The United Nations, The National Education Association, and Public Schools

The fact that the United Nations has a consuming interest in influencing public education in America is not something new. In going through some of the books in my research library I came across one I had forgotten I even had. It was written by Dr. Ed Rowe back in 1985. Much of what it dealt with is still pertinent in our day.

Dr. Roe wrote: “In addition to this left-wing agenda, the NEA strongly supports other expressions of secular humanism, including the United Nations and an active program to construct a new global society. In June, 1976, the NEA’s former presidents and current chairmen of its Bicentennial Committee commented as follows concerning educators and their role in developing a new world order or global community.” They said: “It is with sobering awareness that we set about to change the course of American education for the twenty-first century by embracing the ideals of global community, the equality and interdependence of all people and nations, and education as a tool to bring about world peace.” Sounds noble doesn’t it–until you understand their definition of “world peace.”

Roe continued: “In harmony with this scheme, the National Council for the Social Studies conducts professional meetings in which the ‘global perspective’ is advocated among curriculum planners. One such meeting was convened November 14-21, 1981, in Detroit, Michigan on the occasion of the sixty-first annual meeting of the National Council for the Social Studies.” A professor from Northern Illinois University presented a paper called “Social Systems: Paradigm for a New Social Studies with a Global Perspective.”

I can remember, when I was still in high school (a long time ago now) we still had an American History class, and a World History class also. It seems nowadays they very seldom, if ever, teach American History anymore. Now it’s all “Social Studies” or, if the truth be known, socialist studies. This is not a new problem. What I am writing about here happened 41 years ago–and it was prevalent much before that.

The globalists plan to control the content of education through “curriculum engineering.” In 1978 a small book was published by the United Nations Association of the United States named “Helping Boys and Girls to Discover the World.” The subtitle of this book was “Teaching about Global Concerns and the United Nations in Elementary and Middle Schools.” A globalist, or New World Order perspective is put forth as follows: “A global dimension should be given to all subjects and to many other school experiences. Children in the early grades should learn about the ideals of the United Nations and its widespread work to help people better their lives. Affective and active measures should be used which will involve pupils. Education should be profoundly changed.”

And Dr. Rowe observed that “British educator Herbert Read is quoted as calling for ‘a complete recasting and reorientation of our educational system’…Some features of the new education that will create a new type of human being are the following: Introduction of school children to the UN flag; observance of United Nations Day as an international holiday; the holding of a birthday party for the UN; participation by children in UNICEF Trick or Treat programs at Halloween…” Notice how everything is geared to the UN–and nowhere is there any mention of the national holidays of our own country. This is not accidental. Your country is meant to take a backseat to the United Nations and that is the way public schools are teaching your children–and it is all by design. In the agenda of the United Nations, the United States will be an “also ran” and our public schools are willingly doing their part in promoting this One World Government agenda to your kids.

When we homeschooled our kids, we didn’t mess with “social studies.” We taught them United States history and we tried to teach them what the United Nations was really all about. If you want to find out what the United Nations is really all about, check out a book by G. Edward Griffin called “The Fearful Master” which should still be available even though it was published several years ago. Griffin gives you a good idea of what the UN is up to and its rank appeasement of Communist countries, as well as going into the leftist backgrounds of who founded it. When public schools dwell on the “glories” of the United Nations they are doing students a horrendous disservice, which is yet one more reason to get your kids out of public schools.