"First, though, we must wake up to what our schools really are: laboratories of experimentation on young minds, drill centers for the habits and attitudes that corporate society demands. Mandatory education serves children only incidentally; its real purpose is to turn them into servants. Don't let your own have their childhoods extended, not even for a day. If David Farragut could take command of a captured British warship as a pre-teen, if Thomas Edison could publish a broadsheet at the age of twelve, if Ben Franklin could apprentice himself to a printer at the same age (then put himself through a course of study that would choke a Yale senior today), there's no telling what your own kids could do. After a long life, and thirty years in the public school trenches, I've concluded that genius is as common as dirt. We suppress our genius only because we haven't yet figured out how to manage a population of educated men and women. The solution, I think, is simple and glorious. Let them manage themselves."
"You can be trained from the outside, but only educated from within; one is a habit of memory and reaction, the other a matter of seizing the initiative."
-John Taylor Gatto
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
-Mark Twain
"When you're one step ahead of the crowd, you're a genius. When you're two steps ahead, you're a crackpot."
-Rabbi Shlomo Riskin (1998)
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John Gatto describes in painful detail the real purposes and especially the appalling history of modern compulsory schooling. All about the proposed film on the subject and much more. http://johntaylorgatto.com/hp/frames.htm
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