EdNews.org, “The Internet’s #1 Source for Education News and Information,” aggregates feeds from many different education sites. and provides its own content. They state that:
EducationNews.org is a fresh approach to the age-old problem of increasing coverage of education news. Unfortunately, education is not a topic that news organizations are able to provide premium coverage to all the time, thus ironically, all education experts face the same problem – the difficulty of educating the public.
Use of the Internet as a tool for disseminating news has been a colossal success. Everyday, news content drives millions of people to the Internet. The seamless features of the Internet enable news to travel to anyone with Internet access. The mission of EducationNews.org is to become the most frequently used tool on the Internet for disseminating education news.
A lofty, important goal. EdNews.org, however, has taken to shilling for NewsWithViews.com – an unhinged ultra-right website dripping with conspiracy theory and hate.
NWV’s latest contribution to EdNews’ feed comes from Erica Carle, former education columnist in an unheard-of publication. In “Adult Indoctrination,” Carle contends that:
As terrible as our present Theosophically and sociologically controlled education system for children is, the most frightening deception and control is not in the grade and high schools, but in the thousands of programs, courses, seminars, training sessions, workshops, conventions, retreats, growth centers and counseling services that government, churches, fraternal, business and social organizations are using to affect behavior of participants. These organizations are training, hypnotizing, bribing, flattering, frightening, deceiving, and directing millions of people into lines of thought, or non-thought which will make them easier to con and use. A generation of adults is being duped into becoming non-judgmental in moral situations; dependent in social and political situations; unreliable in business situations; exhibitionistic about their feelings; unperturbed about invasions of privacy, and without respect for the privacy and sensitivity of others.
The New World Order is seizing power more quickly than we expected, it seems.
NWV dates this article August 4, 2007. For those who made it all the way to the end of Carle’s paranoid screed, they may have noticed the following:
The above article was reprinted from Erica Carle’s truth in education column April 10, 1975.
1975? EdNews.org is not only shilling for NewsWithViews, they’re doing it with articles that are 32 years old.
To give you a further idea of the level of scholarship and thoughtfulness of Carle’s contributions to the education world, consider her piece titled “Get Rid of Sociological Stupidity in Schools.” Carle weaves her thoughts into a stunning tapestry of childish nonsense, culminating in:
Sociology limits learning–That’s STUPID! It experiments on people as if they were laboratory animals–That’s STUPID! Sociology demands acceptance of destructive and degenerate types of behavior–That’s STUPID! Sociology dictates group thinking. That’s STUPID! Sociology restricts honest speech. That’s STUPID! Sociology attempts to destroy character and personality. That’s STUPID! Sociology endorses sexual perversion. That’s STUPID! Sociology lies about its goals. That’s STUPID! Sociology suggests student protests and violence. That’s STUPID! Sociology promotes unmarried pregnancy. That’s STUPID! Sociology sanctions lying by elected officials to support sociological goals. That’s STUPID! Sociology works to end private ownership of land. That’s STUPID! Sociology promotes communist world government. That’s STUPID! Americans have done little to limit the power and influence of sociologists in the classrooms. That’s STUPID!
Let’s not continue supporting stupidity. Get Rid Of Sociological Stupidity. Think GROSS! It is important to our country’s future to Get Rid Of Sociological Stupidity. Get Rid Of School Sociology. Sociology is not, and never has been a science. Get rid of it. Think GROSS!
Gross indeed, Ms. Carle. These reasonless, unjustifiable screeds have no place in the education debate [though I suppose even Alex Jones needs a grandmother].
EdNews.org continues to show a lack of self-awareness, self-respect and respect for the education community by promoting such vapid, baseless content. Send an e-mail to John McNamara at Ednews.org and let him know that the education community expects EdNews to adhere to some basic standards for content. His address is johnm@ednews.org.
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