to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence. . . . Nothing could be further from the truth. The aim.. . 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 . . . and that is its aim everywhere else.
From the article Against School by John Taylor Gatto.
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
H. L. Mencken, who wrote in The American Mercury for April 1924 that the aim of public education is not
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OUCH. That's harsh...as my son would say. It does seem to suck the spirit out of some children.
If that's true, both you and I suck, and you and I both know we don't.
i did feel unusually like a herd animal by the end of high school...
but THEY never did break me of that spirit that keeps me going.
Thanks.=}
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