Seven Cardinal Principles Revisited-1978

Extraordinary document published in ”Today’s Education”, the journal of the National Education Association, September-October 1976 edition. Requests made to the NEA for copies of this document have often been countered with “No such document exists or was ever published.” Fortunately a public school teacher had a copy. Although difficult to read in some parts, it exposes the NEA’s agenda and also that of the top change agents, educators and heads of multinational corporations, including Council on Foreign Relations members. In other words, it exposes the fact that at the top the NEA is in bed with the international corporate sector and, interestingly enough, supports the neoconservative agenda for publicly funded school choice (charter schools). This document also set the official national/international education agenda and included the following Seven Cardinal Principles, a rewriting of the original 1918 Cardinal Principles: (1) Health; (2) Command of Fundamental Processes; (3) Worthy Home Membership; (4) Vocation; (5) Citizenship; (6) Worthy Use of Leisure; and (7) Ethical Character.

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