August 24, 2010

https://www.lewrockwell.com/podcast/157-we-dont-need-no-education-we-dont-need-no-thought-control-no-dark-sarcasm-in-the-classroom-teachers-leave-them-kids-alone/

Lew Rockwell interviews John Taylor Gatto

Mr. Gatto quit as a public school teacher in order to stop harming kids. He had discovered that institutional schooling is designed to prevent the natural genius of children from emerging. Public schools impose a state of permanent incompletion to our kids, by teaching habit-training, not intellectual development. The power elite deliberately suppresses independent and critical thinking, to make us obedient citizens and consumers. Gatto, author of the best-selling Weapons of Mass Instruction, Dumbing Us Down, and The Underground History of American Education, discusses how the twenty elite boarding schools teach their students according to ancient principles, and homeschoolers and unschoolers are doing the same.

Gatto’s website

Gatto’s most recent article on LRC: The Public School Nightmare: Why fix a system designed to destroy individual thought?