http://www.lvrj.com/opinion/8517012.html
Jul. 15, 2007
VIN SUPRYNOWICZ: Helping students become ‘responsible citizens’?
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America’s schools aren’t failing, Gatto discovered. They’re doing precisely what they were re-designed to do between the 1850s and the early 1900s, when America embarked on our current imperial/mercantilist adventure — that is, to churn out little soldiers and factory workers with mindless obedience drilled in and with the higher critical faculties burned out of them through the process of feeding them learning in small unrelated bits like pre-digested gruel, till they neither know how nor feel any inclination to discern higher patterns, which might lead them to challenge the “party line.”
Who dreamed up such a system?
John Dewey and Horace Mann brought this form of “compulsion schooling” home from Prussia, Gatto learned.
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When will the taxpayers and parents realize what they are doing to their children?
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