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Indoctrination: How 'Useful Idiots' Are Using Our Schools to Subvert American Exceptionalism Hardcover – October 28, 2011


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  • Hardcover: 216 pages
  • Publisher: AuthorHouse (October 28, 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1467060410
  • ISBN-13: 978-1467060417
  • Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.6 x 9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
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About the Author

Kyle Olson became a warrior for education reform when he began noticing corruption in the system: unions putting the interests of adults first, teachers using their classrooms for leftist propaganda sessions and politicians being elected by special interests, only to turn around and do their bidding. He was shocked by what he learned when making his first documentary film series, "Kids Aren't Cars" When Kyle's oldest son recently came of schooling age, these issues became intensely personal for him. Kyle started Education Action Group, a Michigan-based non-profit organization, four years ago to do something about the problem. Kyle believes the nation's public education system should promote the traditional American ideals of freedom and personal liberty, instead of the progressive ideals of collectivism and centralized government. While the education establishment clamors for ever greater amounts of "investment" Kyle counters that our schools have a spending problem, not a funding problem. He also believes administrators and school employee unions must be held accountable for the miserable return taxpayers are receiving from all their so-called investments. Kyle has communicated the need for education reform by contributing regularly to BigGovernment.com, TownHall.com and makes frequent appearances on talk radio programs across the country. He has appeared numerous times on Fox News Channel, MSNBC, Fox Business Network, and National Public Radio. His and EAG's work has also been cited by the Drudge Report, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck. While Kyle likes talking politics, he especially likes to talk about his family, as well as his favorite music. Bob Dylan, Neil Young and Johnny Cash are at the top of the list. He has attended 22 Bob Dylan shows. He graduated from Michigan State University in 2001. Connect with Kyle at KyleOlson.org, Facebook.com/kyleolson4 or kyolson4@gmail.com. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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107 of 120 people found the following review helpful By Camp2012 on November 17, 2011
Format: Paperback
Do you think children should be "pledging allegiance to the Earth" instead of to the American flag? Should they be taught that if bees were workers, they'd be more valuable to the world's GDP than all of us, combined? Should kids in farming communities be taught, systematically, that their parents' use of tractors is killing polar bears by way of emissions and global warming?

Sadly, as Kyle Olson exposes in this eminently readable book -- that's exactly what kids in America are being taught in public schools. "Indoctrination" provides a lion's share of shocking, sad, and outrageous examples of the nonsense that leftist agitators are forcing on children when their parents aren't around. In short, Olson shows that kids are being taught everything BUT what parents are sending their kids to school to learn: things like English, math, and history.

Perhaps most surprising, as I learned in this book, is how many schools are trashing tried-and-true curriculum for lesson plans crafted by far-left foundations, nonprofits, and environmental extremists. Is your kid going to school and, in science class, instead of dissecting a frog or learning about physics, watching a series of anti-corporate, anti-American videos on YouTube created by Greenpeace?

This is a solid book, but it's shocking in what it uncovers.
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46 of 56 people found the following review helpful By L. Sand on December 2, 2011
Format: Hardcover
Indoctrination: How `Useful Idiots' Are Using Our Schools to Subvert American Exceptionalism is an invaluable book written by Kyle Olson, founder and CEO of the Education Action Group, an organization that is on the frontline of education reform and a champion of school choice.

In this brief and very readable book, Olson describes the ways that the progressives in our society have taken over K-12 education. They have been running most of our elite colleges and schools of education for years now and this step is in keeping with their plan to transform America.

As a public school teacher whose career spanned four decades, I have seen the long march first hand. Perverting the traditional purpose of American education (which has been to make better and more educated citizens), progressives have been inspired by the theories of Paolo Freire, a Brazilian socialist who saw everything through a Marxist class warfare lens.

Carrying Freire's mantle, current gurus like revolutionary terrorist Bill Ayers and the recently deceased Communist Howard Zinn have been behind the effort to destroy America as we know it. They claim that basically the U.S. and its capitalist system are the root of all evil. Unfortunately, their love-the-world/hate-America attitude has gained an incredible amount of currency in our public schools in a relatively short time. Ayers, Zinn and their ilk have essentially managed to convince much of the education establishment to abandon every teaching technique and curriculum that benefited prior generations. For example, "drill and kill" has been thrown on the refuse heap; we are now supposed to let our students "discover" learning. The "sage on the stage" has been replaced by the "guide on the side.
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27 of 37 people found the following review helpful By D4E0 on December 4, 2011
Format: Hardcover
How can you review a book without reading it first?

I think you should educate yourself first - by reading it - and then review it.
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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful By Amazon Customer on April 14, 2012
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This book is one everyone should read. It takes the text out of actual school books and shows what our children are being taught. They're not being taught about American history; they ARE being indoctrinated to the socialist mindset. WAKE UP, AMERICA!

The opinions of unproven hypothoses are taught as fact. The "special interests" agendas are being pushed on our children. No moment of prayer or silence or mention of God in our schools, but the "alternative lifestyles" are forced into the curriculum. Union organizing tools are taught in math questions. This is outrageous and people should be furious.

Teach our kids how to read and write and teach them about our founding history; not your agendas!

Investigate whether these books that are named in INDOCTRINATION are being used in your schools. Get them out! Stop manipulating our kids and therefore our society.
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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful By Founding Fathers fan on March 22, 2012
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Unbelievable that there are teachers who disdain American exceptionalism!
How do they think we've become the premier nation on the planet? Inventions like cars, planes, the telephone, the list goes on. We ARE exceptional.
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10 of 15 people found the following review helpful By Conservative libertarian on January 10, 2012
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(Note much of my review is based on the comment section.) Now that I have had some time to sit and read the book I see that the author provides the name of the lesson or lesson plan, the organization or persons responsible for creating the plan, the schools or school districts where the plan is taught and even some quotes from the individual teachers who have used the plans/propaganda. I have not read yet where he claims any of the individual propaganda plans are in all or even the majority of public schools. Can anyone accurately refute one single fact from the book??? Denial can be a horrible thing! Do you who despise the book claim that the numerous examples he gives are not accurate or is it just that you are o.k. with propaganda as long as it comes from the left? Can anyone put their ideology aside for just one freaking minute and look at the facts and agree that propaganda and social engineering with tax payer's dollars against the will of the mass majority is simply WRONG. Are we so ate up with ignorance and hate that we can't simply agree that promoting Unions to Preschoolers is just WRONG even if it happens to conflict with ones ideology? (Just one of many available examples from the book).

I defend my profession where it is defendable and I admit to its flaws and errors. I make every effort to fix that which is wrong instead of digging in my heals and ignorantly defending it. The refusal of those in academia to acknowledge the flaws and problems in the public school system is the problem. The proper role of the public education system is to HELP educate children not indoctrinate them.

If you enjoyed this book you should read Public Education Against America by Marlin Maddoux.Public Education Against America
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