Professor Diana L. Eck, an expert on Hinduism, chairs Harvard’s Committee on the Study of Religion. She created a multi-media CD for the Pluralism Project titled "On Common Ground: World Religions in America." "Pluralism is an achievement,” she explained. “…It requires relationship, it requires engagement around a common table, so to speak, of our civic society." There's "no question" the project has "the potential to wake people up to the importance of religion in the curriculum," said Charles Haynes. [Holly J. Lebowitz, Religion News site http://www.religionnews.com/, 11-19-97.]
1. Charles L. Overby, the chairman and CEO of The Freedom Forum, was editor and corporate executive for the Gannett Company, America's largest newspaper company, which owns USA Today. It founded the Gannett Foundation, which was renamed The Freedom Forum in 1991. It has international offices in Hong Kong, London, Buenos Aires and Johannesburg.
[2] On March 23, 2000, The American Assembly convened a three-day conference to "define policies and actions concerning the role of religion in American public life." Titled Uniting America: Toward a Common Purpose, it aimed "to reverse some of the most difficult and divisive forces in our society." Charles Haynes was a co-director of this Assembly. Haynes also moderated a panel discussion which included Forrest L. Turpen as a panelist. The liberal and global-minded Ford Foundation and the Henry Luce Foundation helped fund this Assembly.
[3]See http://www.freedomforum.org/religion/1999/11/11biblepublicschools.asp
[4] Mikhail Gorbachev, “New World Order: Consensus,” The Cape Cod Times, January 28, 1993.
[5] UNESCO's Education and Human Development website: http://www.unesco.org/education/educprog/brochure/002.html
[6] G. Brock Chisholm, "The Re-Establishment of Peacetime Society," Psychiatry, February 1946.
[7] Temple of Understanding Newsletter,
1991. Here is the rest of the statement quoted in the text above: "The
productions feature such outstanding scholars as Huston Smith, Alan Watts and
Joseph Campbell... Titles currently offered by the Hartley Film Foundation
include
[8] Charles Haynes, ed., Finding Common Ground:
A First Amendment Guide to Religion and Public Education (The Freedom
Forum First Amendment Center, 1994), pages A:11-13.
[9] The Relationship of Religion to Moral Education in the Public Schools at <http://www.gwu.edu/~ccps/pop_moral.html>. According to the first footnote in this article, this paper is a shorter version of another article by Nord and Haynes titled Taking Religion Seriously Across the Curriculum, which was published by the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development in August, 1998. "Background documents and consensus guidelines for understanding the civic framework outlined in the paper may be found in Finding Common Ground: A First Amendment Guide to Religion and Public Education (1994, 1996, 1998), edited by Charles C. Haynes and Oliver Thomas. The educational framework is developed at considerably greater length in Warren A. Nord's Religion and American Education: Rethinking a National Dilemma (1995)."
[10] Our Creative Diversity, UNESCO,
p.169, 171.
[11] See a comparison between Communist brainwashing strategies and tactics used to change values in U.S. classrooms at Brainwashing and "Education Reform.
[12]
Edward Hunter, Brainwashing: The story of the men who defied it
(Pyramid Books, 1956), 201.
[13] "The Relationship of Religion to Moral Education in the Public Schools" at http://www.gwu.edu/~ccps/pop_moral.html
[14] "Mental Health and World Citizenship”, a report by the International Congress on Mental Health, London, 1948. I have a copy of this paper.
15. Dean Gotcher is founder and president of the Institution for Authority Research. To learn more about the consensus process from this respected authority, contact him by calling 918-596-4422.
16. Raymond Houghton, To Nurture Humaneness: Commitment for the '70's (The Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development of the NEA, 1970).
[17] The Relationship of Religion to Moral Education in the Public Schools," posted on the Communitarian Network website]
[18] I have transcribed Dr. McCune's speech from a conference video.
[19] Dr. Donald A. Cowan, at a 1988 forum address at the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture. This address formed the nucleus for Cowan's book Unbinding Prometheus: Education for the Coming Age (published by the Dallas Institute Press.)
* "The guidebook says supernatural happenings and divine actions described in the Bible many not be taught as historical fact. And it says students should be exposed to a variety of religious and secular Biblical interpretations." [Diverse Groups Endorse Bible Study Guide for Schools]
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