Subject: TBC Today : Shrink This!
 

People see the growing failure of our public schools and the political
correctness being taught to children and assume that this is a recent
development. As the Book of Ecclesiastes instructs us, there is nothing new
"under the sun" (Eccleasiastes 1:9). In a recent news commentary, the
columnist points out that his personal experience with "indoctrination
instead of education" dates back to 1963.

"[In 1958] Congress passed the National Defense Education Act, which
provided for a massive infusion of guidance counselors and testing personnel
into the public schools across the U.S. . . . On May 6, 1963, Prof. George
Welsh of the Psychology Department of the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill wrote to the Psychological Corporation in New York indicating
that at the Governor's School 'we are planning to administer an extensive
test battery.'

"The writer of this article attended that school in 1963, and among the
tests administered to us was the Psychological Corporation's Minnesota
Multiphasic Personality Inventory. It included 771 statements to which we
were to respond "true" or "false." And among these statements were the
following: (1) I believe in the worth of humanity, but not in God; (2) We
cannot know for sure whether or not there is a God; (3) One of the most
important things children should learn is when to disobey authority; (4) The
findings of science may some day show that many of our most cherished
beliefs are wrong; (5) Organized religion, while sincere and constructive in
its aims, is really an obstacle to human progress." (Dennis L. Cuddy, Ph.D.,
August 28, 2004, NewsWithViews.com).