The International Baccalaureate (IB) program was started in the mid 1960s by
European diplomats who wanted their children to have an undergraduate program
that would enable them to attend college anywhere in the world. IB is run by a
non-governmental organization called the International Baccalaureate
Organization (IBO). In 1996 UNESCO formed a “partnership” with IBO to form what
it called a universal “curriculum framework for peace education.” [Reported in
The Washington Times, January 18, 2004]
IB has been adopted by 1,450 schools worldwide, 502 of them being in the
United States. IB requires that the tests administered under the program be sent
to the IB headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland for grading. The U.S. Department
of Education recently established a $1.2 million grant program for middle
schools that are willing to participate in IB and become feeder schools for IB
high schools. [Ibid]
The Washington Times reported that IB is now a pilot program of UNESCO
developed for the purpose of creating what UNESCO calls an “international
education system.” The purpose of IB, said UNESCO, is to “… be a school of
values, attitudes, [and] above all of practical action … [Ibid]
The IB website states that the IB curriculum is based on six themes. These
six themes are as follows www.ibo.org:
- Who we are
- Where we are in place and time
- How we express ourselves
- How the world works
- How we organize ourselves
- Sharing the planet
These six themes focus more on attitudes, values, beliefs and behavior than
on academic knowledge, just as UNESCO said. That is, IB is transformational
education as opposed to knowledge-based education. The IB themes taken together
constitute a worldview--an overall philosophy of life. According to UNESCO, the
worldview taught by IB includes the promotion of the Earth Charter (a
religious/pantheistic document),* the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
(which views human rights the same way Communist countries view human rights) **
and multiculturalism (which is based on the ideology of Italian Marxist, Antonio
Gramsci).*** http://tinyurl.com/2dj85
Because of the non-academic nature of IB, many colleges and universities will
not accept IB courses as fulfilling undergraduate requirements for admission.
[Reported in The Washington Times, January 18, 2004]
America’s foundational principles of national sovereignty, natural law and
inalienable rights are at odds with the IB curriculum and are not taught. IBO
explicitly states that its curriculum does not follow the political system of
any particular nation, including the United States.
In summary, IB is a transformational system of education which exists to
promote internationalism. It is structured to change the attitudes, values,
beliefs and behavior of its students to conform to the world government system.
Dr. Ian Hill, Deputy Director of IBO, recently said that the primary goal of IBO
is the promotion of “world citizenship.” [In his article, “Curriculum
Development and Ethics in International Education,” given at the UN Disarmament
Forum, 2001, www.unidir.ch/pdf/articles/pdf-art53.pdf
* The Earth Charter is a broadly defined religious and political document
that promotes the following positions:
- Earth worship (pantheism).
- Socialized medicine.
- World government.
- Abortion on-demand.
- Education for sustainability including spiritual education in New
Age/pantheism.
- Adoption of the gay rights agenda.
- Elimination of the right to bear arms.
** The UN Declaration of Human Rights ends with the words: “These rights and
freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of
the United Nations.” That is, the UN Declaration of Human Rights takes the same
form as the constitutions of all Communist countries which say that governmental
policies have higher standing than individual human rights. The U.S. Declaration
of Independence, in contrast, states that human rights have a higher priority
than government decisions.
*** Multiculturalism, as defined by Samuel Huntington, Richard Bernstein, and
David Horowitz:
- Believes that all cultures are equal. It also intends that all groups have
equal outcomes -- on income levels, education test scores, use of natural
resources, and the like.
- Follows the Marxist worldview that portrays government as being a creation
of the powerful used to keep themselves in control and used to exploit the weak
and vulnerable.
- Is postmodernist. It views knowledge as being a tool by which the powerful
subdue the vulnerable. Even language and traditional academic disciplines such
as mathematics are viewed as constructs by which the strong exploit the weak.
- Views history as the study of "multiple perspectives" of history.
Traditional history is to be deconstructed, and students are expected to
construct their own history (under the guidance of IB instructors).
- Sees morality, modesty, human rights and the family as being mere
constructs. Believes that marriage is a creation of powerful males used to keep
vulnerable females under subjection. Includes obscenity for the purpose of
deconstructing student beliefs about modesty, morality and marriage.
- Takes a negative view of individualism. Group identity and group rights are
promoted instead. An emphasis on group projects and group grading is used to
teach group identification and group consciousness.
- Sees private property rights from the same Marxist perspective. Views
Christianity as a construct used by the powerful to exploit the masses.
Multiculturalism is opposed to Christianity.
[This article is included in the Appendix of The Battle For America Being
Fought In Our Schools, by Allen Quist, to be published in the Fall of 2004]
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