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A Short Angry History of Modern Schooling by John Taylor Gatto

Radical Personal Finance

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The Teacher Education Project - The Future of American Schooling

The gigantic behavioral teacher education project outlined the teaching reforms to be forced on America after 1967. The document was deliberately kept away from the central political power because of the obvious chance to pervert it if it were handed to the power that controlled the army. According to the project, post-modern schooling will focus on pleasure cultivation and other attitudes and skills compatible with a non-work world. Children will be made to see through school experience that their classmates are so irresponsible and inadequate that they must be controlled and regulated for society's good.

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