{"id":402297,"date":"2010-03-05T09:43:57","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T14:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=24062"},"modified":"2010-03-05T09:43:57","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T14:43:57","slug":"john-taylor-gatto-%e2%80%93-the-underground-history-of-american-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/402297","title":{"rendered":"John Taylor Gatto \u2013 The Underground History of American Education"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this clip the former New York State and New York City Teacher of the Year reviews the epigraphs from the chapters of his book, The Underground History<\/a> of American Education<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been reading the book (a heavy 388 pg. textbook), and find his writing much more exciting than his speaking.<\/p>\n

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The summary for Chapter Two (An Angry Look At Modern Schooling) reads:<\/p>\n

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The secret of American schooling is that it doesn\u2019t teach the way children learn and it isn\u2019t supposed to.\u00a0 It took seven years of reading and reflection to finally figure out that mass schooling of the young by force was a creation of the four great coal powers of the nineteenth century.\u00a0 Nearly one hundred years after the investiture of forced schooling into the U.S., on April 11, 1922, Max Mason, president of the Rockefeller Foundation, annunced to insiders that a comprehensive national program was underway to allow, in Mason\u2019s words, \u201cthe control of human behavior.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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