The Glenn Beck Program - June 29, 2024


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


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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!
00:02:23.600 Gaza, Gaza, you will rise!
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.
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.
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.
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,
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,
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.
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,
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,
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,
00:32:19.160 Gay is slay.
00:32:20.980 Stop being a rat.
00:32:23.200 What?
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
00:32:43.420 brought Russia a communist regime
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'
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
00:37:46.540 much, much further.
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00:37:51.160 just to live our lives
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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
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,
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
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,
00:45:18.740 Feminist and Queer Theology.
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.
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%
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%
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
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
00:49:53.880 of Jews is depending
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,
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
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
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
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
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,
00:54:47.240 about a young,
00:54:48.160 black gay man.
00:54:49.660 The book contains
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
00:55:03.160 showering and masturbating,
00:55:05.200 and Beyond Magenta,
00:55:06.880 and Lillian Duncan,
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
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
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
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.
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?
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