Quist: Liberals seek ‘worldwide education system’ to push ‘left-wing propaganda’
Tuesday, March 30, 2010 at 1:15 pm
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Photo: Quist for Congress
Republican congressional candidate Allen Quist’s ideas about education are anything but conventional: a school curriculum he wrote concludes that humans and dinosaurs likely co-existed, uses the Vikings to disprove global warming, and says God is the source of all law. But on Phyllis Schlafly’s radio program this weekend, Quist’s criticisms were reserved for liberals, who, he says, want to rewrite the Constitution “start to finish” and establish a “worldwide education system” that teaches, among other topics, “global warming nonsense.”
Schlafly and Quist, who’s seeking the Republican nomination to face off with U.S. Rep. Tim Walz in the First Congressional District, railed against education standards that include “internationalism” and favorable views of the United Nations. During the hourlong program, the pair blamed liberals for imposing education standards they see as an attempt to undermine the Constitution in the minds of students.
“It’s so disturbing… these bad liberal ideas,” said Schlafly. “About how they want to rewrite the Constitution. Liberals don’t like the Constitution, really. They would like to rewrite it according to their ideology.”
“You are absolutely correct they want to rewrite it from start to finish,” Quist responded. “That’s right.”
(It’s not the first time Quist has targeted liberals. In January, he said that terrorism “is not the big battle. The big battle is in D.C. with the radicals” like President Barack Obama and Tim Walz.)
“We are looking at the globalist agenda in terms of how it is going to run a worldwide education system,” he said. “If the student believes in all the global warming nonsense and the pantheist view of the environment and so on… If the student has swallowed all that left-wing propaganda, they are going to be at an advantage” in standardized testing.
“The tests have been corrupted and the textbooks have been corrupted and we need to get back to a knowledge based pro-American system and we’ve got a lot of work to do to get there,” said Quist.
Quist and his organization, Edwatch, say they have the answer to the left-wing agenda: a curriculum of its own. Quist’s curriculum consists of modules called C-Mods, which are “designed to supplement and/or correct current textbooks.” (Quist’s curriculum experience was sought out last year by Texas State Board of Education chair Don McElroy, who wanted him to be on the state’s panel of experts; the rest of the board rejected Quist’s inclusion.)
In Unit Two of Quist’s curriculum, “Exciting New Discoveries in Ancient History, Archeology, and Geography,” he asks, “Did dinosaurs and people live at the same time, and why do so many recently discovered ancient art works accurately picture dinosaurs?” The answer, according to Quist is: “Substantial evidence is emerging which suggests that peoples [sic] and dinosaurs actually lived at the same time.”
A discussion question for students: “How should we interpret the numerous references in ancient literature to dinosaurs (called “dragons” before 1850 AD), and what are the creatures described in Job chapters 40-41?”
In a section on “Vikings in Greenland,” Quist makes the case that accepted science on global warming is false, using the Viking expeditions as evidence.
The curriculum says that “individual rights to life and liberty were a part of the natural law created by God” and that “Our forefathers recognized that the fundamental human rights, such as life, liberty and property, are not granted by government; they have been granted by God. The role of government, then, is to protect these God-given rights.”
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Comment posted March 30, 2010 @ 4:00 pm
What Quist didn’t mention (and I’m not sure why he didn’t bring it up) is that if you don’t do well with the World Wide Educational System, you are led off to one of the Internment Camps and have to appear before a Death Panel.
Unless you can produce a polaroid of your great-great-great-great grandfather standing next to a dinosaur.
Comment posted March 30, 2010 @ 5:03 pm
…must not be using the latest uncorrupted textbooks from Texas…
Comment posted March 30, 2010 @ 6:12 pm
So, he doesn’t want the schools teaching “global warming nonsense” but he’s fine with the rest of the nonsense he dreams up? Oh yeah, my grandpa had a dinosaur ranch. And God used to come to dinner with him every Sunday and they’d sit around and chew tobacco. Gramps said God could spit, like, really REALLY far. And it’s EDUCATION that has ruined all that, dammit!!
Comment posted March 30, 2010 @ 6:41 pm
Seeking? We’ve had leftist indoctrination schools for decades.
Comment posted March 30, 2010 @ 7:30 pm
Interesting. Members of the groups responsible for corrupting our textbooks, making a knowledge based system unattainable, hold forth a fiction-based curriculum as an example of improvement.
Comment posted March 30, 2010 @ 9:14 pm
Republicans are now in “jump-the-shark” mode. Remember what happened when Joseph McCarthy jumped the shark? A large group of people not paying attention stood up and said “enough of your lies and bullying”. It took forever, but it finally happened.
The more ridiculous their lies, the harder their ultimate fall. Sooner or later, Americans will say “enough of your lies and bullying”.
Comment posted March 30, 2010 @ 10:24 pm
Lies like this? “We’ve had leftist indoctrination schools for decades”
Comment posted March 30, 2010 @ 11:06 pm
“Liberals don’t like the Constitution, really. They would like to rewrite it according to their ideology.”
Projection much?
Comment posted March 31, 2010 @ 8:04 am
I am not sure how Quist is reading the Constitution. I would like to believe that most of us here in Minnesota have enough common sense to understand what the constitution says, and know how to apply that correctly and well. This guy’s statements are not only untrue – but so far off you can most assuredly expect him to say “the sky is falling”. Man, I sure wish people would stand up to these idiots and try them on their cult like rhetoric.
It almost seem that people like Quist do nothing themselves to educate and inform themselves. It takes a little work to do that, and it takes a good amount of mental foundation. When I see what Quist, Bachmann and others are using for a foundation to spread their lyes, I want to stop that money Pewlenty wanted for a new prison and repurpose it for an insane asylum for these people.
Comment posted March 31, 2010 @ 10:43 am
I actually taught social studies for 33 years, including the Constitution, and I always used the original document because I thought that it was important that my students actually learned what is/is not in the Constitution.
Before I received my license to teach, I had to take a test in the subjects I would receive certification in to show that I understood the content in each subject.
Based on his comments, it’s obvious to me that Quist’s background is NOT in the field of education.
Comment posted March 31, 2010 @ 6:40 pm
“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Comment posted March 31, 2010 @ 9:12 pm
What exactly is “independent” about this article or the comments on it? Quist may be a goof. He may even be a dangerous goof. But the author of this article and the authors of the comments thereto are spouting the party line while calling themselves “independent.” What does that make them?
Comment posted March 31, 2010 @ 10:52 pm
Sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity define Obama to a T. Martin Luther King Jr., a Republican, called it so many years ago. Thanks Truth for reminding us.
Comment posted March 31, 2010 @ 11:45 pm
Yes Jimmy, King was a Republican. And Reagan won election on the Democratic ticket. And George Washington was the British rime Minister.
Comment posted April 1, 2010 @ 9:29 am
Mr. Quist has also written that the First Amendment does not apply to state governments. I’m sure, then he would have no objection to the State of Minnesota locking him up for expressing his opinions.
Comment posted April 1, 2010 @ 11:07 am
BTW, Jimmy, if you are reduced to defending a sexually-obsessed (not my description!) lunatic like Allen Quist, you might as well tattoo “Do Not Take Me Seriously” on your forehead.
Comment posted April 1, 2010 @ 1:18 pm
given how much misinformation Mr. Quist seems to believe about liberals, perhaps he ought actually talk to some before he opines about what we believe – about the Constitution, about anything at all.
Better that than the demonic plots that arise solely out of his brain, unconnected to reality, actual liberals
Comment posted April 5, 2010 @ 9:24 am
Liberals are very easy to understand. They are simply defined as those that want to take 5hit that doesn’t belong to them.
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