GLOBAL School Curriculum. Good Luck Fuckers

New World Order Education: Useful Engines in the “One World Schoolhouse”

By Prof. James F. Tracy

Global Research, October 19, 2012

Region: USA

Theme: Culture, Society & History

He’s a really useful engine, you know
All the other engines they’ll tell you so
He huffs and puffs and whistles
Rushing to and fro
He’s the really useful engine we adore[1]

A Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation-funded online education service seeks to introduce and control a one-size-fits-all worldwide school curriculum. The strategy aptly fits alongside historically persistent schemes to further restructure education en route to an internationally-based technocratic order.

A seemingly benign and playful lyric from the overwhelmingly popular toddler’s animation Thomas the Tank Engine captures the modus operandi and consequence of American public education over the past century. Like the child subjected to years of compulsory schooling, Thomas is an entity devoid of meaningful social agency and reduced to demonstrating his overall worth by being “useful” in Sir Topham Hatt’s enterprise.

As an institutional process definitively influenced over the past century by the world’s most wealthy and influential figures, public schools equip individuals with a performativity code that functions along the lines of how Thomas behaves for his overseer, with the implicit knowledge that life has largely been planned; his intellectual and creative faculties reduced to an instrumental motivation to merely stay “on track.”

Contrary to the jingoistic and contradictory claim that modern education “equips young people for democratic citizenship,” the actual development and employment of educational techniques suggests how the overall environment and method utilized in today’s public education system has for years been increasingly reshaped to produce “useful engines” largely incapable of independent thought and personal enfranchisement.

The system’s strong sociopolitical underpinnings lie in the fact that most public school teachers are also products of such training and thus oblivious to schooling’s overall dehumanizing rituals and scope.                read on...