|  | | Firm Foundation, 2006. | | | | “The power of the individual large foundation is enormous. It can exercise various forms of patronage which carry with them elements of thought control. It can exert immense influence on educational institutions, upon the educational processes and upon educators. It can materially predetermine the development of social and political concepts and courses of action through the process of granting and withholding foundation awards upon a selective basis and by designing and promulgating projects which propel researchers in selected directions. It can play a powerful part in the determination of academic opinion and through this thought leadership, materially influence public opinion….It has ramifications in almost every phase of research and education, highly undesirable, whether the net result of its operations is benign or not….The aggregate thought control power of this foundation and foundation-supported bureaucracy can hardly be exaggerated. A system has thus arisen….which gives enormous power to a relatively small group of individuals….It is a system which is antithetical to American principles.”(page 17)
- Special Committee to Investigate Tax-Exempt Foundations and comparable organizations-House Resolution 217, 83rd Congress, 1st Session. Filed with the House of Representatives 83rd Congress, 2nd Session, as Union Calendar N. 926 Report N. 2681."Here we wish simply to emphasize that in our generation efforts are being made to arrange and control human relationships more consciously, more deliberately, and, it is to be hoped, more responsibly than during the last century. An interdependent world is being forced to an awareness of the limitations of individual freedom and personal choice."
-Pendleton Herring, Social Science Research Council, Reece Committee Report, p.126
“Prevailing cultural norms should not be viewed as 'natural' or 'inevitable'. Rather, cultural norms- including institutions, practices, and beliefs- should be investigated for their roots in domination and their implications for liberation.”
-Antonio Gramsci | |
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