Remaking Our Culture

"The predominant value system of an entire culture can be overturned in one generation, or certainly in two, by those with unlimited access to children."

"[Achieving our goals] will require a change in the prevailing culture -- the
attitudes, values, norms and accepted ways of doing things. . . .
The question is how to bring about this kind of cultural
transformation on the scale we have in mind."

-- Marc Tucker, School-to-Work architect

by Rod D. Martin
January 30, 1999

The Berlin Wall is down, and Communism pronounced dead; even ClintonCare has been defeated (sort of). But School-to-Work lives on.

School-to-Work, or Workforce Education, is a part of Goals 2000, already federal law and seeking implementation by numerous state legislatures, including Arkansas', even as we speak. Designed by ClintonCare guru Ira Magaziner and Friend-of-Hillary Marc Tucker, among others -- it is rapidly replacing traditional education just as single-payer would have replaced your doctor. In the words of former Labor Department economist Mark Wilson, "it says we need to change the way we teach our kids -- make it more work-oriented. It's industrial planning on th…