Jeremy Maddux’s Reviews > The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America: A Chronological Paper Trail > Status Update

'Thirteen years after Muller's death in 1967 a sperm bank was established in California in Muller's honor, the Repository for Germinal Choice, which stores and distributes the sperm of Nobel Prize winners and others of "exceptional" ability.'

'Thorndike equated children with the rats, monkeys, fish, cats, and chickens upon which he experimented in his laboratory and was prepared to apply what he found there to learning in the classroom. He extrapolated "laws" from his research into animal behavior which he then applied to the training of teachers, who took what they had learned to every corner of the United States and ran their classrooms.'

'The reason Americans do not understand this war is because it has been fought in secret —in the schools of our nation, targeting our children. The wagers of this war are using very sophisticated and effective tools: • Hegelian Dialectic [common ground, consensus and compromise) • Gradualism [two steps forward; one step backward) • Semantic deception [redefining terms to get agreement without understanding.'