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Show in n n "TP i rliUlSS! n tt opic Loon! UAW Rflsfit The Bountiful Region of the Utah Association of Women will present a program on the destructive forces of basic "Humanism" June 26 at 7 p.m. at the Davis County Library, Lib-rary, South Branch. THE PROGRAM will consist con-sist of short talks presented by well-informed chapter members mem-bers on various aspects of "Humanism." Also, Julie Wilson, Bountiful Bounti-ful South Region president, will discuss their region's study of learning if humanism is influencing the local schools. The talks will be followed fol-lowed by small discussion groups. The public is welcome to attend. A SECOND part of this program prog-ram will be presented on July 17 at the library. Pat Mitchell of the state task force on Humamism will discuss how to recognize and work to eliminate elimin-ate this destructive force in education of our children. Many people are completely unacquainted and unaware of what Humanism is and what a pgwerful influence it has upon our society, particularly in education. THE HUMANIST Manifesto Manifes-to II, 1973 state sits beliefs as "We fine insufficient evidence for belief in the existence of a supernatural God. . . as non-theists, non-theists, we begin with humans not God, nature not deity, .we can discover no divine purpose or providence for the human species. . .humans are responsible for what we are or will become. Moral values derive de-rive their source from human experience. Ethics is autonomous auton-omous and situational." The philosophy includes the approval of abortion, free love, premarital sex, homosexuality, homose-xuality, euthanasia and suicide. ACCORDING TO Onalee McGraw, education consultant consul-tant to the Heritage Foundation Founda-tion in Washington, D.C., "Humanistic education is the latest manifestation of the so-called so-called progressive life adjustment adjust-ment philosophy that has dominated our schoni. teacher education f0rd a; Humanistic education all emphasis on the if cia and psychologic; instead of on the lew basic skills. edrn,"8 "That is to say . education purports to S young how to order ihei ' lives in terms of ethical d' sion-making and to dev. their own autonomous v systems." ' THIS HUMANISTIC ph d0eSvy'andt1SCaUSI" aecay and the precipitous tenoration of learnings , ment m basic skills is h translated into school cur lum through "values clarif lion' "behavior modif tion, moral ecucation" "human development" Cl culum programs and i tbooks written by many Wl inent educators and pSyc logists who are humanists We invite anyone inters including parents, educat, high school and collew students to take this oppon ity to learn how subtle widespread humanism is |
