Cloning of the American Mind

"Cloning of the American Mind: Eradicating Morality through Education" is one of the best books I have ever read. The book discusses, in detail, the dark side of public education and the role of psychiatry and psychology have had in perverting education.Having worked for about 3 years as a substitute teacher, in two very different school systems, I witnessed firsthand some of what the book discusses. To an extent, I can also confirm the claims the book makes concerning psychology, as I have an advanced degree in the subject (MA, general psychology).This is definitely a book every parent, teacher, and anyone involved with public education should read.

I find this book to be extraordinary and informative for every person no matter his or her age. This book has opened my heart and mind to the probable causation of our kid's dismay and drug addition to antidepressants, and possibly why the majority of our teaching staff in the American school system have been allowed to become legal drug dealers to our children. To the reader I say; what if every parent would themselves become a "Change Agent Extraordinaire", then what possible construed human wind could come alone to up root our children's mind and heart. This book advocates the death of parental ignorance. It seems to be a plea for all of us to awaken to the reality that has happened to our children and many of their unconsious teachers. Provocateurs of Change, as illustrated in this book, do not have to be just the masters of demoniztion techniques; they could become skilled concerned parents. This book gives explicit instructions on how you as a parent or educator can learn and practice the same skills of a covert and overt Provocateur of the new millennium. A person who is able to affect our child from the day their schooling begins. I congratulate the inspired and informed efforts of Ms. Eakman. Blessed is she who assists us with the awakening of our brilliant children. This book outlines how the dark shroud of outbased education possess the mind of all who moves through our present 21-century educational system. It is a book to read, ingest, practice and become skillful from its content. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you...

Mrs. Eakman's book is an excellent overview of various psychological schools of thought that have done more than almost any other discipline to adversely effect the modern age. As Mrs. Eakman points out, it is no accident that psychology and politics have come together in order to discover ways to manipulate attitudes, beliefs, and behaviours on a mass scale. While her book is meant to describe the ways in which psychological based curriculum, coupled with electronic data retrieval systems on the part of the State have created psychological profiling and attitude readjustment programs for all school-aged children, her book really out to be read as an expose of more sinister agendas and programs undertaken by governments in this century. The most interesting sections of the book are the ones that connect the development of 19th century materialist atheistic psychologies and 20th century totalitarian politics: the career paths of Nazi and Soviet psychologists crossing with that of such influential Foundations as the Ford and Carnegie Foundations, together with psychological programs emerging out of the Intelligence community after the War, is particulary disturbing. Mrs. Eakman connects the dots, pointing out how a particular person started off in Intelligence, made his way into academia, only to find his way to the corporate world or the media. The only draw back of her book is the absence in many places of detailed footnotes and citing of sources. However, for anyone who has actually read Kurt Lewin or Frankfurt School luminaries, it isn't hard to believe her claims. Additionally, Mrs. Eakman sometimes confuses personages and history: when refering to Dr. Albert Hoffman, the Swiss chemist who developed LSD, she claims he later became a counterculture icon known as Albert 'Abbie' Hoffman -- almost suggesting that Abbie Hoffman of the Sixties and Dr. Albert Hoffman are one and the same. She is also out of her element when discussing philosophers and leading intellectuals. At one point she claims that in Bertrand Russell in his writings about 'a certain educator, Johann Fichte' -- not realizing that Fichte was a Neo-Kantian German philosopher of the earlier 19th century. There are other snafus like these here and there but these can be easily forgiven in light of her insightful analyses and herioc overview of 20th century psychology. To some, Mrs. Eakman's book may sound like 'wacky' conspiracy theories. However, there are a number of so-called mainstream books and publications that have made the same accusations that Mrs. Eakman does and have provided histories of psychological warfare. For the skeptical, try reading Christopher Simpson's book -- published by Oxford Press.

I certainly agree with all the above reviews, but wanted to add one more bit of information. One of the best parts of the book is her discussion on how parent/teacher meetings can be manipulated so that parents' concerns that are outside the schools interests are not allowed to have impact in a meeting. Eakman goes point by point on how they do it AND how you can speak so as to not be isolated in a meeting. GREAT stuff for any parent trying to work within the system!