30. The Geneticist's Manifesto: The Underground History of American
Education by John Taylor Gatto from archive.org
The
Geneticist's Manifesto
Meanwhile, at the
project offices of an important employer of experts, the Rockefeller Foundation, friends were hearing from
Max Mason, its president, that a comprehensive national program was underway to allow, in Mason's words,
"the
control of human behavior."
This dazzling ambition was announced on April 11, 1933. Schooling figured prominently in the design.
Rockefeller had been
inspired by the work of Eastern European scientist Hermann Muller to invest heavily in genetics. Muller
had used x-rays to override genetic law, inducing mutations in fruit flies. This seemed to open the door to
the scientific control of life itself.
Muller preached that planned breeding would bring mankind to paradise
faster than God. His proposal
received enthusiastic endorsement from the greatest scientists of the day
as well as from powerful economic
interests.
Muller would win the
Nobel Prize, reduce his proposal to a fifteen-hundred-word Geneticists ' Manifesto, and watch with
satisfaction as twenty-two distinguished
American and British biologists of the day signed it. The state must
prepare to consciously guide human
sexual selection, said Muller. School would have to separate worthwhile breeders from those slated
for termination.
Just a few months
before this report was released, an executive director of the National Education Association announced that
his organization expected "to accomplish by education what dictators in Europe are seeking to do by
compulsion and force." You
can't get much clearer than that. WWII drove the project underground,
but hardly retarded its momentum.
Following cessation of global hostilities, school became a major domestic battleground for the
scientific rationalization of social affairs through compulsory indoctrination. Great private corporate
foundations led the way.
Participatory Democracy Put To The Sword
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