RemnantInWilderness

Bernard Pyron

The Frankfurt School played an important role

in the origin of the counterculture, the sex lib movement and

perhaps in part in the New Age Occult movement. Theodore W. Adorno and Herbert Marcuse of the Frankfurt School operated from major American universities and their ideas influenced the more educated Baby Boomers who created the counterculture. In turn, the counterculture weakened Christianity in the U.S., lowered our moral standards and created widespread divorce.

I came across a web site somewhere saying that Georg Lukacs (1885-1971), the Hungarian Jewish Marxist, when he was Deputy Commissar for the Bolshevik Regime in Hungary in 1918 introduced a sex education program in the schools which tried to promote sex outside of marriage. It didn’t

go over too well.

Like Antonio Gramsci, Lukacs said Christianity must first be destroyed

before Marxism can take over the West.Theorode W. Adorno, of the

Frankfurt School, in his

1950 book The Authoritarian Personality, posing as a personality and

social psychologist, claimed that fascism is caused by Christianity

and the strong family and wanted to get rid of both. The naive

American personality and social shrinks of the fifties and sixties

bought this propaganda as hypotheses to be tested in studies using

questionnaires.

To some extent Adorno’s propaganda filtered down out of the major

universities to the the Baby Boomers who created the hippie movement

and the entire counterculture. Self psychology under Carl

Rogers and A.H. Maslow, as well as the art bohemian movement, were

strands of the counterculture. Herbert Marcuse of the Frankfurt

School was one of the main fathers of the New Left and wrote about

it and gave talks to students on the New left. His book, Eros and

Civilization, was important in promoting the sex lib strand of the

counterculture. Wilhelm Reich, the psychoanalyst of the Frankfurt School also had an influence upon the sexual liberation movement. Reich was highly anti-Christian.

Since Max Horkheimer as director of the Frankfurt School for Social

Research decided to use the Institute to promote the ideas of George

Lukacs, I wonder if Herbert Marcuse was just carrying on the bent of

Bolshevik Commissar Lukacs to weaken the family and Christian

morality by advocating sex outside of marriage?

And Freud is the guy who in subtle ways helped start the anti-

Christian and sex lib movements in the West.”

There is another school of thought, like the Frankfurt School

centered in the major American universities, which has had a

tremendous anti-Christian influence upon this country and is largely

responsible for the deliberate dumbing down of Americans. Charlotte

Iserbyt wrote a book on “Proegressive Education” called “The

deliberate Dumbing Down of America.”

This influence is sometimes called the Leipzig School. The Leipzig

School began with Wilhelm Wundt (1832-1920), known as the father of

experimental psychology. At the University of Leipzig, Wundt

established one of the first labs to experimentally study some forms

of human behavior, largely sensory psychology. William James had

created a lab for experimental psychology at about this same time in

the U.S. Wundt trained the first generation of American experimental

psychologists. His influence was so great in this country that

almost all experimental psychologists trained in the major

universities can trace their lineage back to Wundt.

One of Wundt’s Ph.D. students was Edward Bradford Titchener (1867-

1927), who taught experimental psychology at Cornell for years. Karl

M. Dallenbach received his Ph.D. under Titchener, and in his later

years Dallenbach taught introductory psychology at the University of

Texas where I was his student at one time.

Granville Stanley Hall (1844-1924) received his Ph.D. under William

James (1842-1910) but also studied under Wilhelm Wundt at Leipzig.

Hall became interested in child psychology and in education. At

Johns Hopkins University John Dewey (1859-1952) received his Ph.D.

under Hall. Dewey became the founder of “Progressive Education” in

America. Dewey was influenced by the reductionist approach of Wundt

as well as later by the educational system in the Soviet Union. I

wonder if Dewey got some ideas from the early Bolsevick

sex education programs, especially that of Commissar Georg Lukacs

(1885-1971) in Hungary in 1918. Lukacs had an influence upon the

Frankfurt School.

The Leipzig School then is largely made up of Wilhelm Wundt,

Granville Stanley Hall and John Dewey. Some of their younger

followers could also be included in the Leipzig School.

Just as Charles Darwin promoted an anti-Christian mindset, so

Wilhelm Wundt created a godless world view based upon his

experimental psychology. Wundt’s approach to human behavior reduced

man to his animal nature. Later behaviorism under John B. Watson

and B.F. Skinner, following Wundt to some extent, reduced man to

drives and conditioning. Skinner was clearly opposed to

Christianity. Dewey continued the anti-Christian attitude of Wundt

and apparently Wundt’s reduction of humans to their animal nature.

At first Dewey worked from the Rockefeller founded Education

Department of the University of Chicago. In 1904 Dewey moved to

Columbia Teacher’s College of Columbia University. At Columbia his

influence on American education became tremendous.

We can see Dewey’s possible influence on Carl Rogers who got his

graduate education at Columbia. Rogers emphasized feelings over

cognitive abilities, as does Dewey’s “Progressive Education,”

Since Rogers taught that desires and feelings are the most

important part of the human self, then there is some

indirect influence of Dewey upon the counterculture.

In addition to being Anti-Christian, Dewey was a socialist. He

rejected God

and all absolute truth and absolute morality. To Dewey, man was just

a biological organism without a soul. He opposed teaching basic

reading, writing and math which can help students develop their

cognitive and thinking abilities. Dewey’s influence on American

education over the years helped to produce people who feel and have

opinions rather than think and try to understand reality. To Dewey

personal experience leads to learning.

Dewey’s “Progressive Education” has developed in such a way that it

favors slower students and hinders students with higher

intelligence. Some students who may have higher intelligence but

are frustrated by being hindered by their teachers may be diagnosed

by the School Shrinks as having Attention Deficit Disorder and

ordered to take Ritalin and in some cases also anti-depressants.

Ritalin can become addictive. It has caused heart disease in children

and even death (http://www.ritalindeath.com). “Attention Deficit Disorder”

is a supposed new psychological condition School Psychologists and Psychiatrists

have dreamed up. It involves inattention and hyperactivity.

On http://www.jesus-is-lord.com/ritalin.htm they say that “Ritalin and amphetamine frequently cause the very same problems they are supposed to treat–inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity. A large percentage of children become robotic, lethargic, depressed, or withdrawn on stimulants…”

Making school children who have higher intelligence “robotic, depressed or withdrawn” would appear also to reduce their cognitive functioning somewhat, making them less intelligent. In addition, the site above reports that Ritalin withdrawal can cause “… emotional suffering, including depression, exhaustion, and suicide. This can make children seem psychiatrically disturbed and lead mistakenly to increased doses of medication. Ritalin is addictive and can become a gateway drug to other addictions. It is a common drug of abuse among children and adults.”

“Progressive Education” is in large part responsible for the drugging of millions of school children by Ritalin.

In Dewey’s system absolute morality is taboo and was replaced by

moral relativism, values clarification and situation ethics. The

system may have helped create some morally reprobate teachers and

students, if not some psychopaths.

Under the influence of Dewey and the Leipzig School of Wundt,and

Hall, as well as Skinner, the American public school system came to

focus on indoctrination and socialization. The teaching of literacy

and most other cognitive skills suffered under this school.

Marc Tucker (born 1940) has become one contemporary promoter of the

Leipzig School’s “Progressive Education” plans. In 1992 Tucker

outlined a plan for the federal government to fully take over all

public schools in the states. Tucker wants to have behavorial

psychologists decide what is taught in the public schools. He

advocates outcome-based education to replace training in the

basics. Training in the basics sometimes produces independent

thinkers. A totalitarian society run in part on Fred Skinner’s

behaviorist model of reward and punishment cannot tolerate free

thinkers. For the totalitarians there are too many “free thinkers”

now on the Internet. In addition, totalitarians do not want

Christians running around who teach the truths of the Bible.

Tucker wants public education to educate young people to meet

whatever goals the state wants to meet. Tucker’s totalitarian

agenda is the foundation for the Goals 2000 and the School-To-Work

Acts passed by Congress.

If Hillary is elected President in 2008 Tucker will likely be

appointed to head her Department of Education and then he may do

more harm to our public schools and culture. Bible prophecy

indicates that in the last days things will go completely bad.

Bernard