“At Last – An Award–Winning Teacher Pulls Back the Curtain to reveal the actual “Fourth Purpose” for which Mass Forced Schooling was conceived….”

“The shocking possibility that dumb people don’t exist in sufficient numbers to warrant the millions of careers devoted to tending them will seem incredible to you. Yet that is my central proposition: the mass dumbness which justifies official schooling first had to be dreamed of; it isn’t real.”

The Underground History of American Education: A Schoolteacher’s Intimate Investigation into the Problem of Modern Schooling, by John Taylor Gatto, former New York State Teacher of the Year & 3-time New York City Teacher of the Year (also available in hardback)

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