
A Short Angry History of Modern Schooling by John Taylor Gatto
Radical Personal Finance
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The Dangan - The New School System
The introduction of the American school into the Orient has broken up 40 centuries of tradition. The Chinese Revolution was Western inspired and Western financed just as the Russian Revolution soon was to be. It placed that nation in a favorable state of disintegration for laboratory testing of pedagogical mind alteration technology. Out of this ferment rose a Chinese tracking practice built on the ancient habit of character references modernized and bureaucratized. Today nobody works in China without a Dangan, which is a continuous lifelong personnel file exposing a student's intimate history from birth through schooling and then through life.
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