where john dewey had been a professor. what is columbia at that time? and what it's columbia teachers college still today? the preeminent teachers college in the united states of america. the marxists arrive with a new theory called critical theory. sound familiar? it's the precursor to critical race theory and critical gender theory. they begin the tj that they began to teach it in the teacher's colleges. which means, when those teachers go out and become heads of their department and other places, that teaching critical theory. what is critical theory, to your point? critical theory premise is to deconstruct, effectively, western christian civilization. it is to criticize all the that lead to the white hero patriarchy capitalist system that must be torn down if we are to advance marxism. they thought, in an economic sense, but it soon became a cultural sense. they knew the bourgeoisie proletariat class warfare wasn't going to fly in the united states of america. instead, are terrible past of racial injustice was more fertile ground. the critical theor

this is a 100 year for over 100 year progressive project, john dewey and f francis willard, chapter 6tie it to current events vate line from critical race theoryry to ant antifa. the ideas that promulgated in places like columbiaan university, have made their ways into first thend classroom and curriculum. but now into our streets, they are breeding a newre claseds of radical leftists activists comes out was not just the universities butju high schoolsst and middle schools and elementary. what i want to do with this book circ quip -- equip parents and grandparents to know the depth of the problem sos the ty can be a part of the solution, and a reorient how they eseducatee their kids first thin how we address the larger system. mark: pete, i have spent a lot of timfie studying this, ima learned a lot from your book. it thi really exposes the under belly of what has been takingn ta place in the classroom. i would strongly encouraged parents and grandparents anddpar everyone who cares about the future of this country to grab a copy of battle for o the american mind, we weren talking befo

big part of research was looking at new republic what john dewey and other athiest progressives were about, they openly talkca abount how importantpr education was toward theirin goal.g they hady t to remove god, they had to remove the freethinking aspect, they believe it is the same condescending view our leadsendi have today, average people, don't need to think about philosophy or politics or economics, just give them a skill, tell them what to think, make them go away, thos ae people become easier to control, idea of a liberal art, a liberated mind, that is what they wanted to get rid of. >> the book, battle for the american mind. at amazon.com or any major bookstore. >> up next, former secretary of state mike pompeo to two important issues, threat of communist china and don the dobb's decision, we'll be right back. (vo) get business internet from verizon, the network businesses rely on. ditch cable and switch to verizon business internet, with fast, reliable solutions, nationwide. find the perfect solution for your business. from the network businesses rely on. every search you m

john dewey no sooner gets done with his work that i researched in columbia university than frankfurt school shows up. pete had a better grasp on that side of things than i did. as a whole, the work was evidential. it would not come together if it hadn't been the time and place and the partnership. >> yes, the progressives had been targeting our youngest minds on their mind from the very beginning. they knew they had to remove the one immovable object inside american civic life and western civilization if their schemes were to catch on. the immovable object was god and faith. the centerpiece of the american classroom since the founding. they had to replace it to keep the indiana jones analogy going, it's like when you're trying to grab a precious artifact but it's on a pressure plate. if you take the artifact off of the pressure plate, the alarm is going to go off. if they did that a hundred years ago, the churches would have revolted. they openly wrote in the new republic and this is the research that david did, they discussed how do we remove god from the classroom? they ultimately

he appointed john admiral dewey the most famous admiral in the country, an admiral who defeated the germans in. manila during the spanish face them down anyway, in manila, the spanish-american war. and so he appointed him. he gave him as his as command ship. you know, usually commanders were battleship ops or something. he gave him the presidential yacht so the germans would have to sink the yacht. you can imagine what that symbol was. and also he did things like cole call the six sailors back to their ships. you know, none. this was public. you know, it was publicly that. but none of this was any there was no, you know, saber rattling, belittling the kaiser or anything and so but what he can do is convince the kaiser. he also backchannels. here's the german ambassador to try to convince kaiser he wasn't bluffing. he had the fleet. they were already in puerto rico go down and the there he is. i'm sorry. and the the germans were disadvantaged. they had long supply lines. they were surrounded an american lake, so to speak, just didn't make any sense. well, what happened is t.r. called in the