The Glenn Beck Program - Ep 4 ｜ The Progressive 'Experts' Who Radicalized US Education ｜ The Beck Story

00:00:00.000 Never Again

00:00:07.360 That slogan was widely accepted in Western societies in the aftermath of the Holocaust.

00:00:14.680 In April 1945, when American troops liberated the Buchenwald concentration camp,

00:00:19.400 Jewish survivors put up handmade signs declaring Never Again in various languages.

00:00:26.060 Three years later, the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,

00:00:31.020 as well as the Genocide Convention.

00:00:34.240 It was the international community vowing to never again allow the atrocities that they had just witnessed in World War II.

00:00:41.440 Maybe the world was finally turning over a new leaf when it came to anti-Semitism.

00:00:46.660 Maybe humanity had finally learned its lesson.

00:00:51.040 Then again, maybe not.

00:00:53.220 Never Again quickly became mostly an empty slogan because over the next half century,

00:00:59.680 genocide happened repeatedly around the world against people groups in Cambodia, Bosnia, Rwanda, and many more.

00:01:07.320 And then, on October 7th, 2023.

00:01:12.780 Israel declares it is at war with Hamas.

00:01:14.760 Israel has declared a state of war and striking targets in the Gaza Strip.

00:01:18.000 That follows an unprecedented attack into Israel today.

00:01:21.320 The militant group Hamas carried out a combined attack early this morning.

00:01:24.580 This was a massive, unprecedented attack where you had Hamas terrorists, roughly a thousand of them,

00:01:30.120 crossing over that 37-mile border between Gaza and the state of Israel.

00:01:33.900 The Iran-backed terrorist group Hamas murdered over 1,200 Jewish men, women, children, and babies.

00:01:43.980 It was the deadliest terrorist attack on Israel since it was re-established as a nation in 1948.

00:01:49.640 To rational observers, the barbaric rape, torture, mutilation, and murder perpetrated by Hamas was utterly sickening.

00:01:59.640 And yet, some tried to justify, even celebrate, this new genocide.

00:02:07.120 And for months after the attack, the loudest, most persistent anti-Israel voices in America were found on our college campuses.

00:02:15.300 Make it clear, say it loud!

00:02:17.880 Gaza, you make us proud!

00:02:19.700 Gaza, Gaza, you make us proud!

00:02:21.720 Gaza, Gaza, you will rise! 0.98

00:02:23.600 Gaza, Gaza, you will rise! 0.98

00:02:25.660 Within our lifetime!

00:02:27.560 Within our lifetime!

00:02:29.660 Let us fight, go!

00:02:30.980 Let us fight, go!

00:02:32.020 Let us fight, go!

00:02:34.020 We will drink, go!

00:02:35.740 We will drink, go!

00:02:37.380 Two months after the October 7th attack on Israel,

00:02:41.880 an extensive poll by Harvard's Center for American Political Studies in conjunction with the Harris Poll,

00:02:48.640 found that when registered voters were asked who they sided with more in the Israel-Hamas conflict,

00:02:55.240 95% of voters aged 65 and older said Israel, while only 5% said Hamas.

00:03:02.580 But in the 1824-year-old age range, 52% said Israel, while 48% said Hamas.

00:03:10.020 Another of the poll's questions asked, quote,

00:03:13.840 If a student calls for the genocide of Jews,

00:03:16.980 should that student be told that they are free to call for genocide,

00:03:20.920 or should such students face actions for violating university rules?

00:03:27.420 53% of the 18- to 24-year-old age group answered that the student should be told that they are free to call for genocide.

00:03:35.060 In the 65 and older category, only 8% agreed with that. 0.92

00:03:41.160 In the 18- to 24-year-old age group, 79% agree with the ideology that white people are oppressors.

00:03:49.960 The polling highlights a stunning generation gap and confirms how prominent true progressive ideology of oppression has become.

00:03:58.620 How is this blatant anti-Semitism possible?

00:04:03.000 After all, diversity, equity, and inclusion, DEI,

00:04:06.960 that was first spliced together in America's higher ed laboratories.

00:04:11.840 University campuses have entire offices dedicated to sniffing out and punishing so-called microaggressions.

00:04:19.280 How could a major aggression like anti-Semitism thrive in such a controlled environment where even using a wrong pronoun is considered a cardinal sin?

00:04:31.860 The same DEI madness now also permeates America's public school system.

00:04:37.460 In Seattle public schools, students as young as 13 can receive so-called gender-affirming medications, hormone therapy,

00:04:47.140 even with referrals for sex change surgeries without notifying the student's parents.

00:04:53.700 On an overnight school trip in 2023, an 11-year-old girl from Colorado was assigned to share a local hotel room and a bed with a boy who identifies as a girl.

00:05:04.960 The girl's parents were not notified ahead of time.

00:05:09.480 What's going on?

00:05:12.020 The truth and general order that provided the bedrock of civilized society for generations

00:05:18.600 has been systematically co-opted by powerful forces striving to transform the order into chaos.

00:05:27.840 In November 2023, one month after the savage attack on Israel,

00:05:32.840 journalist and author Barry Weiss gave a speech at the Federalist Society that she titled,

00:05:39.200 The Last Line of Defense.

00:05:41.480 The whole speech is worth your time, but I want to share just a couple of excerpts.

00:05:46.340 When anti-Semitism moves from the shameful fringe into the public square,

00:05:52.880 it is not about Jews.

00:05:54.620 It is never about Jews.

00:05:56.340 It is about everyone else.

00:06:00.700 It is about the society or the culture or the country where it is being allowed to proliferate.

00:06:08.560 Anti-Semitism is a warning system.

00:06:12.140 It is a sign that the society itself is breaking down, that it is dying.

00:06:17.540 It is a symptom of a much deeper crisis, one that explains how, in the span of a little

00:06:24.180 over 20 years since September 11th, educated people now respond to an act of savagery,

00:06:30.820 not with a defense of civilization, but with a defense of barbarism.

00:06:35.840 At first, the things I encountered like post-modernism and post-colonialism and post-nationalism

00:06:42.480 seemed like wordplay or intellectual games, little puzzles to see how you could deconstruct

00:06:49.620 just about anything.

00:06:51.800 But what I came to see over time was that it wasn't going to remain an academic sideshow,

00:06:58.200 and that it sought nothing less than the deconstruction of our society from within.

00:07:04.660 This ideology seeks to upend the very ideas of right and wrong.

00:07:11.840 The takeover of core American institutions by this ideology is so comprehensive that it's

00:07:19.560 hard sometimes for people to even notice it, because it's everywhere.

00:07:24.520 This is the ideology of vandalism.

00:07:27.500 In the true sense of the word, the vandal sacked Rome.

00:07:30.780 It is the ideology of nihilism.

00:07:33.160 It knows nothing about how to build.

00:07:36.280 It only knows how to tear down and destroy.

00:07:41.180 Her diagnosis is absolutely spot on.

00:07:45.440 But how could this ideology develop and propagate in America, the land of the free?

00:07:52.360 Ever wonder why things are the way they are in America?

00:07:59.920 Welcome to The Beck Story, my podcast on how our past informs our present, charts our future.

00:08:08.360 How did we get here?

00:08:09.640 The first season is about the cult of expertise developed in America, how it permeated our government.

00:08:16.480 How this allegiance to so-called expertise has far-reaching implications for our nation right now.

00:08:23.980 A remarkably consistent through-line extends from the original progressive movement right through to the actions of left-wing elites today.

00:08:33.480 When America took its first steps as a nation, we were mostly an educational backwater.

00:08:42.640 Schooling, if it was available at all, was almost entirely a local matter.

00:08:47.240 When the Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776, the average American had only gone to school a total of 82 days in their life.

00:08:57.580 And when they were able to go to school, they were crammed into one-room shacks, often with terrible lighting, no desks, few books, and ill-equipped teachers.

00:09:07.100 In true rugged American style, a young Connecticut teacher named Noah Webster decided he was going to try to improve things.

00:09:16.560 Post-Revolutionary War, Noah Webster did not think American children should still be learning from British books.

00:09:23.480 So, in 1783, he wrote An American One, a textbook titled A Grammatical Institute of the English Language.

00:09:32.020 Thanks to its blue cover, it became much better known by its nickname, the blue-backed speller.

00:09:39.440 For the next century, Webster's books taught countless American children how to read and spell.

00:09:45.460 It sold an estimated 50 million copies, the most popular American book of the era.

00:09:51.240 It took Webster five years to write his first dictionary, which included 37,000 words and definitions.

00:09:57.580 He is the one who standardized the American spelling and pronunciation of words, making many of them distinct from their British versions.

00:10:07.560 It took him 22 years more to compile the second version, his American Dictionary of the English Language,

00:10:14.580 which was published in 1828 and included 70,000 words and definitions.

00:10:20.140 By then, Webster was 70 years old.

00:10:23.060 Noah Webster is a great example of the positive, innovative expertise.

00:10:29.240 He saw an educational need and he got to work on a solution.

00:10:32.420 But he didn't leverage his expertise to wield power like some national education czar.

00:10:38.700 If he had an agenda, it was just to help make Americans more literate,

00:10:42.940 which he thought would encourage national and cultural unity.

00:10:47.180 Unfortunately, Webster's brand of expertise would not last in American education.

00:10:51.060 The U.S. Constitution does not mention tax-supported schools.

00:10:59.060 But the founders knew that the success of the new republic depended on educated, engaged citizens.

00:11:06.440 Thomas Jefferson and John Adams were among those in favor of creating a formal system of publicly funded schools.

00:11:13.040 Jefferson said, quote,

00:11:14.140 By the time of the Revolutionary War, several communities in the Northeast were experimenting with tax-supported schools.

00:11:36.660 In 1785 and 1787, federal ordinances were passed giving large tracts of lands to new states entering the Union,

00:11:45.460 with the requirement that portions of the land be reserved to establish public schools.

00:11:51.800 The idea was that schools would help create stable communities in these remote territories.

00:11:56.980 In 1830, around 55% of the children ages 5 to 14 were enrolled in one of these public schools.

00:12:04.200 But most did not stay in school once they became teenagers.

00:12:07.900 In 1870, still less than 2% of Americans had a high school diploma.

00:12:12.920 But the Second Industrial Revolution, coupled with the immigration boom of the late 1800s,

00:12:18.440 transformed the American public school landscape.

00:12:21.120 Between 1890 and 1920, an average of one high school per day was built in the United States.

00:12:29.640 Public schools became the primary means of teaching immigrants English and assimilating them into the American way of life.

00:12:37.260 By 1950, over 75% of Americans were high school graduates.

00:12:42.360 Today, the U.S. has over 13,000 public school districts, with over 98,000 individual schools.

00:12:49.400 Around 47% of school funding comes from the state level, 45% from the local level, and about 8% from the federal government.

00:12:59.620 For a very long time, going to school, whether it be public, private, or homeschool,

00:13:04.880 has not been optional for American kids, with about 90% of them attending public schools.

00:13:11.440 And whom do we have to thank for compulsory schooling?

00:13:14.740 Well, it's a 19th century reformer named Horace Mann.

00:13:22.100 Horace Mann.

00:13:23.800 He's known as the father of American education.

00:13:27.020 As a Massachusetts state senator, Mann was instrumental in establishing the Massachusetts State Board of Education in 1837. 0.59

00:13:35.980 He was then appointed as the board's first secretary of education.

00:13:39.300 The Massachusetts governor tasked Mann with writing an annual report on the state's schools.

00:13:46.080 Over the next six years, Mann visited 1,000 schools, and his reports became the basic public school standards that were adopted all across the nation.

00:13:55.420 Through his research and his site visits, Mann developed some core beliefs about American education.

00:14:01.060 First, that every child should have an equal opportunity to obtain basic common knowledge, free of charge, through state-funded public schools.

00:14:12.320 Mann called these common schools and wanted them to emphasize the three R's, reading, writing, and arithmetic.

00:14:21.000 Plus, history, geography, grammar, and rhetoric.

00:14:24.260 He emphasized the importance of teaching civic virtues and basic moral instruction based on what he considered universal Christian principles.

00:14:34.940 Mann was big on keeping the common schools non-sectarian, which was controversial at the time, as critics thought it made the schools too secular.

00:14:42.860 In one of his reports, Mann insisted that the common schools earnestly inculcates all Christian morals, but that the school should not act as, quote, an umpire between hostile religious opinions, end quote.

00:14:59.920 Incorporating basic Christian principles in a public school was much easier in Mann's day, when those principles were widely accepted by society.

00:15:07.520 But his non-sectarian standard ultimately eroded to the point that a pair of Supreme Court decisions in 1962 and 63 outlawed prayer and Bible reading in public school classrooms.

00:15:21.140 The upside-down world that resulted means that today bringing a book titled Genderqueer into middle school classrooms is brave and virtuous.

00:15:32.200 But bringing in the words of Jesus, well, that's just too far dangerous.

00:15:37.520 Horace Mann fervently believed that public investment in his vision of common schools would benefit the whole nation, producing illiterate, moral people and promoting good citizenship.

00:15:49.560 Maybe Mann genuinely believed all that in the pure sense.

00:15:53.120 But whether he realized it or not, he kicked open the door for a never-ending line of experts eager to seize the common school as a means of indoctrination and control.

00:16:07.520 In 1807, Germany was recovering from the bitter defeat of the war with France.

00:16:13.260 The German government had made sweeping reforms across society, with education at its core of these reforms.

00:16:20.100 The leader of this German educational reform movement was a man named Johann Fichte.

00:16:26.100 He believed that to build a robust nation-state, schools should be designed to indoctrinate children early on, to mold them into loyal, compliant citizens.

00:16:37.680 In speaking about the proper way for teachers to instruct students, he said,

00:16:42.020 In 1843, Horace Mann went to another fact-finding mission, this time to Europe.

00:17:06.560 He wanted to see how the Europeans ran their national school system.

00:17:11.060 As he recorded in one of his annual reports for the Massachusetts Board of Education,

00:17:15.700 he was most inspired by the schools in Prussia with their compulsory model.

00:17:21.940 He liked the way Prussia trained its teachers at national institutes.

00:17:26.040 He liked how they had a national curriculum for each grade and a national testing system.

00:17:30.860 When he got back to America, he preached the virtues of creating a national education system

00:17:36.780 and warned about the, quote, calamities which will result from leaving this most important of all the functions of a government to chance, end quote.

00:17:47.880 Other states could risk those calamities with their disjointed hodgepodge of school if they wanted to, but not on Mann's watch.

00:17:58.480 He made Massachusetts a model for state-funded schools and teacher training.

00:18:03.500 New York, Rhode Island, Connecticut soon followed Mann's model.

00:18:07.200 Then, Massachusetts passed the very first compulsory attendance laws in America.

00:18:12.800 By the end of the 1800s, 34 states had laws requiring kids to attend school.

00:18:19.300 By 1918, every state had them.

00:18:27.020 Another German educational innovation that was imported by American reformers is kindergarten.

00:18:34.680 Noah Webster probably would have tried to come up with a good American name for kindergarten,

00:18:39.400 which means garden of children in German.

00:18:42.800 But the earliest adopters were so enthralled with the German concept that they just kept calling it kindergarten.

00:18:50.180 And 150 years after the first public kindergarten started in America,

00:18:56.020 we still call it by its German name.

00:18:59.840 A Massachusetts teacher named Elizabeth Palmer Peabody first read about the kindergarten concept in 1856.

00:19:06.100 She later traveled to Germany to observe the kindergartens and study under their founders.

00:19:12.800 Enthralled with all she learned, Peabody returned to America and opened the nation's first English-language kindergarten.

00:19:22.080 She ran the school with her sister, who happened to be married to Horace Mann.

00:19:27.240 Peabody became a national advocate for kindergarten, determined to spread it across the nation.

00:19:32.460 That's when a woman named Susan Blow stepped in. 1.00

00:19:36.060 She also studied kindergartens in Germany before convincing her school board in St. Louis, Missouri,

00:19:42.800 to open America's first public school kindergarten in 1873.

00:19:49.340 The concept dovetailed perfectly with the burgeoning progressive movement.

00:19:53.840 By 1880, there were over 400 kindergartens across the 30 states.

00:19:59.840 Inherent in the German name is the idea that it's a garden that's being cultivated, pruned, and nourishing for young children.

00:20:09.360 All children need those things, of course.

00:20:11.680 But the seismic shift was the determination by a handful of experts in Germany and later America.

00:20:20.020 That this cultivating should happen in a classroom environment at the hand of trained professionals rather than a child's parent.

00:20:31.540 Just behind Horace Mann in his passion for government-driven education was a Connecticut state representative named Henry Bernard.

00:20:39.780 He said, quote,

00:20:41.920 No one at all familiar with the deficient household arrangements and deranged machinery of domestic life,

00:20:50.340 of the extreme poor and the ignorant, to say nothing of the intemperate,

00:20:55.720 of the examples of rude manners, impure and profane language,

00:20:59.900 and all of the vicious habits of the low-bred idleness, 0.96

00:21:04.320 canned out that it is better for children to be removed as early and as long as possible from such scenes and such examples, end quote.

00:21:16.320 In these comments, you can detect the early seeds of progressivism that would eventually come down to dominate education.

00:21:24.060 The late historian Michael Katz wrote,

00:21:26.920 The crusade for our educational reform led by Horace Mann was not the symbol unambiguous good that it had long been taken to be.

00:21:38.500 The central aim of the movement was to establish more efficient mechanisms of social control,

00:21:44.900 and its chief legacy was the principle that education was something that the better part of the community did to the others

00:21:54.160 to make them orderly, moral, and tractable.

00:21:58.180 When Woodrow Wilson was president of Princeton University,

00:22:03.240 he once told an audience that when it came to the students,

00:22:06.720 the goal is, quote,

00:22:08.180 to make them as unlike their fathers as we can, end quote.

00:22:14.780 In achieving that goal,

00:22:16.440 no one would have a greater impact than an old classmate of Woodrow Wilson's,

00:22:21.540 a progressive icon named John Dewey.

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00:23:35.120 Historically, the nature of Western education was classical.

00:23:39.240 Essentially, it taught that there is objective truth in the world, and there is such a thing as moral law.

00:23:45.600 It was concerned with critical thinking and morality, knowledge of the facts in math and science, grammar, rhetoric, classical literature, and history.

00:23:55.020 A classical education was like passing down the greatest hits collection from the best of Western civilization.

00:24:02.480 In the Horace Mann era of American public education, the classical model was still the default.

00:24:09.300 While many private schools and charter schools still use the classical model today, with excellent results,

00:24:16.140 it is largely absent from the American public education system.

00:24:20.820 No one influenced this sea change more than John Dewey.

00:24:25.280 Born in Vermont, 1859, Dewey grew up in a modest household, the second oldest of four boys.

00:24:33.160 His father was a merchant and his mother was a devout evangelical who made sure her boys were always in church and Sunday school.

00:24:42.580 With John Dewey, at least the religious devotion did not stick.

00:24:47.400 When he eventually had his own children, his mother complained to him that he did not send them to Sunday school.

00:24:52.920 He replied that he had gone to Sunday school more than enough to make up for his kids' lack of attendance.

00:25:01.240 After graduating from the University of Vermont in 1879, Dewey taught high school in Oil City, Pennsylvania for two years.

00:25:10.160 After that, he tried teaching elementary school in a Vermont town for one year before giving up and returning to academia.

00:25:16.840 One of his former students later recalled that Dewey was unable to control the unruly boys in his classes.

00:25:25.140 In his long career as a college professor, students struggled to stay awake during his lectures.

00:25:31.400 Despite his apparent lack of charisma in the classroom, in his 1897 book, My Pedagogic Creed, Dewey wrote this,

00:25:39.420 He was no longer personally religious, but his use of Judeo-Christian language to describe the teacher's role shows the intensity of his zeal for the profession and what it could do.

00:25:59.800 Dewey went to Johns Hopkins University where he earned his Ph.D. in philosophy and psychology.

00:26:05.120 Johns Hopkins was the first German-style research university in America.

00:26:11.020 It was there that Dewey and a young Woodrow Wilson studied under a professor named Herbert Baxter Adams, who had earned his Ph.D. in Germany.

00:26:21.540 Adams helped invent the new American field of political science.

00:26:25.460 Fitting right in with the blossoming progressive culture of the time, American graduate schools would train new quote-unquote experts in the social sciences to reform and run government.

00:26:39.100 It was all part of the progressive philosophy that all aspects of society should be scientifically managed.

00:26:46.500 John Dewey soon set his reformer sights on the field of education.

00:26:50.580 In the summer of 1894, John Dewey accepted a teaching position at the new University of Chicago.

00:26:57.540 It was there that he started developing his overall philosophy, that schools should not pass on the time-tested Western body of knowledge as much as they should be places where students developed and pursued their own interests.

00:27:12.620 Chicago was a hotbed of progressive and socialist activity, and Dewey quickly got swept up in the fervor.

00:27:18.360 He grew convinced that education needed to be overhauled in order to overhaul society.

00:27:24.260 He said,

00:27:25.120 I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform.

00:27:30.180 At the University of Chicago, Dewey developed the University Elementary School, sometimes known as the Experimental School,

00:27:39.240 where students were taught according to Dewey's new educational philosophy.

00:27:43.400 Some parents of these students complained that they still had to teach their children how to read and write

00:27:49.300 because of the emphasis at Dewey's laboratory school on play, student collaboration, and field trips.

00:27:56.300 Five years into his education experiment at the University of Chicago,

00:28:00.860 Dewey published a pamphlet that made him famous titled,

00:28:04.200 The School and Society.

00:28:05.980 In 1897, as part of his pedagogic creed, Dewey wrote,

00:28:15.280 Today, you still see the Dewey philosophy in action with things like differentiated instruction.

00:28:34.280 It's this Dewey idea of catering to the interest and ability of the individual child.

00:28:41.700 So, for example, an English class might not have a set novel that the whole class studies.

00:28:47.260 Students would instead pick their own book to read.

00:28:50.220 You wouldn't want to stifle a student with core knowledge and some aspect of Western civilization

00:28:55.360 because it might prevent them from finding their truth and discovering their authentic selves.

00:29:01.340 Dewey engineered the split between student-centered and subject-centered education.

00:29:08.180 As former educator and author Daniel Buck describes it,

00:29:12.340 Dewey went so far as to say that no content had inherent value in learning.

00:29:18.080 Rather, what interests the child ought to lead the way.

00:29:21.240 Education came to focus on the self.

00:29:24.120 In the 1950s, one historian wrote that Dewey-led progressive education movement

00:29:30.560 found its essential meaning in, quote,

00:29:33.600 creative self-expression.

00:29:36.120 In Dewey's system, helping students express themselves

00:29:39.840 did not involve teaching them religious or moral values.

00:29:43.960 Progressive socialist values?

00:29:45.720 Oh yeah, absolutely.

00:29:46.580 In 1904, after falling out with the president of the University of Chicago,

00:30:03.980 John Dewey moved to Columbia University,

00:30:06.960 where he would help develop Columbia's Teachers College

00:30:10.480 into an epicenter of progressive education.

00:30:14.040 He remained at Columbia for the rest of his career.

00:30:17.860 One contemporary of Dewey's said, quote,

00:30:20.560 Believing that public school is the chief remedy for the ills of society,

00:30:25.380 Dewey has tried to change the work of the school

00:30:27.620 so as to make it a miniature of society itself.

00:30:32.540 What better way to accomplish that goal

00:30:34.960 than to train teachers to be agents of change?

00:30:39.200 Train them to use American classrooms to condition students, 0.99

00:30:42.800 to want the progressive vision for society.

00:30:46.640 Train teachers to do what Johann Fichte

00:30:49.260 had espoused in Germany a century before,

00:30:52.860 to fashion a student in such a way

00:30:55.380 that he simply cannot will otherwise

00:30:58.540 than what you wish him to will.

00:31:02.740 Dewey went on to train 35,000 students

00:31:05.700 through Columbia's Teachers College.

00:31:07.620 Because of that massive influence,

00:31:10.160 it was estimated that by 1970,

00:31:12.500 every certified teacher in America

00:31:14.320 had been trained by a disciple of John Dewey.

00:31:18.220 As more and more universities began establishing

00:31:20.860 teacher training programs,

00:31:22.740 Dewey's opinions about education

00:31:24.460 became the cutting-edge expertise in the field.

00:31:28.080 The result of Dewey's drive to make teachers

00:31:30.540 into change agents for society

00:31:32.980 is still felt in things like

00:31:35.420 a Seattle middle school teacher

00:31:37.020 who in 2023 had her students

00:31:39.320 write letters to the parental right group

00:31:41.560 Moms for Liberty. 1.00

00:31:43.400 The group received a package of letters

00:31:45.380 from the teacher's students

00:31:46.840 accusing Moms of Liberty, quote, 1.00

00:31:49.040 of bullying LGBTQ youth.

00:31:52.400 The accusation was presumably

00:31:54.360 because the group's work

00:31:56.040 opposing hyper-sexualized content

00:31:58.320 in schools.

00:32:00.020 The social studies teacher,

00:32:01.440 who is also a coordinator

00:32:02.600 of the Gay-Straight Alliance

00:32:04.420 at Jane Addams Middle School in Seattle,

00:32:07.080 included a letter that said,

00:32:08.740 quote,

00:32:09.340 Dear Moms for Liberty, 1.00

00:32:11.060 please read the enclosed cards

00:32:12.880 from concerned middle school students

00:32:14.900 in Seattle, Washington.

00:32:16.540 One of the student letters said,

00:32:18.440 quote, 0.99

00:32:19.160 Gay is slay. 1.00

00:32:20.980 Stop being a rat. 1.00

00:32:23.200 What? 0.98

00:32:24.480 Seattle Public Schools said

00:32:26.000 the letters were, quote,

00:32:27.300 an independent activity,

00:32:29.320 not part of the school curriculum.

00:32:31.320 Well, maybe it wasn't part

00:32:32.820 of the official curriculum,

00:32:34.180 but according to Dewey's philosophy

00:32:35.740 of the teacher's proper role,

00:32:37.960 these students are learning

00:32:39.200 exactly what they're supposed to.

00:32:41.980 When the Bolshevik Revolution 0.58

00:32:43.420 brought Russia a communist regime 0.90

00:32:45.860 in 1918,

00:32:47.240 one of the first orders of business

00:32:48.740 was establishing early childhood

00:32:51.000 education centers all across the nation.

00:32:53.480 The Soviets opened 5,000 preschools

00:32:57.220 and kindergartens during 1920.

00:32:59.340 By 1931,

00:33:00.680 the New York Times reported

00:33:01.760 that there were more day nurseries

00:33:03.520 in the Soviet Union

00:33:04.620 than anywhere else in the world.

00:33:07.760 In 1924,

00:33:09.100 an American nurse

00:33:09.880 and progressive activist

00:33:11.220 named Lillian Wald

00:33:12.660 accepted an invitation

00:33:14.440 from the Soviet government

00:33:15.740 to visit the USSR.

00:33:17.760 She toured the Soviets' 0.74

00:33:19.180 early childhood experimental schools

00:33:21.180 and was thrilled with the results.

00:33:23.620 She reported back to John Dewey

00:33:25.100 that his educational philosophy

00:33:26.620 was being implemented,

00:33:28.420 quote,

00:33:29.240 not less than 150 percent,

00:33:32.420 end quote.

00:33:34.520 Like so many of his fellow progressives,

00:33:36.860 Dewey was enamored

00:33:37.920 with the new Soviet Union

00:33:39.320 and all the socialist possibilities

00:33:41.240 that it represented

00:33:42.480 for the scientific management

00:33:44.180 of society.

00:33:45.960 Dewey was a self-described

00:33:47.220 democratic socialist.

00:33:49.140 He was a longtime supporter

00:33:50.300 of Eugene Debs,

00:33:51.600 who ran for president

00:33:52.440 multiple times

00:33:53.360 as the Socialist Party of America

00:33:55.080 candidate.

00:33:56.340 Dewey was against

00:33:57.540 the laissez-faire capitalism

00:33:59.120 and for redistribution of income.

00:34:02.280 He advocated, quote,

00:34:03.920 organized social planning.

00:34:05.540 But he was also smart enough

00:34:07.340 to understand that socialism

00:34:08.560 was an anathema

00:34:09.760 to most average Americans.

00:34:12.080 In the 1930s,

00:34:13.180 he even tried to convince

00:34:14.140 the Socialist Party of America

00:34:15.560 to get rid of the socialist

00:34:17.440 part of their name.

00:34:20.220 All of this helps to explain

00:34:21.900 why Dewey went on his own tour

00:34:24.040 of the Soviet Union in 1928.

00:34:26.720 In short,

00:34:27.920 he was very impressed

00:34:29.780 by what he saw.

00:34:31.580 Dewey wrote in a series of articles

00:34:33.140 about the Soviet Union

00:34:34.640 for The New Republic,

00:34:36.540 which was the most influential

00:34:38.040 progressive publication

00:34:39.480 in the U.S. at the time.

00:34:41.600 In these articles,

00:34:42.660 Dewey praised the Soviet Union

00:34:44.460 and said it was difficult

00:34:45.640 not to feel envious

00:34:47.060 of the Soviet intellectuals.

00:34:49.360 And naturally,

00:34:50.360 Dewey loved what he saw

00:34:51.460 about Soviet education.

00:34:53.380 He said,

00:34:54.040 I have never seen anywhere

00:34:55.140 in the world

00:34:55.720 such a large proportion

00:34:56.940 of intelligent,

00:34:58.400 happy,

00:34:59.280 and intelligently

00:35:00.000 occupied children.

00:35:01.700 He said their teachers

00:35:02.580 were,

00:35:03.220 Some of the wisest

00:35:04.320 and most devoted

00:35:05.240 men and women

00:35:05.960 it has ever been

00:35:07.140 my fortune to meet.

00:35:10.120 Dewey eventually

00:35:10.820 turned his glowing review

00:35:12.320 into a book titled

00:35:13.440 Impressions of Soviet Russia

00:35:15.500 and the Revolutionary World.

00:35:18.280 Dewey and hundreds

00:35:19.080 of his fellow

00:35:19.680 American progressives

00:35:20.720 who also made pilgrimages

00:35:22.580 to the Soviet Union

00:35:23.820 thought they were finally

00:35:25.200 seeing their dreams

00:35:26.220 in action.

00:35:27.720 This is what could be

00:35:28.980 accomplished

00:35:29.500 when the experts

00:35:30.720 were put in charge.

00:35:31.940 By the time of

00:35:34.800 John Dewey's death

00:35:35.680 in 1952,

00:35:36.900 he was almost

00:35:37.500 universally viewed

00:35:38.700 as the most influential

00:35:40.380 educator in American history.

00:35:42.940 The New York Times

00:35:43.980 obituary referred to Dewey

00:35:45.400 as America's philosopher.

00:35:47.820 In the same obituary,

00:35:49.320 one historian called Dewey,

00:35:51.000 quote,

00:35:51.200 The Guide,

00:35:52.600 The Mentor,

00:35:53.560 and the Conscience

00:35:54.460 of the American People.

00:35:56.260 It is scarcely an exaggeration

00:35:58.200 to say that for a generation,

00:36:00.680 no major issue

00:36:01.800 was clarified

00:36:02.640 until Dewey had spoken.

00:36:06.060 In 1960,

00:36:07.520 another historian said,

00:36:08.600 Where the philosophy

00:36:10.060 of John Dewey

00:36:10.920 has been applied in practice,

00:36:12.840 it has improved

00:36:13.520 the quality

00:36:14.080 of American education

00:36:15.300 more than the work

00:36:16.740 or ideas

00:36:17.440 of any other

00:36:18.560 single American,

00:36:19.560 living or dead.

00:36:22.540 Now,

00:36:22.760 not everybody

00:36:23.380 bought into the Dewey hype.

00:36:24.980 One critic

00:36:25.480 in The Atlantic

00:36:26.220 the year after Dewey's death

00:36:27.960 said the parents

00:36:29.040 must understand

00:36:29.860 Dewey's basic

00:36:30.700 philosophic beliefs

00:36:31.980 because,

00:36:32.420 quote,

00:36:33.420 Only then

00:36:34.380 will they really

00:36:35.640 understand

00:36:36.300 what evil influences

00:36:37.740 are at work

00:36:38.700 in our modern classrooms,

00:36:40.840 end quote.

00:36:42.060 The late historian

00:36:43.280 Richard Hofstadter

00:36:44.400 said,

00:36:44.940 the effect

00:36:46.000 of Dewey's philosophy

00:36:47.140 on the design

00:36:47.840 of curricular systems

00:36:48.940 was devastating,

00:36:50.800 end quote.

00:36:51.920 But Dewey's

00:36:52.680 progressive disciples

00:36:53.620 far outnumbered

00:36:54.940 his critics

00:36:55.520 and his brand

00:36:56.660 of progressive education

00:36:57.940 was entrenched.

00:37:00.080 Dewey wrote

00:37:00.520 37 books

00:37:01.460 and 766 articles

00:37:03.440 over his career.

00:37:04.800 He was the founder

00:37:05.460 and president

00:37:05.980 of the Progressive

00:37:06.820 Education Association.

00:37:08.680 He founded

00:37:09.340 the American Association

00:37:10.720 of University Professors.

00:37:12.420 He co-founded

00:37:13.620 the American Federation

00:37:14.860 of Teachers,

00:37:15.960 which today

00:37:16.740 is the second largest

00:37:18.100 teachers union

00:37:18.940 in America.

00:37:20.480 His imprint

00:37:21.200 was all over

00:37:22.880 American education

00:37:24.220 and still is.

00:37:25.940 In his 1935 book

00:37:27.580 Liberalism and Social Action,

00:37:30.000 Dewey wrote,

00:37:30.800 In short,

00:37:31.800 liberalism must now

00:37:32.780 become radical.

00:37:34.740 The cause of liberalism

00:37:35.960 will be lost

00:37:36.680 for a considerable period

00:37:37.980 if it is not prepared

00:37:39.240 to go further.

00:37:40.620 Oh, he need not worry.

00:37:41.720 There were more

00:37:42.940 than enough

00:37:43.400 progressive experts

00:37:44.380 prepared to take

00:37:45.560 his liberalism

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00:38:53.560 In the summer of 1962,

00:38:58.220 a group of disillusioned

00:38:59.500 socialist college students

00:39:00.860 assembled in Port Huron,

00:39:02.960 Michigan,

00:39:03.540 where they created

00:39:04.600 an activist group

00:39:05.600 called Students

00:39:06.440 for a Democratic Society.

00:39:09.120 Their first president,

00:39:10.020 Tom Hayden,

00:39:11.180 wrote most of their manifesto,

00:39:13.080 called the Port Huron Statement.

00:39:15.500 After dozens of pages

00:39:16.640 of grievances,

00:39:18.260 came a section titled

00:39:19.180 The University and Social Change.

00:39:21.500 This section spelled out

00:39:23.700 the progressive,

00:39:24.600 socialist,

00:39:25.380 Marxist plan

00:39:26.280 to take over

00:39:27.540 American education.

00:39:29.140 Essentially,

00:39:30.080 John Dewey

00:39:30.620 and his fellow

00:39:31.120 progressive elites

00:39:32.020 had already been

00:39:33.220 taking control

00:39:33.920 of the universities

00:39:34.620 for half a century.

00:39:36.120 But Dewey himself

00:39:37.280 had said in the 1930s,

00:39:39.400 liberalism now must

00:39:41.240 become radical.

00:39:43.220 So the Port Huron

00:39:44.480 Statement represented

00:39:45.540 the radicals

00:39:46.540 stepping up to the plate.

00:39:48.320 Here are a few excerpts

00:39:49.640 from their statement.

00:39:50.380 From where else

00:39:51.380 can power and vision

00:39:52.180 be summoned?

00:39:53.140 We believe that the universities

00:39:54.340 are an overlooked

00:39:55.180 seat of influence.

00:39:56.540 Its educational function

00:39:57.680 makes it indispensable

00:39:58.740 and automatically

00:39:59.840 makes it a crucial institution

00:40:01.340 in the formation

00:40:02.260 of social attitudes.

00:40:03.840 To turn these possibilities

00:40:05.300 into realities

00:40:06.100 will involve national efforts

00:40:07.520 at university reform

00:40:08.520 by an alliance

00:40:09.480 of students and faculty.

00:40:11.580 They must wrest control

00:40:13.020 of the educational process

00:40:14.640 from the administrative bureaucracy.

00:40:16.800 They must import 1.00

00:40:17.840 major public issues

00:40:19.120 into the curriculum.

00:40:20.620 They must consciously

00:40:21.500 build a base

00:40:22.320 for their assault

00:40:22.960 upon the low sea of power.

00:40:25.280 It's safe to say

00:40:26.520 this radical takeover

00:40:28.040 of the American university

00:40:29.300 has been quite successful.

00:40:32.120 Part of John Dewey's

00:40:33.440 educational philosophy

00:40:34.600 was that classrooms

00:40:35.860 should be training grounds

00:40:37.540 to change society.

00:40:39.760 Well, college professors

00:40:40.740 in the 1960s

00:40:41.860 put that concept

00:40:42.880 on steroids.

00:40:43.960 One prominent example,

00:40:46.100 the Brazilian Marxist educator

00:40:48.220 Paulo Freire.

00:40:50.160 He viewed schools

00:40:51.060 in the classroom

00:40:51.880 as true centers

00:40:53.200 for social action.

00:40:55.140 Here, it's not much

00:40:56.380 about ABCs

00:40:57.460 as it is about advocacy.

00:40:59.980 He was the pioneer

00:41:00.780 of what was known

00:41:01.860 as critical pedagogy.

00:41:04.540 Essentially,

00:41:05.260 it's a politicized theory

00:41:06.600 of education

00:41:07.320 that is the dominant theory

00:41:09.320 taught in the teacher

00:41:10.660 education programs

00:41:11.720 of colleges across America.

00:41:13.960 Critical Pedagogy

00:41:15.300 is all about

00:41:16.680 instilling students

00:41:17.800 with a worldview

00:41:18.860 of oppression

00:41:19.900 and political activism

00:41:21.660 as the highest response

00:41:23.300 to that oppression.

00:41:25.760 This movement's sacred text

00:41:27.580 is a 1968 book

00:41:28.900 called

00:41:29.280 Pedagogy of the Oppressed.

00:41:31.740 Somehow,

00:41:32.240 Paulo's book

00:41:33.000 has sold millions of copies

00:41:34.740 and continues to be celebrated

00:41:37.060 in preeminent

00:41:37.980 teacher education programs.

00:41:40.500 Basically,

00:41:41.400 Freire took Marxist theory

00:41:43.260 of the oppressor

00:41:44.560 versus the oppressed

00:41:45.420 and applied it

00:41:46.560 to the relationship

00:41:47.380 between teacher

00:41:48.340 and student.

00:41:49.780 As you can probably guess,

00:41:51.840 in Freire's conception,

00:41:53.600 the student

00:41:54.100 is the oppressed.

00:41:56.000 Through Freire's

00:41:56.860 education revolution,

00:41:58.780 student and teacher

00:41:59.740 became equal partners

00:42:01.260 in political activism.

00:42:03.200 From this base,

00:42:05.160 many streams

00:42:05.940 of oppressed

00:42:06.640 and oppressor flow,

00:42:08.140 including perhaps

00:42:08.900 the largest

00:42:09.740 and most influential stream

00:42:11.900 in recent years,

00:42:13.400 critical race theory.

00:42:16.160 Gender, race, sexuality.

00:42:18.560 The grid expands

00:42:19.440 from Freire's pedagogy

00:42:21.160 of the oppressed.

00:42:22.740 And now,

00:42:23.600 that grid

00:42:24.240 acts as a lens,

00:42:25.840 a sort of decoder ring

00:42:27.340 for understanding

00:42:28.280 and undermining

00:42:29.820 American society.

00:42:31.600 Through this grid,

00:42:33.240 there is only oppression.

00:42:34.860 The only question is

00:42:36.860 where you fit

00:42:38.080 on the grid.

00:42:40.100 Ultimately,

00:42:40.880 critical pedagogy

00:42:41.840 leads students

00:42:42.700 to criticize everything.

00:42:44.940 So even something

00:42:45.840 like reading

00:42:46.500 a classic novel

00:42:47.520 in English class

00:42:48.820 or solving math problems

00:42:50.380 becomes exercises

00:42:51.940 in identifying oppression.

00:42:55.060 Critical pedagogy

00:42:56.020 has long been

00:42:57.180 the state of the art

00:42:58.300 in teaching

00:42:58.960 or the expert science

00:43:01.160 in the field.

00:43:02.220 At Columbia University,

00:43:03.480 where John Dewey built

00:43:04.700 the Teachers College

00:43:05.700 that is still renowned today,

00:43:08.320 course offerings

00:43:08.960 include classes titled

00:43:10.500 Child Development

00:43:11.860 and Intersectional Identities,

00:43:15.040 Black, Latina,

00:43:16.600 and Transnational Feminisms, 0.99

00:43:19.480 anti-racist curriculum,

00:43:21.860 pedagogy,

00:43:23.020 leadership,

00:43:23.840 and policy,

00:43:25.460 race, gender,

00:43:26.900 and education.

00:43:27.980 The list goes on.

00:43:33.480 In 2019,

00:43:35.120 Jay Shalen

00:43:35.880 conducted a study

00:43:36.980 for the James G. Martin Center

00:43:38.900 for Academic Renewal.

00:43:41.200 It looked at the required readings

00:43:43.200 for all education courses

00:43:44.420 at three leading teacher colleges,

00:43:46.860 the University of Wisconsin,

00:43:48.460 University of Michigan,

00:43:49.900 and the University of North Carolina.

00:43:52.020 The study found

00:43:53.100 that the top three authors

00:43:54.440 that education students

00:43:56.080 at those schools

00:43:56.900 are required to read are

00:43:58.460 Gloria Ladson Billings,

00:44:00.840 a critical race theorist

00:44:02.320 who has been pushing CRT

00:44:03.720 since the 1990s,

00:44:05.640 Linda Darling-Hammond,

00:44:07.680 a top education advisor

00:44:09.020 to President Obama,

00:44:10.760 and the author of

00:44:11.740 Civil Rights Road

00:44:12.920 to Deeper Learning,

00:44:14.600 Five Essentials for Equity,

00:44:16.740 and in third place

00:44:18.440 was Paolo Ferre.

00:44:20.520 By the way,

00:44:21.540 John Dewey still ranked

00:44:22.700 as the fifth

00:44:23.740 most frequently assigned author.

00:44:25.740 In the study,

00:44:27.580 Jay Shalen writes,

00:44:28.980 quote,

00:44:29.860 Teacher education

00:44:30.860 has become one of the most

00:44:31.860 politicized corners

00:44:32.920 of academia,

00:44:34.320 an institution

00:44:34.960 that's already out of step

00:44:36.440 with the rest of the country

00:44:37.360 politically.

00:44:38.740 Education schools

00:44:39.680 are leading the change

00:44:40.940 to transform the nation,

00:44:42.780 and that transformation

00:44:43.600 is not leading us

00:44:44.920 to a better,

00:44:45.720 freer,

00:44:46.160 more prosperous,

00:44:47.420 more humane society.

00:44:49.500 Politics is now

00:44:50.320 so ingrained

00:44:51.180 in the education schools,

00:44:52.860 it seems almost impossible

00:44:54.480 for reform to occur.

00:44:56.880 End quote.

00:44:58.440 Even the once radical

00:44:59.780 takeover of college campuses

00:45:01.280 was complete,

00:45:02.500 the experts continue

00:45:03.840 finding new ways

00:45:04.900 to apply oppression grid

00:45:06.100 to everything.

00:45:07.400 Students at the University

00:45:08.440 of Florida

00:45:08.880 can take a course

00:45:09.720 called Black Hair Politics.

00:45:12.040 There's Ecofeminism 0.88

00:45:13.220 at the University

00:45:14.260 of South Carolina.

00:45:15.780 At Swarthmore College,

00:45:17.020 there's Queering God, 0.73

00:45:18.740 Feminist and Queer Theology. 0.91

00:45:20.860 Or Middlebury College

00:45:22.080 keeps things simple

00:45:23.180 with a class called

00:45:24.200 White People. 0.77

00:45:27.400 An extensive 2020 study

00:45:29.800 by the Foundation

00:45:30.680 for Individual Rights

00:45:31.880 in Education

00:45:32.560 showed that 50%

00:45:34.460 of U.S. college students

00:45:35.900 consider themselves

00:45:37.340 progressives,

00:45:38.380 while 26%

00:45:39.800 are conservatives.

00:45:41.640 In 2018,

00:45:42.940 a group of professors

00:45:43.800 from separate universities

00:45:45.220 studied a sample

00:45:46.480 of over 7,000 students

00:45:48.220 from 120 colleges.

00:45:50.240 their results

00:45:51.300 showed the students

00:45:52.240 demonstrated,

00:45:53.100 quote,

00:45:53.320 an increase

00:45:54.600 in appreciative

00:45:55.440 attitudes

00:45:56.440 towards progressives

00:45:57.940 after just

00:45:59.160 one year

00:46:00.260 in college.

00:46:01.840 A 2023 study

00:46:03.000 by two professors

00:46:03.760 at West Virginia University

00:46:05.160 found that,

00:46:06.000 quote,

00:46:06.620 agents of higher education

00:46:07.960 institutions

00:46:08.880 hold a preference

00:46:10.180 for progressively

00:46:11.380 minded individuals.

00:46:13.480 End quote.

00:46:13.880 So how did they reach

00:46:15.620 that conclusion?

00:46:17.340 Well,

00:46:17.660 by sending emails

00:46:18.460 to admission counselors

00:46:19.660 at 500 U.S. colleges.

00:46:21.820 Some of the emails

00:46:22.580 included their pronouns

00:46:23.920 in the signature line.

00:46:25.800 Their study found

00:46:26.620 that the admission counselors

00:46:27.720 gave preferential treatment

00:46:29.200 to the emails

00:46:30.040 with the signature line pronouns.

00:46:33.080 They even found

00:46:33.740 that the counselors' responses

00:46:35.000 to those using pronouns

00:46:36.460 were much friendlier,

00:46:37.980 including, quote,

00:46:39.100 a heightened use

00:46:40.200 of exclamation marks

00:46:41.600 and emojis.

00:46:42.700 End quote.

00:46:44.100 In 1989,

00:46:45.220 the Higher Education

00:46:45.960 Research Institute

00:46:47.080 conducted their first survey

00:46:48.740 on political ideology

00:46:50.120 among college professors.

00:46:52.260 They found 42% 0.91

00:46:53.620 identified as being

00:46:54.580 on the left,

00:46:55.480 40% were moderate,

00:46:57.380 18% conservative.

00:46:59.500 The same survey

00:47:00.640 in 2017

00:47:01.580 found 60%

00:47:03.320 on the left

00:47:04.040 and just 12%

00:47:05.940 conservative.

00:47:06.920 So in less

00:47:07.560 than three decades,

00:47:08.720 the ratio

00:47:09.260 of left-wing faculty

00:47:10.700 to conservative

00:47:11.540 more than double.

00:47:15.980 Overwhelmingly

00:47:16.660 progressive faculty

00:47:17.880 teaching overwhelmingly

00:47:19.400 progressive students

00:47:20.780 equals

00:47:21.820 a disproportionate amount

00:47:23.900 of confirmation bias.

00:47:26.460 It's easy to see

00:47:27.240 how this feedback loop

00:47:28.600 results in students

00:47:29.580 and professors alike

00:47:31.040 thinking left-wing ideology

00:47:33.360 is simply the default way

00:47:35.480 that smart people think.

00:47:38.040 Remember that part

00:47:39.180 of the Port Huron statement

00:47:40.820 that I read

00:47:41.460 and their aim

00:47:42.160 was to wrest control

00:47:43.140 of the education process

00:47:44.340 from the administrative bureaucracy?

00:47:46.940 That mission

00:47:47.900 has been thoroughly accomplished.

00:47:49.980 According to a study

00:47:50.780 done by Samuel J. Abrams,

00:47:52.560 a professor at

00:47:53.280 Sarah Lawrence College,

00:47:55.100 71% of college administrators

00:47:57.540 identify as progressive

00:47:58.880 versus just 6%

00:48:01.340 who are willing

00:48:02.520 to admit

00:48:03.220 they're conservative.

00:48:05.200 Abrams' study

00:48:05.940 yielded a remarkable find

00:48:08.040 that 54% 0.97

00:48:09.700 of college administrators

00:48:11.060 have an education degree.

00:48:13.700 That means those

00:48:14.620 the most powerful

00:48:16.020 in the most influential positions

00:48:18.560 in our colleges

00:48:19.640 have been trained

00:48:21.120 in critical pedagogy

00:48:22.720 and believe in it

00:48:24.020 the most.

00:48:25.200 As Abrams put it,

00:48:26.680 America's education programs

00:48:29.520 are dangerous

00:48:30.600 for higher education

00:48:31.900 because they adhere

00:48:33.180 to the pedagogy

00:48:34.180 that transforms

00:48:35.240 their graduates

00:48:36.300 into activists.

00:48:38.700 Activists.

00:48:40.160 Their training teaches

00:48:41.340 future administrations

00:48:42.900 to disconstruct

00:48:44.720 the society

00:48:45.600 in which they live

00:48:47.220 and promote their views

00:48:48.560 at work

00:48:49.300 in dining halls,

00:48:50.820 dormitories,

00:48:51.920 and throughout campus.

00:48:53.320 This is how you get

00:48:56.560 the college presidents

00:48:57.440 of Harvard,

00:48:58.360 University of Pennsylvania,

00:49:00.120 and the Massachusetts

00:49:01.000 Institute of Technology

00:49:02.580 answering the way

00:49:03.620 they did before Congress.

00:49:05.280 When asked about

00:49:05.980 anti-Semitism

00:49:06.660 on their campuses

00:49:07.560 in December of 2023,

00:49:09.980 here's New York

00:49:10.960 Representative

00:49:11.600 Elise Stefanik

00:49:12.760 questioning

00:49:13.380 Liz McGill

00:49:14.520 and Claudine Gay.

00:49:16.100 Ms. McGill,

00:49:17.240 at Penn,

00:49:18.280 does calling

00:49:18.960 for the genocide

00:49:19.720 of Jews

00:49:20.580 violate Penn's

00:49:22.040 rules or code

00:49:23.120 of conduct?

00:49:24.000 Yes or no?

00:49:28.080 If the speech

00:49:29.140 turns into conduct,

00:49:30.480 it can be harassment.

00:49:31.660 Yes.

00:49:31.980 I am asking,

00:49:33.500 specifically calling

00:49:34.640 for the genocide 0.98

00:49:35.320 of Jews,

00:49:36.420 does that constitute

00:49:37.840 bullying or harassment?

00:49:40.860 If it is directed

00:49:42.440 and severe or pervasive,

00:49:43.740 it is harassment.

00:49:44.960 So the answer is yes.

00:49:46.920 It is a context-dependent

00:49:48.380 decision, Congresswoman.

00:49:49.620 It's a context-dependent

00:49:51.100 decision.

00:49:51.440 That's your testimony today.

00:49:52.840 Calling for the genocide 0.91

00:49:53.880 of Jews is depending 0.83

00:49:55.180 upon the context.

00:49:56.600 That is not bullying

00:49:57.700 or harassment.

00:49:59.160 This is the easiest

00:50:00.140 question to answer.

00:50:01.760 Yes, Ms. McGill.

00:50:03.640 So is your testimony

00:50:04.840 that you will not

00:50:05.660 answer yes?

00:50:06.960 If it is,

00:50:09.280 if the speech becomes,

00:50:10.280 if the speech becomes

00:50:11.440 conduct,

00:50:12.400 it can be harassment.

00:50:14.020 Yes.

00:50:14.320 Conduct meaning

00:50:15.100 committing the act

00:50:16.200 of genocide?

00:50:16.700 Dr. Gay,

00:50:19.540 at Harvard, 0.96

00:50:21.040 does calling for

00:50:21.720 the genocide of Jews

00:50:22.800 violate Harvard's rules

00:50:24.180 of bullying and harassment,

00:50:25.680 yes or no?

00:50:27.360 It can be,

00:50:28.200 depending on the context.

00:50:30.160 What's the context?

00:50:31.860 Targeted as an individual.

00:50:33.600 Targeted at an individual.

00:50:35.360 It's targeted

00:50:36.020 at Jewish students,

00:50:37.640 Jewish individuals.

00:50:38.980 Do you understand

00:50:40.060 your testimony

00:50:40.740 is dehumanizing them?

00:50:42.240 Do you understand

00:50:43.620 that dehumanization

00:50:45.020 is part of antisemitism?

00:50:48.040 I will ask you

00:50:49.080 one more time.

00:50:50.980 Does calling

00:50:51.600 for the genocide

00:50:52.360 of Jews

00:50:53.320 violate Harvard's rules

00:50:55.080 of bullying and harassment,

00:50:56.960 yes or no?

00:50:58.940 Anti-Semitic rhetoric

00:51:00.020 when it crosses into conduct

00:51:02.020 anti-Semitic rhetoric

00:51:03.700 when it crosses into conduct

00:51:05.420 that amounts to bullying,

00:51:07.520 harassment,

00:51:08.500 intimidation,

00:51:09.720 that is actionable conduct

00:51:11.840 and we do take action?

00:51:13.900 So, the answer is yes,

00:51:16.240 that calling 0.61

00:51:16.780 for the genocide of Jews

00:51:18.300 violates Harvard's code

00:51:20.080 of conduct, correct?

00:51:23.220 Again, it depends

00:51:24.780 on the context.

00:51:25.680 It does not depend

00:51:26.660 on the context.

00:51:27.760 The answer is yes,

00:51:29.080 and this is why

00:51:29.880 you should resign.

00:51:30.980 These are unacceptable answers

00:51:32.420 across the board.

00:51:34.680 Shortly after,

00:51:36.000 both Liz McGill

00:51:36.820 and Claudine Gay

00:51:37.660 resigned as presidents

00:51:39.040 of Penn and Harvard.

00:51:40.140 Social psychologist

00:51:41.760 and author

00:51:42.420 Jonathan Haidt

00:51:43.380 wrote an insightful article

00:51:45.080 Why Anti-Semitism

00:51:46.760 Sprouted So Quickly

00:51:47.960 on Campus.

00:51:49.520 He says the students

00:51:50.500 have learned

00:51:51.100 a new morality

00:51:52.200 that trained them,

00:51:54.620 quote,

00:51:55.340 to view everyone

00:51:56.520 either as an oppressor

00:51:57.780 or a victim.

00:51:59.160 Students were taught

00:51:59.920 to use identity

00:52:00.960 as the primary lens

00:52:02.600 through which everything

00:52:03.680 is to be understood,

00:52:05.260 not just in their coursework,

00:52:06.520 but in their personal

00:52:08.460 and political lives.

00:52:10.240 When students are taught

00:52:11.240 to use a single lens

00:52:12.760 for everything,

00:52:14.300 their education

00:52:14.940 is harming them.

00:52:16.760 Rather than improving

00:52:17.800 their ability

00:52:18.440 to think critically,

00:52:20.000 this new morality

00:52:21.520 is what drove

00:52:23.100 universities off a cliff.

00:52:24.880 Before 1963,

00:52:31.400 the state of Pennsylvania

00:52:32.560 required by law

00:52:34.080 that its public students

00:52:35.600 begin each day

00:52:36.840 of class

00:52:37.600 with the Pledge of Allegiance

00:52:39.160 and a reading

00:52:40.420 from the Bible.

00:52:41.920 In 1956,

00:52:43.180 a suburban Philadelphia

00:52:44.160 high school junior

00:52:45.340 named Ellery Shemp

00:52:46.700 decided he'd had enough

00:52:48.580 of school days

00:52:49.320 starting with Bible verses.

00:52:51.040 He thought

00:52:51.340 it was discriminatory,

00:52:52.720 so he pulled up a chair

00:52:53.960 to his dad's typewriter

00:52:55.340 and tapped out

00:52:56.120 the following letter

00:52:57.040 to the ACLU.

00:52:59.000 As a student

00:52:59.740 in my junior year,

00:53:01.060 I'd very greatly appreciate

00:53:02.480 any information

00:53:03.380 you might send

00:53:04.140 regarding possible action

00:53:05.520 and or aid

00:53:06.580 in testing

00:53:07.380 the constitutionality

00:53:08.680 of a Pennsylvania law

00:53:09.920 which arbitrarily

00:53:11.320 and seemingly unrighteously

00:53:13.300 and unconstitutionally

00:53:14.700 compels the Bible

00:53:16.080 to be read

00:53:16.680 in our public school system.

00:53:18.940 I thank you

00:53:19.520 for any help

00:53:20.200 you might offer

00:53:20.880 in freeing American youth

00:53:22.160 in Pennsylvania

00:53:22.900 from this gross violation.

00:53:26.680 A district court ruled

00:53:28.260 in Shemp's favor

00:53:29.280 and struck down

00:53:30.140 the new law

00:53:30.700 requiring that public school days

00:53:32.280 begin with the reading

00:53:33.280 from the Bible.

00:53:34.000 However,

00:53:34.880 Shemp's school district

00:53:36.000 appealed the decision

00:53:37.180 and the Pennsylvania legislature

00:53:39.120 amended its law

00:53:40.460 to allow students

00:53:41.420 who objected

00:53:42.340 to be exempt

00:53:43.360 from the Bible reading.

00:53:44.600 But that exemption

00:53:45.700 was not good enough

00:53:47.160 for Shemp

00:53:47.700 and his family

00:53:48.480 who continued

00:53:49.220 their lawsuit.

00:53:49.980 ultimately in 1963

00:53:52.460 the U.S. Supreme Court

00:53:53.900 ruled in 0.94

00:53:54.660 Abington School District

00:53:56.080 v. Shemp

00:53:57.060 that school-sponsored

00:53:59.000 Bible reading 0.52

00:53:59.680 is government-endorsed

00:54:01.080 of a particular religion.

00:54:03.300 Therefore,

00:54:03.780 in the opinion

00:54:04.200 of eight judges to one,

00:54:05.760 this violated

00:54:06.500 the Establishment Clause

00:54:07.920 of the First Amendment.

00:54:08.860 Fast forward now,

00:54:10.820 2023, Pennsylvania.

00:54:12.720 Democrat Karen Smith

00:54:14.120 sworn in

00:54:15.060 as the new president

00:54:15.920 of the Central Bucks

00:54:16.920 District School Board.

00:54:18.340 Instead of using

00:54:18.920 a Bible for her ceremony,

00:54:20.980 Smith placed her hand

00:54:21.960 on a stack

00:54:22.540 of sexually explicit books,

00:54:24.880 some of which

00:54:25.640 had been banned

00:54:26.360 from school libraries

00:54:27.480 by the district

00:54:28.260 she now leads.

00:54:30.600 Smith explained,

00:54:31.460 quote,

00:54:31.560 The Bible doesn't hold 0.98

00:54:32.580 any significant meaning

00:54:33.940 for me.

00:54:34.920 And given everything

00:54:35.540 that has occurred

00:54:36.180 in the last couple of years,

00:54:37.340 the banned books,

00:54:38.660 they do mean something

00:54:39.860 to me at this point.

00:54:41.780 The book she used

00:54:42.880 for her swearing-in

00:54:43.780 included one titled

00:54:44.800 All Boys Aren't Blue, 0.87

00:54:47.240 about a young, 0.60

00:54:48.160 black gay man.

00:54:49.660 The book contains 0.98

00:54:50.560 sexually explicit passages,

00:54:52.480 which Smith told

00:54:53.380 the Philadelphia Inquirer

00:54:54.540 are, quote,

00:54:55.500 intense.

00:54:56.840 Other titles include

00:54:58.260 Flamer,

00:54:59.260 a graphic novel

00:55:00.220 with illustration

00:55:01.240 of nude teenage boys 0.99

00:55:03.160 showering and masturbating, 0.99

00:55:05.200 and Beyond Magenta, 0.99

00:55:06.880 and Lillian Duncan, 0.98

00:55:08.600 both stories

00:55:09.340 about transgender teenagers.

00:55:12.280 In 60 years,

00:55:14.160 America went from 0.69

00:55:15.160 classrooms starting the day

00:55:16.780 with a reading

00:55:17.700 from the Bible

00:55:18.560 to a school board president

00:55:20.700 being sworn in

00:55:21.800 on a stack

00:55:22.600 of sexually explicit books.

00:55:26.040 The progressive drive

00:55:27.700 continues to be

00:55:28.680 protecting these kinds of books

00:55:30.020 from any objections

00:55:31.020 by parents.

00:55:32.320 In September 2023,

00:55:33.600 the Biden administration

00:55:34.320 hired a new deputy

00:55:35.480 assistant secretary,

00:55:36.880 for the Office of Civil Rights.

00:55:39.120 The new hire is dedicated

00:55:40.780 to monitoring efforts

00:55:42.140 to keep certain books

00:55:43.440 out of the public school library.

00:55:46.280 The Department of Education

00:55:47.500 official told reporters,

00:55:48.800 quote,

00:55:48.920 Across the country,

00:55:50.460 communities are seeing

00:55:51.380 a rise in efforts

00:55:52.240 to ban books,

00:55:53.660 efforts that are often

00:55:54.560 designed to empty libraries

00:55:56.540 and classrooms

00:55:57.400 of literature

00:55:58.440 about LGBTQ people,

00:56:00.460 people of color,

00:56:01.320 people of faith,

00:56:02.640 key historical events,

00:56:04.260 and so much more.

00:56:06.380 Clearly,

00:56:07.200 the oppression grid

00:56:08.260 now takes precedence

00:56:09.640 over the well-being

00:56:10.440 of students.

00:56:11.540 It's a little wonder

00:56:12.480 that a 2023 Gallup poll

00:56:14.420 found that public schools

00:56:15.660 are now trusted

00:56:16.920 by only 26% of Americans,

00:56:20.120 the same percentage

00:56:21.440 of people

00:56:21.940 that trust banks,

00:56:23.880 large technology companies,

00:56:25.780 and the presidency.

00:56:27.980 The progressive education expertise

00:56:31.040 is not producing

00:56:32.420 better-educated Americans.

00:56:34.440 A century of Deweyism

00:56:35.940 and a half-century

00:56:36.920 of the pedagogy

00:56:38.220 of the oppressed

00:56:39.180 has resulted in things

00:56:40.860 like the Oregon

00:56:41.640 Department of Education

00:56:42.840 announcing in 2023

00:56:44.160 that it is removing

00:56:45.780 proficiency

00:56:46.680 in reading and writing

00:56:48.380 as a requirement

00:56:49.600 for students to graduate.

00:56:51.820 In a statement,

00:56:52.840 the department called

00:56:53.520 the standards, quote,

00:56:54.540 burdensome

00:56:55.280 to teachers and students.

00:56:57.540 In Baltimore,

00:56:58.360 the city's public school system

00:56:59.600 lowered its math standards

00:57:01.060 multiple times

00:57:02.320 through the 2010s.

00:57:04.500 By 2023,

00:57:05.800 the city had 13 high schools

00:57:07.940 in which zero students

00:57:10.160 scored proficient in math

00:57:12.020 on the state test.

00:57:13.560 Zero.

00:57:14.780 In the Olympia School District

00:57:16.120 in Washington State,

00:57:17.640 the school board voted

00:57:18.540 in 2023

00:57:19.320 to eliminate

00:57:20.120 fourth- and fifth-grade

00:57:21.380 band and orchestra classes

00:57:23.040 in the district.

00:57:24.260 According to the school board director,

00:57:26.460 the district is, quote,

00:57:27.820 entrenched in

00:57:28.860 and surrounded

00:57:29.580 by white supremacy culture.

00:57:32.420 He went on to explain

00:57:33.540 that music classes

00:57:34.480 were not necessarily

00:57:35.720 white supremacist,

00:57:36.940 but they have the potential 0.97

00:57:38.640 to perpetuate

00:57:39.640 racist culture

00:57:40.620 in the district.

00:57:41.960 And Evanston,

00:57:42.780 Illinois High School

00:57:43.620 now has segregated classes

00:57:45.400 as options

00:57:46.580 for both black

00:57:47.460 and Hispanic students only.

00:57:49.640 They're called

00:57:50.220 affinity classes

00:57:51.480 and they're taught

00:57:52.640 by non-white teachers.

00:57:54.320 No white students 1.00

00:57:55.060 are allowed

00:57:55.540 in the affinity classes.

00:57:57.120 The theory is

00:57:57.800 that black and Hispanic students

00:57:59.180 will perform better academically

00:58:00.820 if they're separated

00:58:01.920 from white students.

00:58:03.520 And then there's

00:58:04.400 the elementary school

00:58:05.280 near San Francisco

00:58:06.360 that spent $250,000

00:58:08.020 to hire an organization

00:58:09.920 called Woke Kindergarten.

00:58:12.320 The money came in

00:58:13.200 from federal funds

00:58:14.400 earmarked to help improve

00:58:15.920 the nation's

00:58:16.600 worst-performing schools.

00:58:18.740 Woke Kindergarten

00:58:19.780 describes itself

00:58:20.740 as, quote,

00:58:21.700 Here's a clip

00:58:40.300 from one of their videos

00:58:41.320 of the students.

00:58:42.740 It's entitled

00:58:43.580 Identities Are Dope. 1.00

00:58:46.300 What are some of yours?

00:58:47.900 After watching

00:58:48.460 my first video,

00:58:49.540 you might be wondering,

00:58:50.740 is Key a boy?

00:58:53.100 Or a girl? 0.74

00:58:54.260 I have a lot of identities.

00:58:55.800 But boy or girl

00:58:56.620 isn't one of them.

00:58:58.420 I'm just Key.

00:58:59.380 And I feel most free

00:59:00.300 being me.

00:59:01.900 How did we get

00:59:03.200 from the blue-back speller

00:59:04.920 to Woke Kindergarten?

00:59:07.360 Far too much time,

00:59:08.820 money,

00:59:09.080 and trust

00:59:10.400 in false expertise.

00:59:14.180 In 1892,

00:59:16.300 a 37-year-old New Yorker

00:59:17.900 named Francis Bellamy

00:59:19.660 wrote the Pledge of Allegiance

00:59:21.300 as an assignment

00:59:22.520 for a popular magazine

00:59:23.720 called The Youth's Companion.

00:59:26.800 Why do students today

00:59:27.820 still recite

00:59:28.640 the Pledge of Allegiance

00:59:29.660 each morning at school?

00:59:31.520 Because Bellamy

00:59:32.680 enlisted the largest

00:59:34.320 teachers' union,

00:59:35.920 the National Education Association,

00:59:38.120 to incorporate the Pledge

00:59:39.740 as part of the

00:59:41.180 daily classroom routine.

00:59:44.080 To talk about patriotism

00:59:45.540 in the schools

00:59:46.180 is not enough,

00:59:47.640 he said to NEA members

00:59:48.980 at their annual meeting

00:59:50.040 in 1892.

00:59:51.820 Then,

00:59:52.600 Bellamy made a profound

00:59:53.800 statement to the crowd.

00:59:56.120 Surely,

00:59:56.600 nobody has ever dreamed

00:59:57.620 how right it would

00:59:58.420 turn out to be.

00:59:59.720 He said,

01:00:01.040 the schoolmaster,

01:00:02.320 after all,

01:00:03.620 holds the future

01:00:04.680 of American politics.

01:00:08.120 or

01:00:11.820 has

01:00:12.900 a

01:00:13.920 good

01:00:14.580 one

01:00:16.700 Whatever

01:00:17.540 and

01:00:17.840 then,

01:00:19.040 they're told to do you

01:00:20.220 get a wise

01:00:20.680 here and

01:00:22.060 and

01:00:25.640 to that

01:00:26.400 the

01:00:26.900 point

01:00:27.100 is

01:00:27.140 to

01:00:27.560 или

01:00:27.760 or

01:00:29.660 to

The Glenn Beck Program - June 29, 2024

Ep 4 ｜ The Progressive 'Experts' Who Radicalized US Education ｜ The Beck Story

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