The Leipzig Connection

By Paolo Lioni

Book Overview

In the shadows of the Bismarck’s totalitarian Germany in 1875, a little-known medical researcher laid the groundwork for a subject that in modern times was to bring American education to its... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0897390016
• ISBN13: 9780897390019
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Heron Books
• Length: 124 Pages
• Weight: 0.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 4.3" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

BEST Book Ever On this Subject! Eye Opener!

This is one of the most enlightening books on the question we parents have asked so many times, "How did our American educational system get so messed up?" I'd heard so many other theories before (mostly not enough funding for schools) that I wasn't sure this book would hold much truth either. I was completely wrong. Reading this book was the first time I've felt that I truly understand what happened to our once great American educational system. It makes so much sense and it has nothing to do with funding or throwing more money at the current system as it stands. If you're a parent - read it. If you're an educator - you must read it. Though written in 1972, the information with it's names, dates, and history of our educational decline is as pertinent in 2008 as it was then.

Where American Education Went Wrong

Basically, this is a great place to start if you want to understand how American education got so messed up. It's a small book with less than 100 little pages, but it covers all the important people in the early decades, from about 1880 to 1950. The thesis is that all our early educators got their start in Germany, at a famous university there, and acquired a lot of unfortunate tendencies. The book contains many quotations by all the heavy hitters (from Wilhelm Wundt to Rockefeller), with a footnote on almost every page, plus a dozen photographs and a long bibliography. The book definitely has a case to make, but does so in a scholarly way. Here's one of John Dewey's quotations: "The ultimate problem of all education is to coordinate the psychological and social factors." From there it's all downhill. Note that there's no mention of anything academic or scholarly. Note that Dewey could solve this problem to his immense satisfaction and students could still end up ignorant. Which is pretty much what he achieved for us. Don't suppose that these long ago manias have somehow moved on. They have not. In one of the weirdest pairings in history, far-left academics used Rockefeller's guilty millions to fund and shape Teachers College (and many others) with the express purpose of churning out indoctrinated teachers who would then be sent out into the countryside to indoctrinate the young. The beat goes on.

Why this book is a MUST READ

This book tells the true and complete story of what happened to our educational system, and how it was ruined by Rockefeller money through the introduction of psychology (and later psychiatry)into the system. Going right along with this destruction there is another very well documented book titled "World Without Cancer" by G. Edward Griffin (an independent researcher not connected with the authors of The Leipzig Connection), which tells how the Rockefellers turned our MEDICAL educational system into a profit center for themselves---a system which promotes drugs (which they make and sell) and surgery, which necessitates the use of their drugs---and away from other more promising avenues. If you want further documentation on the destructive influence of the Rockefellers read Ida Tarbell's famous book "THE HISTORY OF THE STANDARD OIL COMPANY". Then there's "Why Johnny Can't Tell Right From Wrong" by William K. Kilpatrick and "Dumbing Down Our Kids : Why American Children Feel Good About Themselves but Can't Read, Write, or Add" by Charles J. Sykes, both of which detail the depths to which the Rockefeller financed psychological fiddling of our school curriculums has taken us. But essential to a complete understanding of any of the above is an understanding of the story related in "The Leipzig Connection". It really is a must read.

Acorns, Oaks, Mistletoe and Poison Ivy ..... Consider this

This book is 5 Stars - not because it is a blockbuster, but more in the sense of The Tao Te Ch'ing - it has a basic nourishment simply put and straight. The Leipzig Connection simply traces development of "modern" "progressive" "20th century" "education" theory and practice from basic kernel (acorn) in the Psychology Labs of Late 19th Century Germany, from plant to graft to fully invasive tendrils resulting in the 20th Century culmination of an educational system realizing that a simple classic "Oak" had been subborned into a useless tangle of creepers.Or skip the poetry, just appreciate the elegant clarity and direct purpose of this slim volume.A MUST for EVERY student of education, educator, educational theorist, or intelligent adult.