{"id":7183,"date":"2011-04-05T19:09:12","date_gmt":"2011-04-05T23:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/?p=7183"},"modified":"2011-04-05T19:09:12","modified_gmt":"2011-04-05T23:09:12","slug":"preschools-are-using-a-marxists-theories-to-manufacture-collectivists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/2011\/04\/05\/preschools-are-using-a-marxists-theories-to-manufacture-collectivists\/","title":{"rendered":"Preschools Are Using a Marxist’s Theories to Manufacture Collectivists"},"content":{"rendered":"

Preschools Are Using a Marxist’s Theories to Manufacture Collectivists<\/strong>
\nBy Chuck Rog\u00e9r | American Thinker | March 27, 2011<\/a><\/p>\n

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. . . Vygotsky theorized that by changing “the tools of thinking available to a child, his mind will have a radically different structure.”[8] At Metropolitan State College of Denver, the “Tools of the Mind” organization develops Vygotskyian curricula and trains teachers to wire radically different thinking into the brains of children in 18,000 preschool and kindergarten classrooms throughout America. And the number is growing. <\/em><\/p>\n

What constitutes “radically different” thinking? To answer, we examine Vygotsky’s motivation. <\/p>\n

Two prominent psychologists find that Lev Vygotsky’s “Marxist orientation” determined “his scientific preoccupations,” in other words, his education theories.[9] Revealingly, nine years after Vladimir Lenin violently seized power and fathered the USSR, Vygotsky lauded “the cleansing threat of social revolution.” Furthermore, Vygotsky cheered the crumbling of “the very foundations of bourgeois morality,” insisted that the achievement mentality “be swept clear out of our schools,” and anointed educators with the job of instilling a new morality. To Soviet Vygotsky, the best morality was Soviet collectivism. <\/p>\n

Vygotsky intended to “create the new Soviet Man, the kind of being that would be needed in the Soviet society of the future.” The psychologist conceived the “Zone of Proximal Development” (ZPD), a tool for reconditioning young minds and forming a new society from the old. Vygotsky aimed to deliver young collectivists to ruling class elites intent on “societal reconstruction.”[10] <\/p>\n

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The obsession with social versus equal justice parallels a learning theory called constructivism. A devotee to the theory, Vygotsky viewed knowledge as each person’s individual “construct.” The notion, contemptuous of reality, led the man to conceive methods that trap children in progressivism’s central struggle: the rejection of said reality. Preschools, which use Vygotsky’s creative play to relieve the tension between pretend and real worlds, implant fairy-tale realities in children. The progressive K-12 system then supercharges the Pollyannaish programming.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nIn kindergarten and preschool classrooms all over America, tiny young humans are being taught to regiment each other’s behavior. Obedient little collectivists are learning to submit to group wishes in order to be judged “correct” — politically correct. . . .<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Preschools Are Using a Marxist’s Theories to Manufacture Collectivists By Chuck Rog\u00e9r | American Thinker | March 27, 2011 Excerpt: . . . Vygotsky theorized that by changing “the tools of thinking available to a child, his mind will have a radically different structure.”[8] At Metropolitan State College of Denver, the “Tools of the Mind” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7184,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7183\/revisions\/7184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}