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Discerning the Times Digest and NewsBytes
Last year, my then fourth grade son brought home a Harry
Potter book. His teacher had been reading another of these books to
the class, and he was enchanted. They are written by British author, J.K.
Rowling, and are extremely popular with upper-aged elementary and middle
school students. With titles like Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s
Stone, and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, a Christian
parent would naturally become uneasy. A quick perusal reveals these books
are full of descriptions of children doing spells and incantations. As bad
as these books are, they don’t hold a candle to the inherent danger
found in the actual curriculum being taught in most schools.
In most cases, I believe that the teachers are simply
unaware of the origin of the curriculum that they are using. They are our
neighbors, simply people who love kids and have a desire to teach. However
the upper echelon of the educational system both nationally and globally
are clearly very aware.
Robert Muller, former UN Undersecretary General, is the
central figure in the UN sponsored global education reforms. Muller
founded an educational program called The World Core Curriculum,
in which many of the occult teachings of Alice Bailey are incorporated
(See DTT, March, 1999). The preface of the World Core Curriculum
states, "The World is indebted to Dr. Robert Muller...for the
formulation of the World Core Curriculum in its skeleton form. It is upon
that scaffold combined with the Ageless Wisdom teachings that this present
work has precipitated. The underlying philosophy upon which The Robert
Muller School is based will be found in the teachings set forth in the
books of Alice A. Bailey by the Tibetan teacher, Djwhal Khul..."
Published by Lucis Trust, originally named Lucifer
Publishing Company, Bailey’s 24 books teach that Lucifer is the light of
hope for mankind. She claimed to have channeled her teachings from her
spirit guide whom she alleged was a Tibetan teacher named Djwhal Khul.
Muller has established numerous schools throughout the
world, the first of which is in Arlington, Texas. Before you say to
yourself, "what’s this have to do with me?" understand this:
you may not have ever heard of The World Core Curriculum, but I’ll
guarantee that if you have school-aged children, you have heard of its
offspring, Goals 2000. First introduced as America 2000 in
1991 by Lamar Alexander, Secretary of Education in the Bush
Administration, Goals 2000 is patterned after the occultic
outcome-based goals of the World Core Curriculum and today provides
the educational cornerstone of most public school districts in America.
Muller wants children to embrace new global ideas and
to be free from the antiquated belief systems of their parents. In his
book The Birth of a Global Civilization, Muller states: "In
the long run, only the right global education will be our salvation on
this planet. Children are born with more or less the same senses into the
world. But very soon they are ‘wired in’ by a culture, a religion, and
ideology, a nation. There is only one thing with which they are never
really wired in: their membership in the entire human family....The lack
of proper world education [is] one of our most glaring and dangerous
deficiencies."
Consequently, children who have no religious training,
who do not know the God of the Bible, are considered ready for learning
this new global paradigm. Children who have been "wired in" with
the Christian faith must be re-trained. John Goodlad, who has served on
the boards of UNESCO’s Institute for Education and Global Perspectives
in Education stated in Schooling for the Future, a report to the
President’s Commission of Schools Finance, Issue # 9, 1971, that "most
youth still hold the same values as their parents....If we do not alter
this pattern, if we don’t resocialize....our society may decay."
Because in the new paradigm facts are not constant but
relative, this educational system does not concentrate on the teaching of
facts, but rather its focus is teaching students to ponder universal
"truths" and to envision their own perfection in order to
connect with their inner wisdom and become part of the global mind. The
goal is a planet of global citizens who no longer hold to the rigid,
narrow minded teachings of antiquity such as faith in the God of the Bible,
love of country, and a belief in absolutes. The first and only line of
defense for our children is the very faith in the one true God that is
under fire by the global elite. V
ks
