Wow... Lot’s of excellent topics of discussion on that sight...
“school in America became like school in Germany, a servant of corporate and political management.”
“The secret of commerce, that kids drive purchases, meant that schools had to become psychological laboratories where training in consumerism was the central pursuit.”
“School became jail-time to escape if you could, arenas of meaningless pressure as with the omnipresent “standardized” exams, which study after study concluded were measuring nothing real.”
I read “Underground History of American Education” in 2000 or so. I made my kids buy it for me for Christmas. I actually was a little skeptical of John Taylor Gatto’s premise, then, I was so naive and needed more philosophy/psychology classes.
As the Wundtians “think”: “One does not educate machines, one adjusts them”.