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.
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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