Outcome Based Education by V. M. Fareed in Issues & Views: An open forum on issues affecting the black community, Winter 1994, available from P. O. Box 467, New York, NY 10025, describes the National Education Association program that is being installed throughout the United States under the titles of "Master Learning,'' "Outcome Based Learning,'' and "Outcome Based Education.'' Fareed writes, "In the ideal OBE classroom, less content (basic skills in reading, writing, and arithmetic) is taught, while teachers encourage students to concentrate on developing specific values, attitudes and 'orientations.' The objective is to control the minds of the students and to nullify their ability to think independently. The child is coerced to conform to the correct attitude on particular subjects or issues as desired by the program administrators. Otherwise, the child risks retention at the same grade level in the next school year.
"'Learning outcomes' are designed to affect the student's thinking on everything - from environmental issues to social issues to notions about his own self-worth. In other words, the children must adopt the value (worth) of themselves, that program administrators determine is correct - and they must do the same for over 50 learning outcomes.
"OBE is designed to 'level' all children to a common denominator of learning and beliefs. Sound knowledge of a subject is not considered as important as the student's 'social attitudes.' In effect, OBE is a form of attitudinal indoctrination.'' This phase in the destruction of tax-financed schools and the minds of students who attend them parallels the situation on university campuses where politically incorrect remarks can result in expulsion. At first, the social engineers just combined their wares with academic subjects thereby diluting them. Now, they are beginning to demand that those with "incorrect attitudes'' be given failing academic grades.
The Deweese Report1, p 5 (1995) available from 14140-L Parke Long Court, Chantilly, VA 22021, reports that the following pledge was read in tax-financed schools throughout America, presumably on "Earth Day'' - "I pledge allegiance to Planet Earth, mother of all nations; and to the infinite universe in which she stands; our planet, among millions, expressing truth and unlimited possibilities for all!''
Oleg Khabarov of the Russian Academy for the Protection of Life has proposed a spaced-based laser defense system - against CFCs. Russia is complaining that it does not have $600 million to eliminate CFC emissions from its factories. The laser system on 30 to 50 satellites would, according to Khabarov, ionize oxygen and produce atmospheric ozone at a ten-year cost of $100 billion.
Perhaps we should buy just one of these satellites and aim it at the seasonal, naturally occurring ozone reduction area over Antarctica. We could pay for the satellite with the no-longer-needed funds that are currently being used to study Antarctic ozone. Since ozone over the rest of the earth is not being significantly reduced, the whole issue would go away, and we would get to keep our refrigerators.
