The Underground History of American Education by John Taylor Gatto

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John Taylor Gatto wrote The Underground History of American Education. He says dumb people don't exist in sufficient numbers to warrant the millions devoted to tending them. "The mass dumbness, which justifies official schooling first had to be dreamed of," he writes.

Have you ever felt you had more life experience and talent than your job requires or even allows you to use? Today I've invited Soren Kaplan to the show to talk about how you can better tap into that experience yourself, and also in the people around you. I've long believed that what we know about other people is less valuable than what we don't know. That there's an enormous amount of potential under the surface. What's not on someone's resume, what's not in their current job title, and our ability to mine that experience in ourselves and in other people is, Kaplan believes, a predictor of our success. First we had IQ, then we had emotional intelligence, or EQ. This is XQ, Experiential Intelligence.

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