The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America - Charlotte Iserbyt

Charlotte Iserbyt (1930-2022) is a renowned former school board member and senior policy advisor in the US Department of Education. Her most significant work is The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America: A Chronological Paper Trail, in which she examines the history of US education system and argues that it has been deliberately designed to make citizens docile and obedient to the state. Iserbyt suggests that the US government has been integral in the process, implementing an agenda of testing and standardization that benefits the government rather than the students. Since its publication, her book has been widely praised by educational experts and is regarded as one of the most influential works on the subject.
In this interview, Iserbyt discusses the how gradual changes brought into the American public education system work to eliminate the influences of a child's parents, and mold the child into a member of the working class in preparation for a socialist-collectivist world of the future.
She considers that these changes originated from plans formulated primarily by the Andrew Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Education and Rockefeller General Education Board, and details the psychological methods used to implement and effect the changes.
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