2004-08-02
COMPUSORY EDUCATION
Rote learning makes good automatons | That's what I get from John Taylor Gatto's book Underground: A History of American Education | The book [online as a e-book, incidentally] posits that it wasn't the benighted educators like John Dewey who championed the USA's school system, but the Rockerfellers, the Carnegies, the Mellons and others from the Robber Baron era | Their purpose served them well |
Had this not such a strong ring of truth to it, I might dismiss it as paranoid thinking, and it is | But just because we're paranoid doesn't mean it isn't happening |
My question then, is, assuming the premise is a given, and now that we know about it, how do we turn it around? I sure don't want to rely on home-schooling and "religious" education centers now that I know that the teeming masses have been so throughly indoctrinated as to be, themselves, unlearned |
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Rote learning makes good automatons | That's what I get from John Taylor Gatto's book Underground: A History of American Education | The book [online as a e-book, incidentally] posits that it wasn't the benighted educators like John Dewey who championed the USA's school system, but the Rockerfellers, the Carnegies, the Mellons and others from the Robber Baron era | Their purpose served them well |
Had this not such a strong ring of truth to it, I might dismiss it as paranoid thinking, and it is | But just because we're paranoid doesn't mean it isn't happening |
My question then, is, assuming the premise is a given, and now that we know about it, how do we turn it around? I sure don't want to rely on home-schooling and "religious" education centers now that I know that the teeming masses have been so throughly indoctrinated as to be, themselves, unlearned |
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