In August of the same year (1911), McCLURE'S magazine published an article titled "Masters of America: The Seven Men," which warned that "all fundamental resources, all industries capable of forming a unit, are being drawn together toward monopoly control…. And if corporate centralization of power continues unchecked, what is the next great popular agitation to be in this country? For state socialism?"
Education was an important component of the Rockefeller plan, and he hired a reassuring Baptist minister, Frederick Gates, to set up his General Education Board in 1902 to oversee this effort. From this position, Gates wrote Occasional Letter No. 1 (published 1912), stating that "in our dream, we have limitless resources, and the people (rural folk) yield themselves with perfect docility to our molding hand… unhampered by tradition." Rockefeller education initiatives applied to city schools, too, as Mayor John Hylan of New York City said in THE NEW YORK TIMES (March 27, 1922): "One of my first acts as mayor was to pitch out… from the educational system of our city the Rockefeller agents" and others who planned "to fit the children for the mill and factory."
The Rockefeller Foundation throughout the 20th century would try to influence many aspects of American education, for example supporting the School-Health Coordinating Service begun in 1939. But the Rockefeller plan's educational component ultimately has been to facilitate globalism. In Edith Roosevelt's 1962 article "The Universal Theocratic State," she revealed: "Curriculum are being drafted to indoctrinate our children in what John D. Rockefeller, Jr. called 'the church of all people.'… plans are being made to set up regional world Universities whose objectives would include… 'to build a world outlook'…." At the end of the next decade, the Rockefeller Foundation supported a 3-volume set, including James Becker's SCHOOLING FOR A GLOBAL AGE, attempting to convince parents and the general public of the necessity of a global perspective, "otherwise children and youth enrolled in globally oriented programs may find themselves in conflict with values assumed in the home."
In the mid-1980s, Seattle schools "Rockefeller Project" promoted "global education," and in 1987 the Rockefeller Foundation helped finance Global Perspectives in Education's "The United States Prepares for its Future: Global Perspectives in Education, Report of the Study Commission on Global Education."
In November 1992, when Bill Clinton was elected president, David Rockefeller, Jr., who was on the board of the National Center on Education and the Economy, "celebrated" Clinton's victory which would give NCEE the chance to implement a "cradle-to-grave" plan "to integrate education and human resource development" that could require radical changes in attitudes, values and beliefs.
Changing attitudes, values and beliefs were also aspects of "social control" which, like education, was an important component of the Rockefeller plan. In order to control people, the Rockefellers knew they had to have the ability to monitor what people do. In that regard, investigative reporter Thomas Lawson in EVERYBODY'S magazine (August 1904) learned "about the greatest information bureau in the world. A 'Standard Oil' agent is in every hamlet of the country." Of course, it was also an important aspect of control to be able to manage what information the American people received. In that regard, in 1905 U.S. Rep. Joseph Sibley (Rockefeller Standard Oil payoff man in Washington) wrote a letter to John D. Archbold (Standard Oil's money provider) saying, "An efficient literary bureau is needed, not for a day or a crisis but a permanent healthy control of the Associated Press and kindred avenues. It will cost money but it will be the cheapest in the end."
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