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Walking Targets       Cloning of the American Mind

Walking Targets - Reviews

“...In Walking Targets, B. K. Eakman sounds the alarm on psychology-based programs in schools, and on the more general psychology-based mindset that treats every individual quirk as a classifiable mental illness demanding medication.”

“If you want to know who Big Brother is, what he does, and where he lives you need to read Beverly Eakman. She has been exposing behavioral psychology’s covert, attitude- manipulating agenda for more than two decades.  Her current book, Walking Targets is no exception.” 

“Beverly Eakman's new book, Walking Targets, is a detailed and accurate description of the troubling and dangerous state of education in contemporary United States of America.”        

“Walking Targets explores the interests that push the mental health agendas aimed at influencing and reshaping students’ - and society’s — most deeply held values and beliefs. As she describes it, today’s educators are being trained in what are nothing less than brainwashing techniques that erode students’ values and any sense of their own identity. The book exposes the money-driven spread of mental health screening programs, based upon subjective questionnaires that lead to prescriptions for violence-inducing antidepressants or other drugs for those found ‘at risk.’”

“An extremely important new book that should be read by every parent is Walking Targets: How Our Psychologized Classrooms Are Producing a Nation of Sitting Ducks by B. K. Eakman, a former director of the National Education Consortium.  The book describes how the basic technique used to psychologically assess children and their families is essentially a knock-off of marketing and advertising. These techniques are used to predict attitudes, including political reactions—called ‘worldviews’ —and have been used by the Department of Education to collect data on the kids and their families. It’s not about mental health. It’s about political indoctrination, sometimes disguised as ‘career planning.’ The deterioration of the nation’s education system is an open secret, but parents often find themselves defenseless. … Millions of students passed through the pre-1960s education system as healthy, productive young people. Today, they are as likely to be required to take various behavior altering drugs as not. Are you a parent? Read this book!”

“This book is terrific, insightful, provocative, and a must-read for anyone who cares about kids and their education. Bev Eakman sees troubles ahead and tells us how "mental health" devotees are taking kids down a fatal path to thought control.”

“Beverly Eakman has opened doors to truth once again. No one has conducted more thorough research exposing the broad attack on our children than Bev. WALKING TARGETS is a must-read for every parent, educator and public policy analyst.”

“For more than a decade Bev Eakman has been sounding the alarm to warn us that the Education Establishment is stealing the minds of a generation of children in order to create a wrenching transformation of our society. Her books, speeches and articles have chronicled how government-appointed (and self-anointed) child experts have now created the perfect global citizens of tomorrow: anti-property, anti-industry, undiscerning, global-village idiots. Bev Eakman refuses to let them get away with it without a fight.”

“Bev Eakman is simply brilliant. Her new book skewers the educrats, psychotherapists, and politicians who claim to know best for you and your kids. Unlike most of the psychobabble that passes for advice to parents, this book hones in on the real problems with education today. No parent should enter the public school system before arming themselves with WALKING TARGETS first. WALKING TARGETS is the best parent guidebook there is on navigating the public school system. I'm giving a copy to all my children.”

"I just finished reading [your article], 'LOST'. It truly is awesome and so damning!  So much said of such importance and I value every word. It is so disheartening to know you are dead right on all of it. You are a remarkable advocate for children and all Americans."

“I’m afraid you won't ever have the luxury of throwing in the towel. You are a leader, Beverly. A leader must consider how what they do will affect the people watching them. An old saying is "Noblesse oblige." You may not technically be nobility, but figuratively, you are. Thank you for all the great books, articles.”

“Beverly Eakman astutely chronicles the psychological abuse taking place in the public-school classroom with impeccable credentials and incontrovertible conclusions. A compilation of her best speeches and articles, WALKING TARGETS points to the ominous threat of government-controlled childrearing, the use of pseudo-education under the guise of mental health and lifelong learning as three means of controlling the beliefs of the population. This book sounds another warning to traditionalists, conservatives and Christians that they need to vacate the state-run public school system for the safe sanctuary of private, Christian and home schools.”

“The shenanigans described by Beverly Eakman in WALKING TARGETS comprise a devastating indictment of the pernicious partners intentionally sabotaging our education system. She correctly observes that one of the most critical casualties has been our diminished communication skills, compromising the nation’s ability to solve all its other problems.”                                              

“Beverly deserves a Pulitzer. I have only gotten through the Prologue, but already I am stunned—I found myself mentally shouting "Yes, YESSSS!" Beverly has worked long and hard to publicize events that have led up to where we are today. Maybe people who read these articles will start connecting dots backwards, then forward, to today's societal maelstroms. ... This book could be the spur that makes people understand how marketing has been corrupted and now dominates everything. She reveals how behavioral science has twisted what was once legitimately used to sell real products, not policies and propaganda."
Cloning of the American Mind: Eradicating Morality through Education - Reviews

"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 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.” 

“The best expose of psycho-manipulation since Hidden Persuader
I read this as the finest exposé of psycho-sleaze since Vance Packard wrote The Hidden Persuaders.  Cloning is not light reading: it belongs in the study, not on the coffee table or in the bathroom. The author relates in detail what the methods of the Educrats are and what they accomplish. Every honest member of school boards everywhere should study this exposé--and learn the wisdom of rejecting Federal aid for anything. There! Put THAT in my psycho-profile!” 

“One of the best parts of Cloning of the American Mind 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 not be isolated in a meeting. GREAT stuff for any parent trying to work within the system!”

“Part IV of Cloning of the American Mind should be read by anyone who has ever sat on a school committee or is thinking about it. Even more urgently, it should be read by all members of all school boards which are told that some recommendation or another was developed by a teacher or parent-teacher committee.

I participated in two committees like this in our local public school, and found that the whole process was deliberately manipulated to cultivate intended results, while suppressing dissent or discussion.

Eakman warns that such ‘rigged consensus building’ thwarts opposition or original thinking, while enshrining and preserving the status quo. It is a powerful tool for manipulating public opinion in such a way to gain apparent approval for dubious management directions.

These manipulative techniques are both employed with, and taught to, students in ed schools. By the time that someone leaves ed school with administration credentials, they are well-trained to set up the same dangerous practices in the districts where they are employed.” 

“Cloning of the American Mind should be on the ‘must read’ list for anyone wanting to know more about the current sad state of affairs in not only public education but, in society in general. This book is well documented and extremely in-depth.”

“Cloning of the American Mind has excellent insights into the curriculum contents in public education schools today. … Having all this [information] at our fingertips is a whole lot easier than trying to research it from scratch.  It's a book every parent should invest in a copy in… as an educational research resource book…. Read up on all that's happened so far to drag education down to the level it has now become. I can't recommend this book enough. I have read all of Beverly's books and each book is EXCELLENT!”

“Cloning of the American Mind is both prophetic and remedial. In this age of word inflation, superlatives seem inadequate in describing the value of this remarkable treatise. Few people are aware that Columbine HS in Littleton, CO is one of the very first schools to experiment with the dangerous practices exposed in Mrs. Eakman's book. I have official tapes of the debate at Littleton from ca. 1988 where parents who were fearful of their values being undermined by "Outcomes Based Education / Workforce 2000" were simply blown off. By the mid 1990's the illiteracy cartel won, and the rest is history. Cloning of the American Mind anticipates the implosion of such schools, even though it was written about 1 year before the Columbine tragedy. The family is under attack through the schools, and the schools are under attack through a myriad of special interest groups. In particular, an out-of-control psychographics industry is described, whose function is to provide access to our children for such purposes as industrial exploitation, marketing research, political manipulation, coercion of conscience, family meddling, psychological profiling and, perhaps most frightening, profiling the private lives of their families. This is done, of course, at the expense of academic studies, while all the time being labeled as "achievement". The author generously provides an historical and documentary basis for her findings. It is also enjoyable to find an author whose demeanor is engaging and down-to-earth, with reminders of key points gently brought to mind at strategic points in the development. The closing sections provide remedial coaching on how to spot and deal with third-party "agents-of-change" visiting your school board, and how to reverse their horrifying agenda at the local level. Concerned citizens of Dothan, Alabama cited this book to help guide themselves out of a social and educational catastrophe. There are many fine books today chronicling the assault on the family and education. Cloning of the American Mind is comprehensive, exhaustive and indispensable. ...buy it now and take action!”

“Cloning of the American Mind: Eradicating Morality Through Education is a comprehensive indictment on the sinister nature of the modern day education system.

The book begins with the deliberate big brother testing tactics from Pennsylvania. Through the Educational Quality Assessment (EQA), our tax supported public schools have collected personal information via "attitudes, worldviews and opinions" culled from non-educational queries. Forget the fact that student IQs have been sliding downward, let's mold their independent ideas into a programmed state with suggestive questions. Then, repeat those questions through the life of their public education until they yield to the pressure of conformity.

… to expedite the transfer of information among school institutions, a system called SPEEDE/ ExPRESS was implemented. SPEEDE/ExPRESS stands for Standardization of Postsecondary Education Electronic Data Exchange/ Exchange of Permanent Records Electronically for Students. The danger of SPEEDE/ ExPRESS is that it also easily enables the ‘transfer of records among government agencies, corporations and countless other entities.’

…  In addition to students, B.K. Eakman's Cloning of the American Mind also touches on the pressure of conformity applied to teachers.  ‘Thus, teachers of students whose beliefs do not change over time, and who will not use the ‘psychological strands’ provided by the department head in his or her subject area, may be judged ‘ineffective.’ While tenure may protect some teachers for a time, there are other ways to get rid of them- such as giving them students with the worst behavior problems every year.

Through the ‘unified coding system’, students now have a ‘permanent record’ that can be referenced by law enforcement agencies, potential employers and, no doubt, a litany of hackers, creeps and people that go bump in the night. The book explains that this is one short step before DNA microchipping.

Eakman exposes some interesting techniques in use today, such as: opinion molding, consensus building and the science of coercion. She also points the finger at tax exempt foundations; many formed by the Rockefeller dynasty.

The connections are made to a harvesting of molded minds with the vision of a New World Order. Nationalism is treated as a ‘mental illness.’ What ever happened to reading, writing and arithmetic?

This book is not a one sitting read but I can honestly say that no pages are wasted. The information is invaluable particularly if you had no clue (like me) about what is going on today in our schools. It's absolutely dreadful.

However, unlike many books that cry foul but leave no solutions, Bev Eakman lays out a solid plan on how to take back our schools from the `mad scientists.'

Cloning of the American Mind by B.K. Eakman is an extremely important book to add to your reading list.”