I made this compilation of various
audio and video clips featuring John Taylor Gatto in an attempt to
capture what I think is the spirit behind his work. It's easy to see how
the spark of life can be squelched in the schooling system. Easily
managed people make for an easy day for the elite of society.
Incomplete, predictable people are the products of forced schooling.
Ironically, we owe a great deal of credit for building our current
society and schooling system to individuals who were dropouts. Some of
these elites were John D. Rockefeller Sr. (high school dropout), Andrew
Carnegie (elementary school dropout) and others.
To find out more about the true purpose behind schooling, be sure to
check out John Taylor Gatto's books: Dumbing us Down, The Underground
History of American Education, and his most recent, Weapons of Mass
Instruction.
