My heart is broken every time I drive by a godless K-12 single-payer school.
It’s like watching a train wreck in slow motion.
We have the same heart on this one. I feel it in my bones.
Even when I was in school, I used to ask myself, How can they teach us one thing in one class, and the opposite thing in another class? Who's in charge?
I couldn't find answers to these questions. I even tried suppressing the thoughts, but by the grace of God, that didn't work, either. Fortunately, I eventually came upon some strands of truth in my 20s and pursued them until I could put the entire picture together. The final piece of the puzzle was Gatto's "Underground History of American Education."
I once described my tortured relationship with schooling to a liberal public school advocate. She said, "Well, that was your problem." "What?" "You thought too much." I couldn't find words to respond. If that doesn't represent the triumph of modern schooling, what does?
I just think about the popular image of the "dark" medieval Scholastic period, with its classical curriculum that centered around grammar and logic, and today's grab-bag of nothingness.