In these schools Kynes presented a curriculum that suited the planetologist's ecological ambitions. He taught about trees, grass, rivers, lakes, snow, dune plantings and water conservation. Kynes supported the harsh disciplines of the sietch and the strong authoritarian rate of die Naibs The "subversion" dreamed of by Kynek and the Fremen of his time was not the political fall of the Harfconnens but the conquest of a hostile, unforgiving desert by the civilizing influence of ecoJogosocial change Had Kynes' plan had the time to unfold, perhaps the paradise he envisioned would have emerged But he could not foresee the changes to be wrought by the Atreides The early years of Atreides rule under Paul Mnad'Dib were disastrous for the Fremen and their culture, Paul diverted their strength to the fighting of his interstellar religious wars. He taught his Fremen to be soldiers in a virtually endless campaign of conquest in the same of his new religion. Millions died, and the entire Fremen culture turned from tribal sarvival-onentatiOB to a militaristic, politicized destructon-orientation Where once sietch schools taught how to make fabrics from spice fiber, Paul's yousg Fremen learned about interstellar assault tactics in the Arrakeen War College The second major destructive change brought about by the revered Paul Atreides was the growth of isolated individualism as a socially accepted value Sietch discipline was all but forgotten as towns and cities grew Water resources increased, but people soon became selfish in their approach to life In a short fifteen years Paul and Alia were able to bleed the Fremen of their courageous young men and women, while on the home front Atreides policies made Fremen culture soft, dependent, wasteful, and impotent Paul's Fremen, without whom he would never have become emperor, were being systematically destroyed through an educational policy that cut the youth off from their cultural roots The destruction of the Fremen begun by Paul and continued by Alia was completed by Leto II Leto imposed severely restrictive educational policies throughout his empire He emphasized learning only fhe agricultural skills needed in his village-focused pastoral empire To preserve his empire he cut communications, virtually eliminated travel, and suppressed and eliminated the technical classes m all but the most essential areas, hoping to provide a feudal peace He was successful, and much accumulated knowledge, such as that stored in the library of the Arrakeen War College, was.