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A Short Angry History of Modern Schooling by John Taylor Gatto

Radical Personal Finance

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Real School Reform Would Overcome a Powerful Form of Mental Conditioning

Real school reform would have to overthrow a powerful form of mental conditioning which has taken a century to implant. To one degree or another, all of us have been indoctrinated in a variety of ways to believe that the American experiment which promised ordinary people sovereignty over their own lives was wrongheaded and childish. After all, why should hopelessly ignorant people be allowed to make decisions, even intimate personal ones like how to raise their children? Certified experts are available who know vastly more than about everything and anything.

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