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Chemical experimentation on minors, all in pursuit of educational excellence
> The second document, the gigantic Behavioral Science Teacher Education
> Project, outlined teaching reforms to be forced on the country after 1967.
> If you ever want to hunt this thing down, it bears the U.S. Office of
> Education Contract Number OEC-0-9-320424-4042 (B10). The document sets out
> clearly the intentions of its creators—nothing less than “impersonal
> manipulation” through schooling of a future America in which “few will be
> able to maintain control over their opinions,” an America in which “each
> individual receives at birth a multi-purpose identification number” which
> enables employers and other controllers to keep track of underlings and to
> expose them to direct or subliminal influence when necessary. Readers
> learned that “chemical experimentation” on minors would be normal procedure
> in this post-1967 world, a pointed foreshadowing of the massive Ritalin
> interventions which now accompany the practice of forced schooling.
>
Participatory Democracy Put To The Sword [1], part of Chapter 2 of The
Underground History of American Education [2]
I came across this link not as research for my poor attempt at a novel [3],
but because I have an interest in just how bad our educational system is, but
I didn't realize just blatently manipulative it is. And it's just one more
depressing data point to add to the every growing list of depressing trends
in society.
[1]
http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/2d.htm
[2]
http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/index.htm
[3]
gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2002/11/14.1
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