Socialist Education In America

BY NANCY HUFF

Photo by Steve Harvey

How Socialist Education Transformed American Children into "Good Global Citizens”

In 1888, journalist Edward Bellamy published Looking Backward, a novel that quickly became a bestseller, and influenced high-level educators to embrace socialism as a goal for American education.

Looking Backward is the tale of a Bostonian, Julian West. She falls asleep in 1887 and wakes up in the year 2000 to find that while she slept, a peaceful, gradual socialist revolution has taken place in America.

The entire workforce is paid equally and manned by an Industrial Army, in which every citizen must serve from the age of twenty-one to forty-five.

EDWARD BELLAMY
LOOKING BACKWARD WAS FIRST PUBLISHED
IN JANUARY 1888 BY TICKNOR & CO.

Evil and crime have disappeared. There is no need for the Ten Commandments because there is no greed and, therefore, no need to be told not to lie, cheat, or steal. In the new society, everyone is equal. The perfect socialist paradise is achieved!

John Dewey, known as the Father of Modern Education, was enamored with Looking Backward, so much so that he stated the book was one of the greatest modern syntheses of humane values.

Dewey was deep into socialism before reading Bellamy’s book, but what the book did was to give him a visual representation of what his ideal collective would look like when achieved. What Harriett Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin did for slavery, by putting into words the image of slavery, Looking Backward did for socialism.

JOHN DEWEY

The Father
of Modern Education

Dewey spent his adult professional life working toward making America the perfect socialist utopia and his weapon of choice: the public-school system.

Using the schools, he could follow the Bellamy way to instigate a peaceful revolution slowly and methodically. Dewey would train children, whose children who would follow through the same school system.

Within only four to five generations, he would achieve his dream goal. In 1898 he wrote an essay, The Primary-Education Fetich, in which he said, “Change must come gradually. To force it unduly would compromise its final success by favoring a violent reaction.”

The book was so successful that thirty years after publication, the Atlantic Monthly magazine conducted a survey and asked Dewey and two other prominent educators what book influenced their careers the most.

They all listed Looking Backward as number one and Marx’s Das Kapital as number two. Dewey understood the gradual acceptance of socialism because that was the same path he had taken to embrace the idea of a utopian society.

WILHELM WUNDT

Founder of Experimental Psychology

He grew up in a Puritan family with loving parents who faithfully took Dewey and his two brothers to church. Socialism was not a part of his early life. Dewey’s transformation came by studying under critical professors, who had recently returned from Germany, and had studied under the famous Wilhelm Wundt, rightfully titled, the Founder of Experimental Psychology. Wundt believed the mind could be scientifically measured, and the soul was non-existent.

While working on his doctorate at Johns Hopkins University, Dewey studied under professors who embraced Wundtian ideas on the science of the mind and evolution and who discarded the notion of original sin.

With no belief in a soul, a creator, or a need for a savior, Dewey’s mind became fertile ground to embrace socialism.

The sad thing is that Dewey became a significant influencer in American education, authoring 38 books on educational theory, with many still in use today.

Dewey won his utopian ideal of socialism. Today we have evidence of Dewey’s socialist revolution in our classrooms, proving that socialism does not work as America’s failing public schools are anything but a utopia!

LEAD PRAYER COORDINATOR

NANCY HUFF

Nancy Huff is an educator with a mission to equip believers to pray strategically for the Cultural Mountain of Education. She has authored Taking the Mountain of Education: A Strategic Prayer Guide to Transform America's Schools. She leads prayer groups to pray at key educational locations across the United States.

Currently, Nancy serves as the Heartland Apostolic Prayer Network (HAPN) Lead Prayer Coordinator for the Mountain of Education.

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