G. Edward Griffin - The Fearful Master - PDF Archive

For older children, Volume 1 has this to say:
The idealism of youth should be appealed to, but it is essential to
remember that the adolescent's enthusiasm can quickly turn to
disappointment and disillusionment. . . . It will be found that children
grasp more quickly and more firmly the principles of the UN and its
agencies if the teaching is related to practical activities, such as the
international children's emergency fund [UNICEF], or UNESCO's work
of education reconstruction in the war-devastated countries.
Over the past twenty years the concept of education in America has gradually changed
until today it is shockingly UNESCO-oriented. And this includes more than attitudes
toward patriotism and religion. Increasing emphasis has been placed on UNESCO's
program of replacing scholastic achievement with such vagaries as "human adjustment,"
"group consciousness," and "social cooperation." Our educational system has been
shifting away from one which trains children to think and to understand, toward one which
is preoccupied with turning out intellectual paralytics who do not question the authorities
but readily conform with the group.
Our primary concern here, however, is not with UNESCO's program of mental paralysis,
but with its assault on patriotism, religion and moral standards among our youth. One
clear example of how far this poison has seeped into the air of American academic circles
is a series of psychological tests called Reading for Understanding which was prepared by
an organization known as Science Research Associates (SRA). These tests have been
widely used in approximately seven thousand public school districts across the United
States and are highly praised by teachers' associations and school administrators. As the
following sample questions will reveal, however, the tests not only require the student to
assume the veracity of a preliminary statement which is loaded with editorial opinion, but
they use half-truths and untruths to undermine traditional concepts of religion, morality and
constitutional government.
Question 34-S-2: More Americans are going to church today than ever before. Some say
that these new churchgoers are motivated by . . .
[Correct answer: "fear of death."]
Question 42-S-7: As religion in Medieval times permeated man's every thought and action,
so science today is rapidly becoming a . . .
[Correct answer: "way of life."]
Question 64-C-3: Analyzing the failure of the League, the writer came to one basic
conclusion; it had been betrayed by pride, self-interest and jealousy-in short, by unbridled
nationalism. When sovereignty becomes a fetish, it produces more evil than good. The
poison that lolled peace, he decided, was . . .
[Correct answer: "nationalism."]
Question 72-S-8: Truth is sometimes thought of as leading an existence separate from the
affairs of the world; but this author believes that truth depends on the achievement of
human goals. That which leads to the goals we set up is true. Hence, truth is . . .