The Children Are Our Future

This is scary stuff,Hitler stuff and Mao stuff. People wlth real education better live forever so they can pick up the pieces and put some of them back together. In the meantime, don't laugh at the poor little buggers. It's not their fault.

It stands to reason that the UN would be behind this as world government and Agenda 21 can only succeed if enough gullible leaders can be persuaded to follow this path to utopia. Unfortunately there is no shortage of educated idiots as Obama, Chu, Mulcair , Redford, McGuinty and so many others continue to verify. Our greatest chance for long term freedom is to say goodby to the UN. The Star Chamber to control the planet is no longer a movie. Just like "Atlas shrugged" and "1984", it's all too real.

Ah yes. Higher Education at it's social engineering best.

I find it interesting that as our society moves further away from God and the Church, that same society realizes the missing ingredients of love, service and acceptance that were commonplace in the not so distant past.

These moral qualities cannot be taught or imposed by so called educators. They require a change of heart.

That's best left to the church. The 3 "R"s, not secular indoctrination, are best left to a "real" education system.

What is a rabbit and why do rabbits exist?
They are food.

What a great site that is, thanks Kate (and Melinda).

"Global Happiness", "Cultural Transformation Theory", UNESCO's push to "integrate the values inherent in sustainable development into all aspects of learning to encourage changes in attitudes and behaviour that allow for a more sustainable and just society for all", the idea that "Wellbeing Pathways" are"necessary to student learning" -- all this leftist indoctrination is being plied here in Canada too: About a week ago, SDA commenter rita drew our attention in the Reader Tips to a G&M article on "sustainable happiness" that cited Sustainable Happiness pioneer Catherine O'Brien. The article didn't mention it, but O'Brien's teaching guide is used in many provinces' curriculums, and is chock full of the same touchy-feely leftist indoctrination of young minds that ISC is helping to expose.

The Ontario SHTeacher's Guide (PDF), for example, refers to "affluenza", "materialism", "one-planet living", "genuine wealth" ("collective and shared responsibility to ensure that the various conditions of well being that add to quality of life are flourishing, vibrant, life-giving and sustainable"), etc etc..

The SHTeacher's Guide for Ontario is all about encouraging kids' natural feelings and emotions in the interest of guiding them towards political issues of race, environment, and redistribution. Teachers are encouraged to read aloud from books like "Zebo and the Dirty Planet" and "The People Who Hugged the Trees"; students are paired up to create "a short skit that demonstrates a lesson about something that kids should do to make the earth happy or something that they shouldn't do because it makes the earth unhappy"; they're taught that walking instead of using a motorized vehicle "makes the earth happy"; there are suggested "Affects Charts" to teach the kids how their behaviour "impacts people in distant communities and the natural environment." (A provided example, based on a child's breakfast: "Oranges were transported a long way -- created pollution.")

Students "interview one another with the following questions: a) What your vision for living a happy life on a happy planet? b) What are you currently doing to contribute to that vision? c) What more could you do to contribute to your vision?"

You really have to peruse the PDF at length to grasp the full extent of it, but it's indoctrination and propaganda, pure and simple.

There's no doubt that the left is trying to seize control of the hearts and minds of the next generation, and these smiley-faced ideological mercenaries know exactly what they're doing and how to do it. As the Invisible Serfs Collar article put it,

"How useful if you have transformative intentions you would prefer not to discuss with voters and taxpayers. And especially parents."

"Useful" is the operative word.

EBD:

Really great info.

I must have missed that article in the Toronto Red Star.

Anyone see this on the CBC?

CTV?

Global?

Hmmm....

Hilarious stuff EBD. What a joke, not eating oranges will result in a 'happy planet'. Like the earth has emotions...

Yep we should all give up vitamin C, because scurvy is a good thing...and the planet will be happy!

Where are all those limeys now?

BTW I prefer 0.45 calibre rifles...

And how does not eating oranges ie a source of vitamin C fit with the objective:

7. A healthy lifestyle (eg good nutrition...)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scurvy#Pathogenesis

Scurvy can be treated by eating food containing vitamin C such as oranges, papaya, strawberries, lemon, tablets with vitamin C, etc.

Arghh, shiver me timbers and pass the limes and double ration of grog!

Cheers

Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief

1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”

Yeah, Hans, and by a strange coincidence this "Happy Planet" is exclusively a leftist one. It's not a prosperous, merit-based planet of discipline, diligence, emotional continence, reason, and prosperity, it's a touchy-feely one where all feelings point to the glorious global path.

I think what I find most unsettling about the Ontario SHTeacher's guide (and the ISC site notes that the very same "all children must learn to care" Global Competence"-type crap is coming from all directions elsewhere) is its relentless priming of the kids' inchoate feelings (as opposed to actual knowledge), which are then redirected to leftist political causes like redistribution.

Forcing kids to characterize and interpret their "feelings" according to the precise definitions of an indoctrination-minded leftist adult with a soothing voice borders on child abuse, IMO, never mind parent abuse. It's an uninvited, opportunisitic usurpation/appropriation of *life* itself.

Societal Pacification.. Just what the U.N would prefer. And who has a big stake in this? other than us of course, would be our friends the Islamist's who will be controlling the third world countries, through the U.N.... Lord I sound paranoid.

I'm fascinated by the collar. Does anyone have the exact words on it and its story? Is it known who wore it and how long it was worn?

Its been my experience people only learn empathy from suffering. You can't teach an emotion to human beings unless they have an experience of it.

Perhaps in the future these kids will realize how they were used for political theory by monstrous people who never had a shred of empathy in their coddled lives.

Who have lived in bubbles to the point of near insanity. wanting to spread a special brand of madness out of a conviction of their supposed superiority.

nold

Here you go

http://nms.scran.ac.uk/database/record.php?usi=000-100-001-337-C

@ Happy Infidel at July 6, 2012 11:57 PM
"Lord I sound paranoid"

Not at all. Notice that Muslims are not being pussyfied and teach their children that Christians are evil, and Christianity must be destroyed as only muslims have a true god. They wait, knowing that breeding alone will eventually give them a majority and our(and Europe's)immigration policies are making it easy. Their goal is up front and for all to see. While we churn out brainwashed weenies they are sharpening knives. Sometime in the future there will be a battle for a way of life and we will not be prepared. Even worse is we are going out of our way to help the wrong side. Political correctnes and do-gooder activists will be the downfall of life as we know it. Nations that worry about the dangers of lawn darts, obesity, second hand smoke, large sodas, trade carbon on the stock market, have laws against hurting someones feelings and welcome every perversion even into the classroom are ready for a reset. Islam will be the reset unless we wake up. We are still sound asleep.

Well said PJ.

PJ is correct. Our granddaughters will curse this generation from under their bhurkas.

Astonishing.

I read all of the initiatives and thought, "they used to be accomplished around the family table and in the Church -- for free": values like respect, honesty, compassion; skills like coping, self-awareness, emotional regulation, empathy, goal achievement, relationship; a sense of meaning & purpose -- spirituality, community service, participation in clubs and teams, peer support, collaborative and authentic group projects.

When I was growing up in the '50s bullying was barely on the agenda, as we dealt with it on an individual basis. Bullying was not epidemic as it is today. Most of the living skills we learned were in our families and at Church -- and school was where we practised those skills and got down to work learning our ABCs.

Now governments and NGOs want not only to get in on the act but want to usurp the traditional transference of these values and skills from the family and Church to the apparatchiks in their ever-growing bureaucracies.

What absolute nonsense. What absolute corruption.

Thanks Revenant Dream er Revnant

Yikes. It's all falling into place for the Happy Stoned Planet transformers. The reality we're dealing with is the demanding and irresponsible Gen Y, many of whom yearn for control to save the planet but won't deign to clean up their rooms.

Thanks for the information and wise words Revnant Dream.

In the west we adopt the Maoist Cultural Revolution model, but talk to the gifted children that come over to our universities from China and invariably they will tell you that their primary education in China was at a private school. Not only that but much of the learning was drilled into their heads by rote learning.

There's no doubt, batb (9:50), that all these "royal We" UNCESCO-type education proposals/initiatives to "manage and govern our activities to reach and sustain global sustainability” and "actively promote a new era of inter-and trans-disciplinary research and work with relevant partners to support solutions to societal transformation” and “provide solutions and transition pathways; ranging from economics to behavioral change and governance” are an attempt to usurp the primacy of family and church. The question - it's almost the only question -- that must be asked (and answered) by those who oppose this 'one-world' brainwashing of kids, is this: how have these collectivist moonie-crats been so successful at getting away with implementing these brainwashing, communitarian initiatives in so many classrooms, including kindergarten classrooms? It's a given that there will always be NGOs (and teachers) who will try to implement an anti-family, anti-liberty, anti-prosperity, 'global' agenda in elementary classrooms and kindergartens, but how have they been so successful at managing to do so?

My best guess is that too there are just way too many parents who implicitly assume that the nice lady with the soothing voice who loves your kid sooo much must have his/her best interests at heart, and couldn't possibly be a front (unwitting or otherwise, and possibly entirely well-meaning) for a one-world, redistributionist, collectivist ideology.

....priming of the kids' inchoate feelings (as opposed to actual knowledge), which are then redirected to leftist political causes like redistribution....

You see, that just demonstrates how your right wing whining falls apart. Since when is redistribution a "leftist" political cause, when conservatives demonstrably love redistribution, as long as they and their friends are on the receiving end, and it comes at the expense of someone they don't like.

EBD: " ... how have these collectivist moonie-crats been so successful at getting away with implementing these brainwashing, communitarian initiatives in so many classrooms, including kindergarten classrooms?"

OK. A number of suggestions as to how this has happened (and seeing as it's happened in my lifetime, I think I have some valid observations to make):

1) The State encouraging mothers to work outside the home. Working-outside-the-home moms bring in revenue for the government via their taxes and are usually too exhausted at the end of their work day and the end of their children's school day to pay attention to what their children are actually being taught in school. They live, education-wise, in a time warp and assume that what they were taught is what their children are being taught. Wrong.

I stayed home to care for my kids -- which in no way meant that I'd lost my marbles or was too stupid to have a career, the usual stereotype of a stay-at-home mom -- and was very much on top of what was happening in their classrooms. I pushed back, if not always with the teacher then with my kids, asking, "well, did they tell you this about that, or this, or this?"

The answer was always, "no, they didn't," so I found myself educating my children in the the myriad complexities, let's say, of Europeans encountering Natives. They were told the Europeans did terrible things to the Natives, killed them, introduced chickenpox, alcohol, etc. What they didn't tell them was that there was inter-tribal warfare in North America before the Europeans arrived, that Natives enslaved and killed one another, that the Natives introduced Europeans to tobacco, etc..

2) The rise of state- and media-sanctioned Feminism in our government, in the universities, and public education system at the elementary and secondary levels. Feminism was given gazillions of government dollars to brainwash our kids, to the extent that girls, 30 to 40 years later, are fast outdoing boys in everything, especially in the education sphere. Our boys are dropping out of high school like flies and, having been ignored by the feminazis in our educational institutions, are turning to video games, drugs, gangs, and a myriad other distractions, and are thus becoming feral and immune to commitment to creating either careers -- the women are nabbing most of them -- or families.

3) Whereas 80% of Canadians went to Church on a regular basis in the '50s, the stats are now reversed: 80% of Canadians never go to Church or hear the Word of God (10 Commandments, love your neighbour as yourself, the Good Samaritan, etc.), and that has had a huge impact on our ethics and morals.

Given that most Canadian parents now have no idea of the Judeo-Christian values on which their society was founded -- and on whose capital they're borrowing to the point that the account's almost empty -- on what basis would they have scruples about what their kids are being taught in school, if they even know what it is? On what grounds would they object to the one-world government, Kumbaya, diverse, open, tolerant -- only of certain ideas -- agenda being introduced by the UNCESCO-type education proposals/initiatives?

The UN has god-like status in our schools, whereas I wouldn't allow my girls to collect for UNICEF at Hallowe'en, because I knew what their actual agenda was: one-world government and domination, a step-by-step takeover of legitimate democracies, by a non-elected non-governmental organization.

My bottom-line answer, EBD? The Holy Spirit, given as a gift at Christians' baptism and confirmed at their Confirmation, confers the gift of discernment, among many gifts, on those who receive it wholeheartedly and in good faith:

Discerning of spirits is the supernatural ability given by the Holy Spirit to perceive the source of a spiritual manifestation and determine whether it is of God (Acts 10:30-35), of the devil (Acts 16:16-18), of man (Acts 8:18-23), or of the world. It is not mind reading, psychic phenomena, or the ability to criticize and find fault.

Discerning of spirits must be done by the power of the Holy Spirit; He bears witness with our spirit when something is or is not of God. The gift of discerning of spirits is the supernatural power to detect the realm of the spirits and their activities. It implies the power of spiritual insight - the supernatural revelation of plans and purposes of the enemy and his forces. It is a gift which protects and guards your Christian life.

Even if many baptized Christians had no idea about this gift, they had an innate sense of what was right and what was wrong -- or not right. As fewer and fewer families have bothered to bring their children up in the Christian faith, a large swath of our population is uncatechized and undiscerning and, therefore, totally open to accepting governance and instruction from totally self-serving institutions.

I did a quick look through the document "Sustainable Happiness and Health Education Teacher's Guide" linked to by EBD, July 6, 2012 10:47 PM. I picked out a few points for comment:

"Our natural desire for happiness can become the entry point for discovering that
our well-being is inextricably linked to the well-being of others and the natural environment." In other words: exploit a person's desire for happiness in order to brainwash them into behaving and believing in a certain way.

"Through an exploration of sustainable happiness we can “delink” happiness from
consumption and discover ongoing opportunities to enhance well-being and sustainability." Implication: If you can "de-link" you and also "link" to something else.

"The lessons that are outlined here for grades kindergarten to grade 6 are
intended to motivate students to develop attitudes and intrinsic motivation to make
healthful choices on a daily basis and throughout their life." That might be okay--but the "healthful choices" have more to do with someone else's political and social morality than the child's own health. Hence the example of enjoying coffee in the morning--you're not supposed to enjoy it unless it's fair-trade coffee. You may not know what fair-trade means (or even if it actually IS fair-trade or just a label meant to delude the way we put "green" on products to make people thing they're making a planetary responsible choice.) But you're ALLOWED to feel happy and possibly a little superior. (Interesting that other research shows that people who make "green" choices are more likely to fudge on other moral issues.)

"2005 marked the beginning of the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development
(2005-2014)." The moment I see "UN" on anything, I get wary.

There is a passing reference to Maslow's hierarchy of needs without tying it into the rest of the document, except perhaps as another avenue for manipulation of young minds.

The simplistic thesis--that happiness is something which can be manipulated by making choices that don't necessarily make you happy, but which please some deity we might call "The Happy Planet" is offensive but also very potent for mind-bending. Young people lap this up. Throw in a few grinning Disney characters, and you've got a winner.

I don't object to the notion that materialism doesn't lead to happiness. I object to the notion that submitting your every choice to some jury of planet-nannies will make you happy.

How have these collectivist moonie-crats been so successful at getting away with implementing these brainwashing, communitarian initiatives in so many classrooms, including kindergarten classrooms?

I'm not a religious person, but perhaps aspects of my response echo some of what you say batb.

The moonie-crats have been successful because it's easy to introduce thoughts, and ideas into a neglected landscape. No-one really notices if you replace one weed with another. The neglected landscape might be the result of inattentive parenting, the absence of moral teaching that used to be supplied by the Church, and the proliferation of social agencies who, in addition to their mandate to look after the well-being and education of children, manage to insinuate themselves into family situations where they do not belong. Some people are drawn to such careers, not because they want to help young people become literate or protect them from mistreatment, but because it is a fertile field for "doing good". Where else will you have the opportunity to influence and control such a large captive audience?

Thanks, rita, for encapsulating the points I was making.

Unfortunately, having abdicated our spiritual responsibilities and our capacity for critical thinking -- brainwashing in our schools and media don't reward critical thinking; rather, they punish it -- we're ripe for the plucking.

As the old saying goes, "If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything."

Sitting Ducks "R" Us.