* 1895: Rockefeller endowed the University of Chicago at which John Dewey served as head of the combined departments of philosophy, psychology and pedagogy. Rockefeller also funded a laboratory for Dewey to study psychological principles and experimental techniques of learning.

    * 1896-1920: "A small group of industrialists and financiers, together with their private charitable foundations, subsidized university chairs, university researchers, and school administrators, and spent more money on forced schooling than the government itself did in this laissez-faire fashion a system of modern schooling was constructed without public participation." (Gatto, John Taylor, The Underground History of American Education)

    * 1905: The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (CFAT) was founded to define what teaching should be

      1913: Rockefeller Foundation set up the predecessor to the General Education Board. This was to further the Foundation's stated goal of "social control". Director of Charity Frederick Gates wrote, "In our dream, we have limitless resources, and the people yield themselves with perfect docility to our molding hand. The present educational conventions fade from our minds; and, unhampered by tradition, we work our own good will upon a grateful and responsive folk. We shall not try to make these people or any of their children into philosophers or men of learning or science. . ."

    * 1917: By this year, Gatto says, "the major administrative jobs in American schooling were under the control of "the Education Trust": representatives of Rockefeller, Carnegie, Harvard, Stanford, University of Chicago, and the National Education Association. The chief end, wrote Benjamin Kidd, was to "impose on the young the ideal of subordination." Gatto called Andrew Carnegie, J.P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, and Henry Ford "The Four Architects of Modern Forced Schooling" who thought that modern industry needed "workers who know nothing".

    * 1921: Carnegie founded The Psychological Corporation, with J. McKeen Cattell as president. Cattell wrote, "Whatever else people have thought over the years that the various Carnegie organizations were contributing to education, their mission, as stated, has been "to promote the extension of applied psychology." Eakman, Beverly, The Cloning of the American Mind

    * 1925: Rockefeller Foundation set up The International Bureau of Education, formerly known as The Institute Jean-Jacques Rousseau, which later became part of UNESCO.

    * 1933: Rockefeller Foundation began a comprehensive national program to develop technology for "the control of human behavior". Public education would figure prominently in the design.

    * 1933-1941: the Carnegie Corporation funded the Eight-Year Study that laid the groundwork for many of the education "reforms" and innovations we are now suffering from.

    * 1944: Carnegie Corporation funded with $250,000 a study of problems of southern black Americans. A Carnegie committee reviewed applicants to perform the research, and selected Swedish socialist economist Dr. Gunnar Myrdal. He wrote "An American Dilemma", which became very influential in subsequent racial integration actions. Myrdal said Americans had a "nearly fetishistic cult of the Constitution."

    * 1946: Carnegie Corporation funded the Educational Testing Service of Princeton, New Jersey, which controls most of the required tests of educational performance.

    * 1947: Rockefeller Foundation funded the creation of the Tavistock Institute for Human Relations, which joined with Kurt Lewin's Research Center for Group Dynamics at the University of Michigan. They created group and individual programming techniques now used in educational and other social settings