Technocrats like Gates are advancing thanks to 'advocacy philanthropy' that funnels donations to restructure government and activities. More specifically, it targets and manipulates how public funds are spent. Gates is not a Communist or a Fascist - he is a Technocrat!
To the Technocrat mind, scientific social engineering is comprehensive and must also extend to the very thoughts you receive and retain in your brain. Like the famously flawed 'no-fly' list used to catch terrorists, a future 'no-knowledge' list will trap dangerous thinkers.
After admitting to the mess it made with Common Core State Standards, Gates is moving on with a brand new experiment to reform education in America. Gates, a consummate Technocrat, wants "to see faster and lasting change in student achievement."
Technocracy is about surveillance and data mining in order to fully enable the social engineering of the entire society. The more data they have, the easier it becomes to manipulate people into behaviors that they never would have chosen except that they are crassly 'engineered'.
Common Core Education Standards were created by non-governmental organizations and yet citizens have never been able to regain control. These NGOs did not have education expertise, and had no mandate from national, state or local governments to butt in to public affairs - they just did it!
You might expect that this new trend is starting in California, using robots to teach little Johnny about values and human nature. The early Technocrats considered education to be nothing more than human conditioning. To those who understand the onslaught of Technocracy around the world, it is not a mystery that modern education is exactly that: human conditioning.
Some parents are happy to have their kids tracked every inch of their school day, but the students are being conditioned to accept comprehensive surveillance as normal. This is a Technocracy scheme that may have no concrete reason for its justification.
Education is a core element of implementing Sustainable Development, aka Technocracy. It requires a system of human conditioning on a global scale. Technocrats do not value individual talent and abilities, but only the ability to fit into the larger global good.
The barbarians have finally broken down the school doors and are now plundering knowledge. Books are their target. Banning them is the goal.
The United Nations Technocrats says that educated people consume a disproportionate amount of resources, and are therefore unsustainable by definition. Long live stupidity and ignorance.