By Douglas Andrews, Patriot Post - Buried on page 45 of Jimmy Carter’s White House Diary is this ominous little entry: Met with the leaders of the NEA [National Education Association]. They are quite interested in having a separate education department formed. If we can work out some independent agency just for education where the teachers don’t dominate it, then I would favor the idea... Oh, we’ll just bet the NEA was interested in a separate education department. Until then, the vital task of indoctrinating our children had been relegated to merely coequal status within the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.