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1. on June 4, 2010 at 11:49 am Tom Hickey

   Bill Mitchell, Poisoning the minds of the young — billy blog

   Today I am writing about child cruelty. We would all react to child cruelty in the same way – it is repugnant and undermines the chances of the child maturing into a fully functional adult replete with capacities that promote self esteem and allow meaningful and enduring relationships. So what would we think of child cruelty when a high level government agency is engaged in it? What would we think of a government that was poisoning the minds of the young? Many Americans write to me accusing me of being a communist sympathiser and claiming that freedom was subjugated under those regimes via brutal indoctrination mechanisms embedded in their societal infrastructure. Maybe it was. But the Americans don’t actually have to look very far nor resort to history to find regimes that use indoctrination to oppress their citizens’ free spirits, including the intellectual development of their children. On Thursday, June 3, the Director of the US Congressional Budget Office wrote his Letter to a Seventh Grader. It contains pure indoctrination designed to develop fears about budget deficits at an early age.

   
   
2. on June 4, 2010 at 12:09 pm Nick Krafft

   Suffice it to say that miseducation occurs in a number of topics at that grade level. I know, I know, Bill is just using it as a device. However, the most harmful impact is at the university level, I think. And I guess also any level where they show the Big Scary Debt Clock (I first saw it at age 16).