I first became aware of the concept of an intentional dumbing down of Americans through the public school system when I read the works of John Taylor Gatto and only recently was introduced to Charlotte Iserbyt’s book on the same topic.

Iserbyt knows what she is talking about. She served as Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI), U.S. Department of Education, during the first Reagan Administration. Iserbyt is a former school board director in Camden, Maine and was co-founder and research analyst of Guardians of Education for Maine (GEM) from 1978 to 2000.

Iserbyt documents the transformation of our school system chronologically, beginning in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, then chapter by chapter through the recent decades. You may be skeptical. Why would anyone develop a plan to deliberately keep the young people of our country ignorant?

As stated in the foreward of the book, “Mrs. Iserbyt has also documented the gradual transformation of our once academically successful education system into one devoted to training children to become compliant human resources to be used by government and industry for their own purposes. This is how fascist-socialist societies train their children to become servants of their government masters. The successful implementation of this new philosophy of education will spell the end of the American dream of individual freedom and opportunity. The government will plan your life for you, and unless you comply with government restrictions and regulations your ability to pursue a career of your own choice will be severely limited.”

“What is so mind boggling is that all of this is being financed by American people through their own taxes. In other words, the American people are underwriting the destruction of their own freedom and way of life by lavishly financing through federal grants the very social scientists who are undermining our national sovereignty and preparing our children to become the dumbed-down vassals of the new world order.”

Sound far-fetched? Too much like a conspiracy theory? Please take the time to investigate for yourself. The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America is available from Amazon or as a free ebook download from Iserbyt’s website:

www.deliberatedumbingdown.com