This is a very important article written by Charlotte Iserbyt, who served as Senior Policy Advisor in the U.S. Department of Education under Ronald Reagan. She wrote what we like to call the “education whistleblower’s encyclopedia” “Deliberate Dumbing Down of America” after making some unnerving discoveries during the course of her job. You can download a free copy of the book in PDF format from the website.

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Important note from the author: The next time you attempt to discuss with a friend or acquaintance a serious issue (such as illegal immigration, the Iraq War, our loss of constitutional rights under the Patriot Act, or the latest Supreme Court Decision doing away with private property rights) and you get that “glazed, blank, mindless, couldn’t care less expression,” refer back to this article which attempts to explain the cause of that glazed expression: Pavlovian/Skinnerian conditioning, be it through operant conditioning programs in the schools, computers at school or at home, the television, radio, music, video games, or plain print media. It is important for Americans to become aware of the effects of conditioning, the brain and soul (conscience) killer, which is silently at work in our society 24 hours a day, 365 days of the year.

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