Fichte, who was the head of philosophy & psychology whom also influenced Hegel and others.

"Education should aim at destroying free will so that after pupils are thus schooled they will be incapablethroughout the rest of their lives of thinking or acting otherwise than as their school masters would have wished ... The social psychologist of the future will have a number of classes of school children on whom they will try different methods of producing an unshakable conviction that snow is black. Various results will soon be arrived at: first, that influences of the home are 'obstructive' and verses set to music and repeatedly intoned are very effective ... It is for the future scientist to make these maxims precise and discover exactly how much it costs per head to make children believe that snow is black. When the technique has been perfected, every government that has been in charge of education for more than one generation will be able to control its subjects securely without the need of armies or policemen."
[Bertrand Russell quoting Johann Gottlieb Fichte, the head of philosophy & psychology – Prussian University in Berlin, 1810]
I am a strong believer in the school of life.....Yes acquiring a academic education is very important...However the education which one receives at school, University etc. is highly dependent on and limited by the material and information which is made available to the students.....Information mined you which can and are in many cases easily altered and tailored so to fit with or forward a specific state or global objective and agenda...Therefore...I believe that it is absolutely imperative that one also opens his or her mind to the many social and political events taking place around them...Because an academically acquired education covers only 30-40% of ones education the remaining 60-70% is in fact gained from life.

-Darius Radmanesh