“The real story of government education can be traced to a long-forgotten communist commune in Indiana called New Harmony, established by Robert Owen in 1820.
It failed after 2 years, but Owen wrote articles about his “utopian” ideas and how they would work if only we could educated the youn…
“The real story of government education can be traced to a long-forgotten communist commune in Indiana called New Harmony, established by Robert Owen in 1820.
It failed after 2 years, but Owen wrote articles about his “utopian” ideas and how they would work if only we could educated the young children. When the Prussian Ambassador of that time visited, he was impressed with Owen’s ideas, went back to Prussia, the Prussian King loved the whole notion “And thus, the Prussian system of education - schooling of the state, by the state, and for the state - was officially born.”
The book:
Indoctrinating Our Children to Death - Government Schools’ War on Faith, Family and Freedom..and How to Stop It
Interesting. Thanks for that bit of additional history, I'm always learning new things from you and my Substack friends 💖. I don't actually see it in conflict with Will's work at all, rather it explains where the Prussians got the idea; and indeed (I have not read everything of his) Will may well cover that bit of history on his substack.
Interesting factoid: there is a town named New Harmony in southern Utah not far from where I live. Was this Indiana commune affiliated in any way with the Latter-day Saints (Mormons)?
That I don’t know…I’m only on ch 4 and haven’t come across anything about that. Newman moved on to Horace Mann and John Dewey, socialists credited with having created the modern public educational system in the U.S. both were of the communist persuasion of needing to undermine Christianity and remove religion from schools…etc…and here we are today, the dumbing down of American well underway
The Pledge of Allegiance was written by a socialist (communist), Francis Bellamy. Note how it slyly replaces 'defend the Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic' with a pledge to a symbol -- the US Flag -- which despite its felt importance to many, especially military, is symbolic. Even 'under God' was only added in 1954; godless Socialists would never have included that. They also used the word 'indivisible' in an attempt to codify that it was now impossible for a state to leave the Union -- a question which today has renewed significance.
The Pledge is a classic example of 'control through language.' It must be subtle but persuasive.
Thank You, Bill…I didn’t know that, and it seems to me another very important piece to this puzzle of just how deeply infiltrated we have been and for so long! And yet so many still here to educate and defend 🙏❤️
Well actually, in Alex Newman’s book, he writes:
“The real story of government education can be traced to a long-forgotten communist commune in Indiana called New Harmony, established by Robert Owen in 1820.
It failed after 2 years, but Owen wrote articles about his “utopian” ideas and how they would work if only we could educated the young children. When the Prussian Ambassador of that time visited, he was impressed with Owen’s ideas, went back to Prussia, the Prussian King loved the whole notion “And thus, the Prussian system of education - schooling of the state, by the state, and for the state - was officially born.”
The book:
Indoctrinating Our Children to Death - Government Schools’ War on Faith, Family and Freedom..and How to Stop It
Interesting. Thanks for that bit of additional history, I'm always learning new things from you and my Substack friends 💖. I don't actually see it in conflict with Will's work at all, rather it explains where the Prussians got the idea; and indeed (I have not read everything of his) Will may well cover that bit of history on his substack.
Interesting factoid: there is a town named New Harmony in southern Utah not far from where I live. Was this Indiana commune affiliated in any way with the Latter-day Saints (Mormons)?
That I don’t know…I’m only on ch 4 and haven’t come across anything about that. Newman moved on to Horace Mann and John Dewey, socialists credited with having created the modern public educational system in the U.S. both were of the communist persuasion of needing to undermine Christianity and remove religion from schools…etc…and here we are today, the dumbing down of American well underway
The Pledge of Allegiance was written by a socialist (communist), Francis Bellamy. Note how it slyly replaces 'defend the Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic' with a pledge to a symbol -- the US Flag -- which despite its felt importance to many, especially military, is symbolic. Even 'under God' was only added in 1954; godless Socialists would never have included that. They also used the word 'indivisible' in an attempt to codify that it was now impossible for a state to leave the Union -- a question which today has renewed significance.
The Pledge is a classic example of 'control through language.' It must be subtle but persuasive.
Thank You, Bill…I didn’t know that, and it seems to me another very important piece to this puzzle of just how deeply infiltrated we have been and for so long! And yet so many still here to educate and defend 🙏❤️
Indeed. They have built their fortress tall and wide, and at one time it seemed unassailable. But it is now crumbling, for everyone to see.
Well stated and Amen!