“…‘National, Rational, Republican Education, Free for All, at the Expense of All, Conducted under the Guardianship of the State,’ apart from the contaminating influence of parents…”

Be sure to catch Dr. Den­nis Cud­dy’s fas­ci­nat­ing arti­cle “Com­mon Core” post­ed on NewsWith­Views 3/2/15, in which he divulges some fas­ci­nat­ing ear­ly his­to­ry on how edu­ca­tion began to be con­trolled by an elite “intel­li­gentsia of Horace Man­n’s day… the first half of the 1800s.”

Dr. Cud­dy, an expert his­to­ri­an who has delved into much ear­ly edu­ca­tion his­to­ry, wrote:

Accord­ing to Will Mon­roe’s HISTORY OF THE PESTALOZZIAN METHOD IN THE UNITED STATES (1907), the edu­ca­tion­al ideas of (Illu­mi­nati mem­ber) Pestalozzi began to be print­ed in jour­nals and text­books in the Unit­ed States in 1806.

He notes that from its very incep­tion these ideas were used to forge utopi­an com­mu­ni­ty education:

Utopi­an Social­ist Robert Owen vis­it­ed Pestalozzi at Yver­don, Switzer­land in 1818, and applied the Illu­min­ist’s edu­ca­tion­al prin­ci­ples in Britain and Amer­i­ca. In 1825, Owen estab­lished the first com­mune in the Unit­ed States in New Har­mo­ny, Indiana.

Read the rest of the arti­cle. Note that it is Part 1 in an upcom­ing series by Dr. Cud­dy on this top­ic of “Com­mon Core.”

Relat­ed arti­cles include:
Com­mon Core Career Readiness
Com­mon Core Persists
Com­mon Core Char­ter Vil­lage Hub Schools