The philosophy of the classroom today will be the philosophy of government tomorrow." Abraham Lincoln

¨In one of its first efforts in 1949, the UNESCO textbook titled “Toward World Understanding,” used to teach teachers what to teach, said:  “As long as the child breathes the poisoned air of nationalism, education in the world-mindedness can produce only rather precarious results.  As we have pointed out, it is frequently the family that infects the child with extreme nationalism.”

¨“Generally, more highly educated people who have higher incomes, consume more resources than poorly educated people, who tend to have lower incomes.  In this case, more education increases the threat of sustainability.”  Education for Sustainable Development Guide (NOTE:  This guide was written at the U of TN Knoxville, TN)

¨“Give me four years to teach the children and the seeds I have sown will never be uprooted.” Vladimir Lenin

¨“Your children’s children will live under Communism.  You Americans are so gullible.  No, you won’t accept Communism outright; but we’ll keep feeding you small doses of Socialism until you finally wake up and find that you already have Communism.  We won’t have to fight you; WE’LL SO WEAKEN YOUR ECONOMY, until you fall like overripe fruit into our hands.” Nikita Krushchev, 1959

¨“Education should aim at destroying free will so that after pupils are thus schooled they will be incapable throughout the rest of their lives of thinking or acting otherwise than as their school masters would have wished ... The social psychologist of the future will have a number of classes of school children on whom they will try different methods of producing an unshakable conviction that snow is black. When the technique has been perfected, every government that has been in charge of education for more than one generation will be able to control its subjects securely without the need of armies or policemen.” - Johann Gottlieb Fichte