before 1852 American education consisted
of one-room schoolhouses independent
teachers and students of all ages
attending of their own freewill
curriculums and funding came directly
from local communities without a
federalized bureaucracy ruling over
every facet like today from 1852 to 1918
things changed as the government began
pushing to enforce compulsory schooling
laws all across America
these were coupled with new child labor
laws in an effort to take children off
the farms from under their family's
tutelage and force them into
indoctrination camps under the
government's tutelage these laws were
met with strenuous opposition at every
turn by the US population and unless
there was an incredibly well backed
agenda to make sure such laws passed
they would not have if it was simply a
matter of what the people in individual
states really wanted child labor and
compulsory schooling issues would have
been dropped as soon as they were raised
as Edward Ross stated plans are underway
to replace community family in church
with propaganda education and mass media
people are only little plastic lumps of
human dough and Elwood Cubberley
said each year the child is coming to
belong more to the state and less and
less to the parent in his book public
education in the United States a word
Cubberley wrote at first the laws were
optional later the law was made
statewide but the compulsory period was
short 10 to 12 weeks and the age limits
low 9 to 12 years after this struggle
came to extend the time often little by
little to extend the age limits downward
to 8 and 7 and upwards to 14 15 or 16 to
make the law apply to children attending
private and parochial schools and to
require cooperation from such schools
for the proper handling of cases to
institute state supervision of local
enforcement to connect school attendance
enforcement with the child labor
legislation of the state through a
system of working permits once
federalized mandatory schooling was
employed countrywide
the compulsory attendance of nine to 12
year olds 10 to 12 weeks a year was
incrementally lengthened to the point
that nowadays four-year-olds are
entering preschools and 26 year old
doctors are still being indoctrinated
almost the whole year long ironically
the longer students remain in their
respective institutions the more respect
they are generally given in their field
thus are experts in medicine science
technology philosophy economics politics
etc are generally those who have
received the most government
indoctrination elwood Cubberley wrote
since 1900 and do more to the activity
of persons concerned with social
legislation and those interested in
improving the moral welfare of children
than to educators themselves there has
been a general revision of the
compulsory education laws of our states
and the enactment of much new child
welfare and anti child labor legislation
these laws have brought into the schools
not only the truant and the incorrigible
who under former conditions either left
early or were expelled but also many
children who have no aptitude for book
learning and many children of inferior
mental qualities who do not profit by
ordinary classroom procedures our
schools have come to contain many
children who become a nuisance in the
school and tend to demoralize school
procedure at the turn of the 20th
century Cubberley spoke of how children
mechanically-minded without aptitude for
book learning or of inferior mental
capacities became a nuisance in the
school and tend to demoralize school
procedure at the turn of the 21st
century Bush continued pushing the idea
of No Child Left Behind the complete
opposite which expands special ed at the
expense of gifted and talented programs
promotes outcome based education and
atrocious educational philosophy now
being promoted and furthers state
control of your children if you believe
in the myth of a benevolent nanny state
that looks out for your best interests
from cradle to grave No Child Left
Behind might fit well into your
philosophy but for independent
individuals lovers of freedom this is
the final step in government mind
control
Helen Todd wrote in 1909
Factory inspector did an informal survey
of 500 working children in 20 factories
she found that 412 of them would rather
work in the terrible conditions of the
factories than returned to school david
tae ik wrote in one experiment in
milwaukee for example 8000 youth were
asked if they would return full-time to
school if they were paid about the same
wages as they earned at work only 16
said they would California Education
Administrator Elwood Cubberley was the
main anti-establishment voice speaking
out against the standardizing and
enforcement of our schooling the leading
pro-establishment voice was u.s.
commissioner of education william tory
harris listen to Harris's words from his
1906 the philosophy of education ninety
nine students out of a hundred are
automata careful to walk in prescribed
paths careful to follow the prescribed
custom this is not an accident
but the result of substantial education
which scientifically defined is the
sabzi individual is this a sane
philosophy of education by any one
standards this is the man who gave
America scientifically age graded
classrooms to replace the long
successful practice of mixed age school
houses in the philosophy of Education
Harris wrote his vision of the perfect
classroom the great purpose of school
can be realized better in dark airless
ugly places it is to master the physical
self to transcend the beauty of nature
schools should develop the power to
withdraw from the external world the
first federalized education board was
the 1870 founded NE a national education
administration which quickly announced
that countrywide school science courses
must be restructured to teach evolution
as fact not Theory having gained the
fair amount of coal in the NEA in 1903
john d rockefeller created the GEB
general education board in an effort
toward this goal of social control later
in 1923 he would also create the
International Education Board providing
over twenty million dollars to promote
education abroad the Rockefeller
Carnegie and Ford groups have often
funded and thus steered American
education more so even than the
government john taylor gatto wrote
reading through the papers of the
Rockefeller Foundation's general
education board an endowment rivaled in
school policy influence in the first
half of the 20th century only by Andrew
Carnegie's various philanthropies seven
curious elements forced themselves on
the careful reader one there appears a
clear intention to mold people through
schooling two there's a clear intention
to eliminate tradition and scholarship
three the net effect of various projects
is to create a strong class system
verging on cast for there is a clear
intention to reduce mass critical
intelligence while supporting infinite
specialization five there is clear
intention to weaken parental influence
six there is clear intention to
overthrow accepted custom seven there is
striking congruence between the
cumulative purposes of GEB projects and
the utopian precepts of the oddball
religious sect once known as
perfectionism a secular religion aimed
at making the perfection of human nature
not salvation or happiness the purpose
of existence the agenda of philanthropy
which had so much to do with the schools
we got turns out to contain an intensely
political component Gary Allen wrote one
would assume that since the Rockefellers
are thought of as capitalists they would
have used their fortune to foster the
philosophy of individual liberty but
just the opposite is true we have been
unable to find a single project in the
history of the Rockefeller Foundation's
which promotes free enterprise almost
all of the Rockefeller grants have been
used directly or indirectly to promote
economic and social collectivism ie
socialism Meyer Coates wrote
philanthropy is the essential element in
the making of Rockefeller power it gives
the Rockefellers a priceless reputation
as public benefactors which the public
values so highly that power over public
affairs is placed in the Rockefellers
hands
philanthropy generates
more power than wealth alone can provide
Rockefeller charity and philanthropy
influences many sectors of society from
education to politics to religion here's
an abridged list of Rockefeller funded
organizations American assembly American
Association for the United Nations
American Friends Service Committee
Atlantic Union Center for Advanced Study
in behavioral science center of
diplomacy and foreign policy Citizens
Committee for International Development
committees on Foreign Relations
Committee for Economic Development
Council on Foreign Relations federation
of world governments foreign policy
Association
Institute of International Education
Institute for world order National
Planning Association u.s. national
commission the trilateral commission
World Affairs Council and the United
world Federalists notice any trends any
doubt regarding the Rockefellers intent
and starting the GEB should be clarified
in John Dee's own mission statement
which reads in our dreams
people yield themselves with perfect
facility to our moulding hands the
present education conventions of
intellectual and character education
fade from their minds and unhampered by
tradition we work our own goodwill upon
a grateful and responsive folk we shall
not try to make these people or any of
their children into philosophers or men
of science we have not to raise up from
them authors educators poets or men of
letters
we shall not search for great artists
painters musicians nor lawyers doctors
preachers politicians statesmen of whom
we have an ample supply the task is
simple we will organize children and
teach them in a perfect way the things
their fathers and mothers are doing in
an imperfect way this is not a man
looking out for the best interest of
students you can get a good sense of his
demeanor from statements like yield
themselves with perfect docility to our
moulding hands and talking about
creating a perfect system of state
education better than imperfect parental
education Martin Luther King jr. for one
disagrees with john d rockefeller saying
the group consisting of mother father
and child is the main educational agency
of mankind
who do you agree with prior to World War
one in a speech to American businessman
President Woodrow Wilson admitted
similar goals of the Rockefellers
stating we want one class to have a
liberal education we want another class
a very much larger class of necessity to
forgo the privilege of a liberal
education and fit themselves to perform
specific difficult manual tasks in 1931
Paul Mann - in his foreword to
international understanding wrote and
the Builder of this new world must be
education plainly the first step in the
case of each country is to train an
elite to think feel and act
internationally in 1932 continuing their
effort to change the philosophical goals
of American education the Rockefeller
and Carnegie dominated any a created the
epc educational policies commission
years later the epc put together its
book education for all American youth
which outlined federal programs for
health education and Welfare to be
combined under one giant bureaucracy it
outlined preschool programs sex
education classes and the removal of
local control over educational issues
without seeming to do so a 1934 any a
report advised a dying laissez faire
must be completely destroyed and all of
us including the owners must be
subjected to a large degree of social
control so these education experts
actually speak of themselves as owners
and worried about falling under a large
degree of the social control which they
themselves implement walter Lippmann
wrote in 1940 the thesis I ventured to
submit to you is as follows that during
the past forty or fifty years those who
are responsible for education have
progressively removed from the
curriculum of the studies the Western
culture which produced the modern
democratic state that the schools and
colleges have therefore been sending it
out into the world men who no longer
understand creative principle of the
society in which they must live but
deprived of their cultural tradition the
newly educated Western men
no longer possessed in the form and
substance of their own minds and spirits
and ideas the premises the rationale the
logic the method the values of the
deposited wisdom which are the genius of
the development of Western civilization
but the prevailing education is destined
if it continues to destroy Western
civilization and is in fact destroying
it
I realize quite well that this thesis
constitutes a sweeping indictment of
modern education but I believe the
indictment is justified and here is a
prima facie case for entering this
indictment in 1942 the Institute of
Pacific relations published post-war
worlds in it PE Corbett wrote world
government is the ultimate aim it must
be recognized that the law of nations
takes precedence over national law the
process will have to be assisted by the
deletion of the nationalistic material
employed in educational textbooks and
its replacement by material explaining
the benefits of Weiser Association in
1946 former editor of the NEA Journal
joy Elmer published the teacher and
world government saying things like in
the struggle to establish an adequate
world government the teacher can do much
to prepare the hearts and minds of
children for global understanding and
cooperation at the very heart of all the
agencies which will assure the coming of
world government must stand the school
the teacher and the organized profession
the next year in 1947 the American
education fellowship organized by
establishment minion John Dewey of the
Dewey Decimal System called for the
establishment of a genuine world order
an order in which national sovereignty
is subordinate to world authority in
October 1947 NEA associate secretary
william Carr wrote in the NEA Journal
that teachers should teach about the
various proposals that have been made
for the strengthening of the United
Nations and the establishment of a world
citizenship and a world government max
Otto in 1949 wrote it was natural
businessman should devote themselves to
something besides business that they
should seek to influence the enactment
and administration of law
national and international and that they
should try to control education elitist
committee of 300 philosopher Bertrand
Russell in his 1951 book the impact of
science on society wrote education
should aim at destroying free will so
that after pupils are thus schooled they
will be incapable throughout the rest of
their lives of thinking or acting
otherwise than as their school masters
would have wished influences of the home
are obstructive and in order to
condition students versus set to music
and repeatedly intoned are very
effective it is for a future scientist
to make these Maxim's precise and
discover exactly how much it costs per
head to make children believe that snow
is black when the technique has been
perfected every government that has been
in charge of education for more than one
generation will be able to control its
subjects securely without the need of
armies of policemen in 1953 Carol Reese
Tennessee congressman and chairman of
the RNC Republican National Committee
along with research director Norman Dodd
and lawyer Rene Wormser performed the
first and only in-depth investigation
into the activities of the Rockefeller
Carnegie and Ford Foundation's and their
effect on American education Rene
Wormser wrote that the recent
vestigation leads one to the conclusion
that there was indeed something in the
nature of an actual conspiracy among
certain leading educators in the United
States to bring about socialism through
the use of our school systems they
discovered that the Rockefeller
Foundation was the primary culprit
behind the any age rapidly changing
policies and the teaching of socialism
in America's schools and universities
Wormser continued a very powerful
complex of foundations and allied
organizations has developed over the
years to exercise a high degree of
control over education part of this
complex and ultimately responsible for
it are the Rockefeller and Carnegie
groups during a personal meeting
president Rowan gaiter of the Ford
Foundation told the Reese committee
research director Norman Dodd that all
of us here at the policy-making level of
the foundation haven't
time or another served in the OSS
precursor to the CIA or the European
economic administration operating under
directives from the White House we
operate under those same directives the
substance under which we operate is that
we shall use our grant-making power to
so alter life in the United States that
we can be comfortably merged with the
Soviet Union as their meeting turned
from civil to threatening gaither warned
odd if you proceed with the
investigation as you have outlined you
will be killed
Fritz spring Meyer wrote this was the
situation in the 1950s when the Reese
committee briefly investigated the
Rockefeller Carnegie groups have
continued basically unopposed for the
next 40 years in controlling education
one of the educational book producers is
growler Inc every Rockefeller jr. sits
on growler inks board meetings
another interesting board member is
Theodore Waller who is the director of
growler Inc he was a member of the
International Book Committee of UNESCO
in the mid-60s the Education Department
produced a document called designing
education which advised each state to
lose its independent identity as well as
its authority in order to form a
partnership with the federal government
another important document at the time
was Benjamin blooms taxonomy of
educational objectives which was used as
a tool to classify the ways individuals
are to act think or feel as the result
of some unit of instruction using BF
Skinner's operant conditioning and other
new behavioral psychology models
American education shifted focus towards
emotional and outcome based learning so
called Values Clarification
and sensitivity training as noted by a
PhD superintendent of self st. Paul
Minnesota schools Ray Powell in 1975
quote it's all brainwashing in 1981 the
NEA published the Special Committee on
instructional technology report which as
usual addressed the public and children
as lumps of clay to be molded to suit
their will in it's coming involvement
with a technology of instruction the
profession will be faced again with the
challenge of leadership
by example and by effective
communication the challenge of
convincing the public that education is
much more than treating students like so
many Pavlovian dogs to be conditioned
and programmed into docile acceptance of
a do-it-yourself blueprint of the good
life through outcome based learning and
other sophisticated standardised mind
control methods which continue being
refined to present-day our government
schools are perpetually preparing a new
workforce for job specialization as
Charlotte is Ruby wrote in the
deliberate dumbing down of America
outcome based education because it
concentrates on an end product of its
process can be said to restrict the
students mental functioning success in
an outcome-based environment is
restricted to performing prescribed
tasks to the point of atomic isset ii
the functions of memory and creativity
are not used nor are they considered
necessary to succeed in an OBE program
or any program that uses skineri and
mastery learning or direct instruction
predictability is the bottom line for
OBE
limiting the student to only those
responses which are prescribed when
trained by OBE methodology the student
cannot fail unless he employs creativity
and produces an unpredicted response in
an OBE environment he can believe only
that which is acceptable the most
predictable outcome over time is
frustration and ultimately low
achievement and behavior problems
john taylor gatto wrote in the
underground history of american
education schools at present are the
occupation of children children have
become employees pensioners of the
government at an early age but
government jobs are frequently not
really jobs at all that certainly is the
case in the matter of being a school
child there is nothing more very little
to do in school but one thing is
demanded that children must attend
condemned to hours of desperation
pretending to do a job that doesn't
exist at the end of the day tired fed up
full of aggression their families feel
the accumulated tedium of their pinched
lives government jobs for children have
broken the spirit of our people during
the Reagan administration US Department
of Ed
education senior policy advisor was
Camden Maine school board director
Charlotte uzuki is Irby has long been an
appreciated voice of opposition to
outcome-based education and Skinnerian
methodology she recently compiled a
mammoth informative expose of the
devolution of American education called
the deliberate dumbing down of America
she explains how quote an alien
collectivist socialist philosophy much
of which came from Europe crashed onto
the shores of our nation bringing with
it radical changes in economics politics
and education funded surprisingly enough
by several wealthy American families and
their tax-exempt foundations the goal of
these wealthy families and their
foundations a seamless non-competitive
global system for commerce and trade
when stripped of Flowery expressions for
concern for minorities the less
fortunate
etc represented the initial stage of
what this author now refers to as the
deliberate dumbing down of America
seventy years later the carefully laid
plans to change America from a sovereign
constitutional republic with a free
enterprise economic base to just one of
many nations in the international
socialist collectivist system new world
order are apparent only at dumbed-down
population with no memory of America's
root as a prideful nation could be
expected to willingly succumb to the
global workforce training planned by the
Carnegie Corporation and the John D
Rockefellers john taylor gatto author of
the underground history of american
education was New York Teacher of the
Year for the third time in 1991 when he
quit his thirty-year teaching career
saying that he was quote no longer
willing to hurt children he wrote I feel
ashamed that so many of us cannot
imagine a better way to do things than
locking children up all day in cells
instead of letting them grow up knowing
their families mingling with the world
assuming real obligations striving to be
independent and self-reliant and free I
don't mean to be inflammatory but it's
as if government schooling made people
dumber not brighter made families weaker
not stronger the training field for
these grotesque human qualities is the
classroom schools trained individuals to
respond as a mass boys and girls are
drilled in
being bored frightened envious
emotionally needy and generally in
complete a successful mass production
economy requires such a clientele a
small business small farm economy like
that if the Amish requires individual
competence thoughtfulness compassion and
universal participation our own requires
a manageable spiritless anxious family
lists friendless godless and obedient
people who believe the difference
between shears and Seinfeld is the
subject worth arguing about an executive
director of the National Education
Association announced that his
organization expected to accomplish by
education
what dictators in Europe are seeking to
do by compulsion and force you can't get
much clearer than that World War two
drove the project underground but hardly
retarded its momentum following
cessation of global hostilities school
became a major domestic battleground for
the scientific rationalization of Social
Affairs through compulsory
indoctrination it is very important for
both governments and corporations that
schools constantly turn out
unquestioning uninformed sheeple crushed
of creativity and individuality who are
emotionally needy respond in groupthink
patterns and find their only reprieve
and materialism and advertising as
jailed Bracy leading promoter of
government schooling wrote in his 1991
annual report to business clients quote
we must continue to produce an
uneducated social class lifetime
learning systems a new corporation
helping advertisers infiltrate our
schools said to its clients quote school
is the ideal time to influence attitudes
build long term loyalties introduce new
products test market promote sampling
and trial usage and above all to
generate immediate sales Suzanne
Cornforth
of cashel & Associates public relations
consultants was quoted in The New York
Times on July 15 1998 saying today's
corporate sponsors want to see their
money used in ways to line up with
business objectives this is a young
generation of corporate sponsors and
they have discovered the advantages of
building long-term relationships with
educational institutions john taylor
gatto wrote the secret of american
school
is that it doesn't teach the way
children learn and it isn't supposed to
school was engineered to serve a
concealed command economy and a
deliberately re stratified social order
it wasn't made for the benefit of kids
and families as those individuals and
institutions would define their own
needs schools the first-impression
children get of organized society like
most first impressions it is the lasting
one life according to school is dull and
stupid only consumption promises relief
Coke Big Macs fashion jeans that's where
real meaning is found that is the
classrooms lesson however indirectly
delivered advertising public relations
and stronger forms of quasi religious
propaganda are so pervasive in our
schools even in alternative schools that
independent judgment is suffocated in
mass-produced secondary experiences and
market tested initiatives scientifically
subjecting young children to
factory-style seeding standardized
testing and government textbooks bring
order out of chaos and make for
manageable populations modern schools
create uniformity while suppressing
skepticism and creativity they over
develop competitive spirit while
undermining compassion and curiosity
they promote cliques gangs small group
mentalities and small picture thinkers
grading and testing procedures hinder
big picture understanding of any subject
and for students to focus on more simple
gradable aspects true education and
mastery of the subjects at hand are not
encouraged or even feasible students are
merely required to memorize trivial
information like names dates places
events etc just long enough to
regurgitate for standardized
multiple-choice tests then after
examination the trivial info stored in
their short-term memory disappears along
with their superficial understandings of
each subject Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote
we are students of words we are shut up
in schools and colleges and recitation
rooms for 10 or 15 years and come out at
last with a bag of wind a memory of
words and do not know a thing
HL Mencken wrote that erroneous
assumption is to the effect that the aim
of public education is to fill the young
of the species with Mal
and awaken their intelligence and so
make them fit to discharge the duties of
citizenship in an enlightened and
independent manner nothing could be
further from the truth the aim of public
education is not to spread enlightenment
at all it is simply to reduce as many
individuals as possible to the same safe
level to breed and train a standardized
citizenry to put down dissent and
originality that is its aim in the
United States
whatever the pretensions of politicians
pedagogues and other such mountebanks
and that is it same everywhere else John
Stuart Mill wrote a general state
education is a mere contrivance for
moulding people to be exactly like one
another and as the mould in which it
casts them is that which pleases the
predominant power in the government it
establishes a despotism over the mind
David Icke wrote the Brotherhood has
also structured the education system and
the media to lock people in what I call
the left brain prison the left brain is
the area which deals with the physical
world view rational thought and all that
can be seen touched heard and smelt the
right brain is our intuition and our
connection with higher dimensions this
is where you find the artist and
creativity inspired by our uniqueness of
thought and expression the education
system and its offshoots like the media
and science are designed to speak to the
left brain and to switch off right brain
thinking this is why spending on the
arts in schools is being cut back all
over the world and rigid left brain
programs imposed education fills the
left brain with information much of
which is untrue and inaccurate and it
demands that this is stored and then
regurgitated on the exam paper if you do
this like a robot you pass if however
you filter the information through the
right brain and say hey this is a piece
of shit you won't pass even though
you'll be telling the truth isn't
education just wonderful it has been
demonstrated if you read the brainwaves
of a typical American left brain neurons
are constantly more active than the
right and with the constant suppression
of creativity and right brain sympathies
we crank out a population of students
who want to be musicians actors artists
painters and poets but are forced into
the real world jobs of accounting is
economics advertising etc Bertrand
Russell wrote what's the difference
between a bright inquisitive
five-year-old and a dull stupid 19 year
old 14 years of the British educational
system Vladimir Lenin wrote give me four
years to teach the children and the seed
I have sown will never be uprooted
Joseph Stalin wrote education is a
weapon whose effect depends on who holds
it in his hands and that whom it is
aimed Winston Churchill wrote schools
have not necessarily much to do with
education they are mainly institutions
of control where basic habits must be
inculcated in the young education is
quite different and has little place in
school
Isabelle Patterson wrote attack
supported compulsory educational system
is the complete model of the
totalitarian state every day all over
the world millions of bright young minds
are spending the best years of their
lives being herded around by governments
like cattle responding to bells whistles
and other Pavlovian and skineri and
conditioning millions of children are
locked into this program Monday to
Friday from 9:00 to 5:00 performing
boring and arduous tasks against their
will because society has deemed it
necessary
just like the workplace only
unquestioning compliance is rewarded and
your only reprieves are snack breaks and
lunch time which are withheld from you
like salivating dogs until the bell
rings
meanwhile you anxiously sit in rigid
rows all facing the big boss at the
blackboard focused on fantasy objectives
conditioned to view other students as
competitors and hindrances john taylor
gatto wrote by bells and other
concentration destroying technology
schools teach that nothing is worth
finishing because some arbitrary power
intervenes both periodically and a
periodically love of learning can't
survive the study drill students are
taught to work for little favors and
ceremonial grades which correlate poorly
with their actual ability by addicting
children to outside approval and
nonsense rewards schools make them
indifferent to the real power and
potential than in tears and
self-discovery reveals schools alienate
the winners as well the losers by stars
cheques smiles frowns prizes honors and
disgraces
schools conditioned children to lifelong
emotional dependency it's like training
a dog the reward punishment cycle known
to animal trainers from antiquity is the
heart of a human psychology distilled in
the late 19th century leipzig and
incorporated thoroughly into scientific
management revolution of the early 20th
century in america half a century later
by 1968 it infected every school system
in the United States each day schools
reinforce how absolute an arbitrary
power really is by granting and denying
access to fundamental needs for toilets
water privacy and movement in this way
basic human rights which usually require
only individual volition are transformed
into privileges not to be taken for
granted
school teaches how hopeless it is to
resist because you are always watched
there is no place to hide nor should you
want to your avoidance behavior is
actually a signal you should be watched
even more closely than the others
privacy is a thought crime school sees
to it that there is no private time no
private space no minute uncommanded no
desk free from search no bruise not
inspected by medical policing or the
counseling autumn of thought patrols
Marvin Minsky wrote seems to me that
much of what we call education is really
socialization consider what we do to our
kids is it really a good idea to send
your six-year-old into a room full of
six-year-olds and then the next year to
put your seven-year-old in a room full
of seven year olds and so on a simple
recursive argument suggests this exposes
them to a real danger of all growing up
with the minds of six-year-olds and so
far as I can see that's exactly what
happens our present culture may be
largely shaped by this strange idea of
isolating children's thought from adult
thought perhaps the way our culture
educates its children better explains
why most of us come out as dumb as they
do then it explains how some of us come
out as smart as they do william damon
wrote there is never in the history of
the civilized world been a cohort of
kids that is so little affected by adult
guidance and so attuned to appear world
we have removed grown-up wisdom and
allowed them to drift into a self
constructed highly relativistic world of
friendship and peers John Gatto wrote
don't let a world of funny
animals dancing alphabet letters pastel
colors and preaching music suffocate
your little boy or girls consciousness
at exactly the moment when big questions
about the world beckon funny animals
were invented by social engineers they
knew something important about fantasy
and social engineering that you should
teach yourself does all this age graded
childish edutainment serve to make
education more fun or more trivial and
superficial as cute as they may be our
Disney Barney Sesame Street and others
what is best for our children are
textbooks with bright color pictures
helpful or distracting commas Hodgkin
wrote men had better be without
education than be educated by their
rulers Leo Tolstoy wrote take at hazard
100 children of several educated
generations and 100 uneducated children
of the people and compare them in
anything you please in strength and
agility in mind in the ability to
acquire knowledge even in morality and
in all respects you are startled by the
vast superiority on the side of the
children of the uneducated George
Bernard Shaw wrote my schooling not only
failed to teach me what it professed to
be teaching but prevented me from being
educated to an extent which infuriates
me when I think of all I might have
learned at home by myself
john taylor gatto wrote samuel johnson
entered a note into his diary several
hundred years ago about the powerful
effect reading Hamlet was having upon
him he was mine at the time
Abraham Cowley wrote of his infinite
delight with Spenser's Faerie Queene an
epic poem that treats moral values
allegorically in nine line stanzas that
never existed before Spenser and hardly
since he spoke of his pleasure with its
stories of knights and Giants and
monsters and brave houses Cowley was 12
at the time it couldn't have been an
easy read in 1634 anyone and it's beyond
the reach of many elite college
graduates today what happened the answer
is that Dick and Jane happened Frank had
a dog his name was spot that happened
there are many ways to burn books
without a match you can order the
reading of childish books to be
substituted for serious ones as we have
done
you can simplify the language you allow
in schoolbooks to the point that
students become disgusted with reading
because it demeans them being sinner
rules in their spoken speech we have
done that to one subtle and very
effective strategy is to fill books with
pictures and lively graphics so they
trivialize words in the same fashion the
worst tabloid newspapers do forcing
pictures and graphs into space where
readers should be building pictures of
their own pre-empting space into which
personal intellect should be expanding
in this we are the world's master George
Washington attended only two years of
formal schooling in his life Abraham
Lincoln had only 50 weeks of schooling
and even that was seen as a waste of his
time by his relatives in 1840 the rate
of complex literacy in the US was
incredibly high between 93 and a hundred
percent the Connecticut census showed
only one of every five hundred and
seventy nine people was illiterate over
a century and a half later in 1993 the
National adult literacy survey reported
that one in every five Americans was
illiterate
the 1993 survey represented 190 million
US adults over age 16 with an average
school attendance of twelve point four
years 42 million were completely
illiterate 50 million read at a fourth
to fifth grade level 55 to 60 million
read at a 6th to 8th grade level 30
million at a 9th to 10th grade level and
less than 10 million at a university
level Sir Walter Scott wrote all men who
have turned out worth anything have had
the chief hand in their own education
john taylor gatto wrote in 1880 to 5th
graders read these authors in their
Appleton school reader William
Shakespeare Henry Thoreau George
Washington Sir Walter Scott Mark Twain
Benjamin Franklin Oliver Wendell Holmes
John Bunyan Daniel Webster Samuel
Johnson Lewis Carroll Thomas Jefferson
Ralph Waldo Emerson and others like them
in 1995 a student teacher of 5th graders
in Minneapolis wrote to the local
newspaper I was told children are not to
be expected to spell the following whoo
it's correctly back big call came can
they did dog down get good have he home
if in is it like little man morning
mother my night off out over people play
Ram said saw she some soon their been
their time to to us very water we went
where when will would etc is this not
dr. Seuss the children's author wrote
many bestsellers admittedly using a
controlled scientific vocabulary
supplied by his publisher he said in a
1981 interview that I did it for a
textbook house and they sent me a word
list that was due to the Dewey revolt in
the 20s in which they threw out phonics
reading and went to a word recognition
as if you're reading a Chinese
pictograph instead of blending sounds or
different letters I think killing
phonics was one of the greatest causes
of illiteracy in the country anyway they
had it all worked out that a healthy
child at the age of four can only learn
so many words in a week so there were
two hundred and twenty three words to
use in this book I read the list three
times and I almost went out of my head I
said I'll read it once more and if I can
find two words that rhyme that'll be the
title of my book I found cat and hat and
said the title of my book will be the
Cat in the Hat
Richard Mitchell wrote far from failing
in its intended task our educational
system is in fact succeeding
magnificently because its aim is to keep
the American people thoughtless enough
to go on supporting the system
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