Why Children? Children have been less exposed than their parents to the forces of propaganda, therefore there is less for them to unlearn.
Because "We have become a nation of children" (John Taylor Gatto, author) Child Leadership exists to provide solutions to the current leadership void crisis facing our country. Recognizing the void in leadership training for kids, recognizing the void in comprehensive leadership training for kids of all ages, who have unwittingly been suppressed in their leadership capabilities by succumbing to crafty marketing and spin of public relations firms.
While the focus is to help educate children while they are still very young, as John Taylor Gatto has stated: "We have become a nation of children." Therefore, this organization exists for anyone who acknowleges a need for better leadership training in our society and is humble enough to admit that the premise of the above referenced quote is true - only when we admit we have become the equivilent of children on an intellectual level and agree on where we have collectively been wrong, will be be able to begin to objectivel gather the correct knowledge we need to make the tough decisions to put us back on course. Anyone who has ever worked with a group of young children will find it difficult to deny that children seem to be born with an inherent sense of right and wrong and empathy in their fellow human beings, even the ability to discern justice and innocence. Sadly, this is drummed out of them by our society and culture, and when the need to rebel kicks in, most children are steered into siding with the mob perspective rather than principles based on truth. It is essential for children to learn about the forces that seek to deceive them at an early age, for propagandists find that teenage rebellion is an effective tool for reafirming and establishing propaganda, and take advantage of the fact that many in this age group are easily impressionable. Propaganda is a highly developed science, one that has never fully been acknowledged in its effects in molding, influencing and shaping the beliefs and opinions of nearly everyone alive today. This is also true for their parents and grandparents, often going several generations back. Although their parents and older adults certainly get wiser to the ploys of propaganda as they age, often times it is too late and they are too firmly entrenched in their careers and trying to make a living to do anything to change their current situation. Although media and school curriculum have largely targeted children, the younger children have yet to be largely affected by propaganda on a large scale basis.
