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Blurring of distinctions (not only violates 1st Principles) but also ‘creates a practical public legal [& pedagogical] & political problem; absent Creator👉Creation clarity, there can be no justified preference for liberty as opposed to tyranny’. No REASON only “preference”. 2/That👆was where I found myself when 1st needing to push back against the woke onslaught in Education. In a subjectivist pit, with no awareness of how to get out, or even that it was possible to. I didn’t know what the foot-holes were or where the ladder was. My resistance to..

As promised; a 🧵of threads from ‘Bending The Twig’ in its entirety - the most significant resource I’ve shared on this platform. Well worth book marking as it sets out the source of Education subversion & demonstrates how it has always been about Constitutional Liberty.
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https://twitter.com/thepalmerworm/status/1801428649888948729

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https://twitter.com/thepalmerworm/status/1801715799918583811

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‘It was the uniquely American school of philosophy, Pragmatism, which ultimately displaced Reid’s SCSR in America’
(Kim Riddlebargar - pics 1 & 2) ~ pics 3 & 4 Emmanuel Renault

I research these philosophical threads not because I’m “interested in philosophy” No🙄😣…….





2/ I do this because there is a forensic trail threading backwards from current Critical Constructivist (Woke) Education PoliticoPedagogues back to John Dewey (Father of Western Education & Teacher Training) who subverted & supplanted the meaning of ‘Liberal’ through his……

🧵Continuation of ‘Bending The Twig’ (Rudd)
‘As a natural concomitance, there follows the downgrading of nationalism. Patriotism & nationalism were not Sophist interests.’

Do you see now why I wanted to learn about the Enlightenment philosophers who were against Sophistry!!





2/‘Hegel - stressed the vital need & worth of an autocratic state’

‘Marx - one of THE MOST IMPORTANT INFLUENCES IN SHAPING THE “NEW” EDUCATION FROM WHOSE FFEVTS WE ARE NOW SUFFERING’

🧵Continuation of ‘Bending The Twig’ (Rudd)
‘the great value of history - not to live in the past but to illuminate the present & safeguard the future’

Past-Present-Future linear “progression” has been a way to invalidate the eternally present dynamics of human nature & cosmos.



2/‘This sabotage of history springs from Dewey’s “Activity Program”. Memory work is discarded or minimized’

Why people educated this way, when they first become aware of current corruption & lies, fall straight into the arms of Pied Pipers & Con Op shills, without discernment.

🧵Continuation of ‘Bending The Twig’ (Rudd)
‘And what of the scholarly disciplines, the concentration, perseverance & intellectual training so essential to the acquisition of knowledge, judgement & logic?’
(Remember the relationship of‘judgement’to Reality
‘Activity’ pic 3 Wundt





*Activity - pic 4 (not 3)

🧵continuation of ‘Bending The Twig’ (Rudd)
‘Most of the victims of this education show an appalling ignorance of fundamental knowledge, including the basic economic principles of our Republic’



2/‘How could any child nurtured on such teachings be expected to develop a respect for our American System?’

🧵Continuation of ‘Bending The Twig’ (Rudd)
I hear public intellectuals praise ‘The Enlightenment™️’ for its gain of ‘Academic Freedom’ but there is no freedom in the proliferation of Philosophical Scepticism & Sophistry (the seed bed of Progressivism & Constructivism). Pic 4🔥





2/‘The function of the Communist party was to be the lead donkey pulling the drift of American life to the left’

‘From their own experiences the Communists knew the evil results of Progressive Education, so they promoted it for America.’

🧵Continuation of ‘Bending The Twig’ (Rudd)
‘They first tried to cajole us into thinking that the fundamentals were not as important as we thought they were[…] “We” are teaching the children something far more important. We are teaching them “Democracy”.’

1955!
2024 Hold My 🍺



2/‘It is just as illogical to assume that every boy must be able to read as it is that each one must be able to perform on the violin’

Anyone speaking in the Education reform arena who fails to acknowledge that ILLITERACY was deliberate pedagogy is either shilling or naive.

🧵continuation of ‘Bending The Twig’ (Rudd)
‘The breeding of this demand in the immature mind of the child is accelerated by a twisted version of how our present system & our form of government came into being’



2/A planned economy 😐☠️💀

🧵continuation of ‘Bending The Twig’ (Rudd)
‘He found serious obstacles in his path in the deep seated loyalties of the American people. He insisted that we must “uproot” these loyalties as a necessary preparatory step in his new social order.’

Compare with Chester Pierce, 1973.





2/‘It is to be a bloodless revolution by education’
‘graft the tenets of technocracy upon a framework of socialism’
‘his great influence over the teaching of millions of children’
Let this sink in.
There is no good faith argument for ‘mistakes made’.
It was strategic & tactical

🧵from 1950 - and you think schools only became a mess recently! 2/that’s 30 yrs prior to 1950! I like the wit of gents like this:
‘Splendid’
‘enraptured’
‘free of’
Very like Dalrymple. Subtle sarcasm is the very best.

🧵continuation of ‘Bending The Twig’ (Rudd)
‘Social Science to be the vehicle of this sabotage of history’
‘High school pupils; the largest group of persons in the world who can be directed in a serious & systematic effort, both through study & PRACTISE, to acquire Social Spirit’



2/‘the new Lenin government addressed itself to the task of diffusing Marxist doctrines AMONG INTELLECTUALS IN EVERY CAPITALIST NATION to further WORLD REVOLUTION.’

🧵continuation of ‘Bending The Twig’ (Rudd)
‘It contradicts all human experience’ 👉exactly why Traditional methods & content had to be purged, to remove access to that distilled wisdom & nourishing instruction drawn from centuries of human experience.

2/‘it will take us a quarter of a century to restore American education to the level it held before the Progressive onslaught’
👆1942!!! How long will it take us here in 2024 to restore Western Education (because Dewey etc spread throughout the West) across all 5 Eyes countries?

🧵more from ‘Bending The Twig’ (Rudd)
‘there has taken place a revolution in education, without the knowledge or consent of the great majority of our people’

‘drastically altered our methods & techniques of instruction [pedagogy] changed the primary purpose [telos] of education’



2/‘a shift from the educational objective[…]to the political objective’

For a long time I was alone in observing that child centred pedagogy resulted in the theft of education. A body of knowledge can not be transmitted that way. Only recreation can be experienced, not learning

🧵I read Fahrenheit 451 in school, but of course was not encouraged to think about it in any other way than sci fi dystopia, to confine it to linear timeline context with nothing eternally applicable or relevant. A sterile artifact for entertainment only.
blogodidact.blogspot.com/2022/10/the-po…


2/to understand the relevance of F451 I’d have needed competence & fluency in those foundational requisites of learning that the ‘Reformers’ in this excellent essay were hell bent on removing from Ed Pedagogy, in the name of “Progress”. They succeeded, crippling generations.

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Excerpts from the book referenced in the interview linked below…

https://twitter.com/djenr8/status/1796162571621286176

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🧵For those who’ve not yet discovered the excellent work of Van Harvey @Van_Blogodidact here (with his kind permission) is a 🧵of highly valuable gems you’ll want to save & revisit. A truly astonishing essay on presented in bitesize format. Take your time blogodidact.blogspot.com/2009/07/unknow…

1/Reid established Common Sense Realism specifically in order to refute Descartes. The impact of Cogito Ergo Sum (& subsequent Theory Of Ideas Philosophers such as Kant, Hegel etc) on Theology & Scientific Method was subversive, corrosive, divisive & destructive….

https://twitter.com/tamaruiv/status/1782433177761431660

2/….we’re currently in the firestorm of that subversive legacy with the occult underpinnings of Descartes Theory Of Ideas having come to full flower in not only the religious zealotry of Scientism, but also the many political machinations & attempted power consolidations of…

🧵1/ please take the time to read how long what you see from the excellent research of @iamlisalogan & @kellyske (& others) has been in play. How its operations are well above those of Government & ‘UN/UNESCO’ (which it helped to form). Social Science has always been THE WMD.





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🧵Human ‘Clay’
(thanks to @c_trombi for the references)
1/ Trading facts for fantasy, truth for myths, academics for collective socialization & individual thinking for group manipulation. NYC Mayor John Hylan called it out back in 1922. Operant Conditioning - shaping ‘Human Clay’

2/engineered human prototype ‘New Soviet Man’ = ‘Global Citizen’; initiated by Dewey’s ‘social learning’, completed via Freire’s conscientization. Don’t be fooled by tropes of ‘God/Bible’ framed as “superstition”. Targets for destruction were 1st Principles/Rational Faculties.