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A Short Angry History of Modern Schooling by John Taylor Gatto

Radical Personal Finance

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The Great Dangan of Education

By 1971 psychologists in the pay of government and private foundations were justifying surreptitious data gathering from children. In this laissez-faire fashion a system of modern schooling was constructed without public participation. If you want to know the motives of this project you need only read the first public mission statement of Rockefeller's General Education Board that was printed in its first report to Wellwishers issued in 1996. Can you believe people actually wrote this and printed it? We shall not try to make these people or any of their children into philosophers or men of learning or men of science. The task is simple. We will organize children and teach them in a perfect way that things their fathers and mothers

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