AND it is intentional. Brought to the USA by American Fabian, John Dewey.

The Dumbing Down of America

”Dewey’s philosophy had evolved from Hegelian idealism to socialist materialism, and the purpose of the school was to show how education could be changed to produce little socialists and collectivists instead of little capitalists and individualists. It was expected that these little socialists, when they became voting adults, would dutifully change the American economic system into a socialist one.

In order to do so he analyzed the traditional curriculum that sustained the capitalist, individualistic system and found what he believed was the sustaining linchpin — that is, the key element that held the entire system together: high literacy. To Dewey, the greatest obstacle to socialism was the private mind that seeks knowledge in order to exercise its own private judgment and intellectual authority. High literacy gave the individual the means to seek knowledge independently. It gave individuals the means to stand on their own two feet and think for themselves. This was detrimental to the “social spirit” needed to bring about a collectivist society.

Now the government intervention into child raising extends to infants thanks to day care legislation.

Another article
How John Dewey Used Public ‘Education’ to Subvert Liberty

And finally this one (it is really good too.)

2016 – ‘Critical Thinking’ without Memorization? It Doesn’t Exist

There is this comment that I saw in 2014 at WUWT

The father of modern American education is considered to be the Secretary of the Massachusetts State Board of Education and US Congressman Horace Mann (1796 – 1859). He is quoted as saying:

“The State is the father of children.”

Mann traveled to Prussia in 1843 to observe their public education system first hand. Its stated goals were:

1. Obedient soldiers

2. Obedient workers

3. Well-subordinated civil servants

4. Well-subordinated clerks

5. Citizens who thought alike on most issues

6. National uniformity in thought, work, and deed

The Prussian system was largely influenced by a then little known philosopher named Johann Gottlieb Fichte who made the following statement:

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“Education should aim at destroying free will so that after pupils are thus schooled they will be incapable throughout the rest of their lives of thinking or acting otherwise than as their school masters would have wished.

This model of behavior-based psychology and behavior modification techniques, which indoctrinates children, was quickly implemented by Mann. “Normal School” the institution for the training of teachers (also called teachers college or teacher-training college) in the United States was founded in Lexington, Massachusetts, in 1839. Many world governments sent delegates to Prussia in the 19th century to study this new mind-control innovation. The Prussian model is now the standard all around the world….

https://www.prageru.com/video/how-dark-were-the-dark-ages/

For a well considered counter to Fichte, Dewey & Mann I recommend reading this article on Dorothy Sayers, a contemporary and colleague of C.S. Lewis:

https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2018/09/dorothy-sayers-is-answer-john-dewey-jesse-sumpter.html

Téjeanne De Milo

Horace Mann is known as the ‘Father of Public School Education’. Mann traveled to Prussia in 1843 to observe their public education system first hand. 

Its stated goals were:

1.    Obedient soldiers

2.    Obedient workers

3.   Well-subordinated civil servants

4.   Well-subordinated clerks

5.   Citizens who thought alike on most issues

6.   National uniformity in thought, work, and deed

 

The Prussian system was largely influenced by a then little known philosopher named Johann Gottlieb Fichte who made the following two statements:

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“Education should aim at destroying free will so that after pupils are thus schooled they will be incapable throughout the rest of their lives of thinking or acting otherwise than as their school masters would have wished.

 …

 “The social psychologist of the future will have a number of classes of school children on whom they will try different methods of producing an unshakable conviction that snow is black. When the technique has been perfected, every government that has been in charge of education for more than one generation will be able to control its subjects securely without the need of armies or policemen.”

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This model of behavior-based psychology and behavior modification techniques, which indoctrinates children, was quickly implemented by Mann. “Normal School” the institution for the training of teachers (also called teachers college or teacher-training college) in the United States was founded in Lexington, Massachusetts, in 1839.

“An unfortunate element of human psychology is that the Prussian model is more than happy to take advantage of cognitive dissonance. People have a nice bed of pre-approved beliefs to fall back on, so if ever they’re exposed to contradictory information and start to feel uncomfortable, they are socially encouraged to disregard the new information, no matter how factual it is. It is easy for the mind to disregard contradictory information, because it treats beliefs like they are precious possessions. And if one’s friends and families have the same base beliefs, the path of least resistance is the status quo. People are more easily controlled than they realize. All the state needs is standardized education and a compliant media, and people will play along to get along.