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John Taylor Gatto is an American retired school teacher of 29 years 8 months and author of several books on education.
He is an activist critical of compulsory schooling and the hegemonic nature of discourse on education and the education professions.
He is an activist critical of compulsory schooling and the hegemonic nature of discourse on education and the education professions.
"there isn't any way to puninsh a large amount of deviants, it's too expensive... colonise the minds of children so that they become police, and they will report other children who are deviating..."
this is THE conspiracy theory, the fucking Mother of All Conspiracy Theories, and it works because it doesn't even need conscious conspirators.... you are gone before you are 6 years old, and then if you still persist in "deviating" you'll find life is pretty much the same as the schoolyard... people will shun you in the workplace, because they are afraid of punishment or exclusion from employment.
secretly they envy your unashamed freedom and call you names on forums while trying to incite the herd to put on a happy happy joy joy face and exclude YOU before you make them look stupid.
Parents need to pay more attention to what's going on with their children instead of running after that damned dollar and trusting completely the institutions that are raising your children.
Parents are loosing their place in the minds and hearts of our kids.
Well, unless you're one of the sheeple, then you won't have the presence of mind to notice....or agree..or care
Once grown and in the workforce the masses are subjected to now varying forms of "Scientific Management," or "Taylorism."
For further reading I suggest Antonio Gramsci's Notebook 22.
Here's an overview: http://www.infed.org/thinkers/et-gram.htm
Sinchronicity?
posted the bigger one though...
I just thought I'd contribute another book I'm busy reading because it's extremely relevant to this topic. It's called "Generation on Hold: Coming of Age in the Late Twentieth Century" by Professors James Cote & Anton Alahar.
It has some great information and statistics on the failings of mass education systems (in Canada and the U.S), and talks about the political economy and it's effect on adolescents including gender intensification, identity manipulation etc etc. It's a great read.