Dumbing Us Down through College

On the way home from the recent Iowa home school convention, my son Jonathan was reading to us from "The Creature From Jekyll Island," by G. Edward Griffen (1994, American Media). This book details the very interesting history of the Federal Reserve System, but the point which grabbed my attention was "the programmed decline of the American economy."

On page 110, Griffen introduces the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and its influence through our cultural and political leaders and the goal of building world government "for the greater good of all." The weakening of America is an essential step toward building world government, they figure. Richard Gardner, advisor to President Carter explained that

In short, the 'house of world order' will have to be built from the bottom up...An end run around national sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece, will accomplish much more that the old-fashioned frontal assault."

Griffen documents, "As for the programmed decline of the American economy, CFR member Samuel Huntington argues that, if higher education is considered desirable for the general population, then a program is then necessary to lower the job expectations of those who receive a college education." CFR member Paul Volcker, former Chairman of the Federal Reserve, says: "The standard of living of the average American has to decline...I don't think you can escape that."

Homeschoolers understand how the public school system has dumbed down America, but this tidbit is helpful to realize that this dumbing down is also happening at the college level, towards eroding national sovereignty such that the United States will better succumb to one world government domination.

Therefore, decentralizing college education to the family level to bring glory to God and His truth to the culture is an important contribution to keeping America free and returning its position of a light on a hill.