The underground history of u.s. education
Posted by Chuck on 2026-June-2 08:14:38, Tuesday|
Schools are lies and disinformation in origins and method says John Taylor Gatto, 3-time NYC teacher of the year! Quotes from two places. One, from: Full text of "John Taylor Gatto The Underground History Of American Education Book" (see bottom for link) My comment: i noted him specifying that u.s. schooling is egyptian in origins in this book, i noted, skimming the full text of the book, while later (?) he specifies the prussian method as the origins, or at least the principle tact of u.s. schooling. (Quick, what did i get wrong?) Methinks he is merely seeking to provoke thought and challenge! Ah, the abilities of great teachers!! Excerpt: "In the first year of the last decade of the twentieth century during my thirtieth year as a school teacher in Community School District 3, Manhattan, after teaching in all five secondary schools in the district, crossing swords with one professional administration after another as they strove to rid themselves of me, after having my license suspended twice for insubordination and terminated covertly once while I was on medical leave of absence, after the City University of New York borrowed me for a five-year stint as a lecturer in the Education Department (and the faculty rating handbook published by the Student Council gave me the highest ratings in the department my last three years), after planning and bringing about the most successful permanent school fund-raiser in New York City history, after placing a single eighth-grade class into 30,000 hours of volunteer community service, after organizing and financing a student-run food cooperative, after securing over a thousand apprenticeships, directing the collection of tens of thousands of books for the construction of private student libraries, after producing four talking job dictionaries for the blind, writing two original student musicals, and launching an armada of other initiatives to reintegrate students within a larger human reality, I quit. "I was New York State Teacher of the Year when it happened. An accumulation of disgust and frustration which grew too heavy to be borne finally did me in. To test my resolve I sent a short essay to The Wall Street Journal titled "I Quit, I Think.'' In it I explained my reasons for deciding to wrap it up, even though I had no savings and not the slightest idea what else I might do in my mid-fifties to pay the rent." ===== The Underground History of American Education by John Taylor Gatto opens with a provocative claim: mass public schooling in America was never designed to educate. It was engineered to produce manageable citizens in a managed economy. Gatto, a former New York State Teacher of the Year, draws upon his experience and years of archival research to argue that the American school system evolved not from democratic impulses but from a desire to impose order, compliance, and a fixed social hierarchy. He reveals how the schooling model, imported from Prussia, serves corporate and political elites by conditioning young minds to a life of obedience. source: https://dukereportbooks.com/books/the-underground-history-of-american-education-volume-i-an-intimate-investigation-into-the-prison-of-modern-schooling/ [@nonymouse] [Guardster] [Proxify] [Anonimisierungsdienst] |
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