His Indolence Speaks

I was reading a post by Dr. Sanity about modern "education" versus "indoctrination" today and was struck by a particularly loathed turn of phrase ("politically correct") associated with a particularly early date (1964) in a particularly heinous (here meaning: brutally honest) quote, to whit:

This is the idea where we drop subject matter and we drop Carnegie Unites (grading from A-F) and we just let students find their way, keeping them in school until they manifest the politically correct attitudes. You see, one of the effects of self-esteem (Values Clarification) programs is that you are no longer obliged to tell the truth if you don’t feel like it. You don’t have to tell the truth because if the truth you have to tell is about your own failure then your self-esteem will go down and that is unthinkable.”- Dr. William Coulson, explaining Outcome Based Education (OBE)-1964

Like, wow, man. I was about to start first grade. This could explain a lot.