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If home schooling was good enough for Abe Lincoln;
then its good enough for mine.
WE need to get rid of government schools. Nothing else is adequate.
Lord have mercy on us.
Aside from Sam Blumenfeld, Gatto is the only ed writer I've found that is worth reading. He's a great man and a great writer.
And they'll get my kids over my dead body.
Schools would serve as "instruments of managed evolution, establishing conditions for selective breeding before the masses take things into their own hands" (now I quoted that from a published essay by Edward Thorndike at Columbia Teacher's college in 1911).
Ideas have consequences.
The real purpose of modern schooling was announced by the legendary sociologist Edward Roth in his manifesto of 1906 called SOCIAL CONTROL. Your librarian will easily be able to get a copy of this book. In it Roth wrote, (I am quoting) "plans are underway to replace family, community and church with propaganda, mass-media and education (of course he meant schooling)...people are only little plastic lumps of dough". Another insider, H. H. Cadard, chairman for the Psychology Department at Princeton, called government schooling approvingly -- "the perfect organization of the hive with the anthill". Cadard wrote further, "standardized testing would cause the lower classes to confront their biological inferiority, sort of like wearing a dunce cap. In time that would discourage reproduction of the ants on the anthill".The hits keep right on comin'
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We need to appeal to the God of "In God We Trust"
i love this guy... i read his, The Underground History of American Education, a couple of years ago... what a read!
HOMESCHOOL PING!
A SHORT ANGRY HISTORY OF AMERICAN FORCED SCHOOLING
It might have caused more people to read this.