Back to school: 7 Year Old Forced To Bark Like A Dog For Punishment

One of his other books The Underground History of American Education

is available on line at

http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/underground/

I just have to include a short section explaining who started modern public schooling.

I know how difficult it is for most of us who mow our lawns and walk our dogs to comprehend that long-range social engineering even exists, let alone that it began to dominate compulsion schooling nearly a century ago. Yet the 1934 edition of Ellwood P. Cubberley’s Public Education in the United States is explicit about what happened and why. As Cubberley puts it:

It has come to be desirable that children should not engage in productive labor. On the contrary, all recent thinking...[is] opposed to their doing so. Both the interests of organized labor and the interests of the nation have set against child labor.1

The statement occurs in a section of Public Education called "A New Lengthening of the Period of Dependence," in which Cubberley explains that "the coming of the factory system" has made extended childhood necessary by depriving children of the training and education that farm and village life once gave. With the breakdown of home and village industries, the passing of chores, and the extinction of the apprenticeship system by large-scale production with its extreme division of labor (and the "all conquering march of machinery"), an army of workers has arisen, said Cubberley, who know nothing.

Furthermore, modern industry needs such workers. Sentimentality could not be allowed to stand in the way of progress. According to Cubberley, with "much ridicule from the public press" the old book-subject curriculum was set aside, replaced by a change in purpose and "a new psychology of instruction which came to us from abroad." That last mysterious reference to a new psychology is to practices of dumbed-down schooling common to England, Germany, and France, the three major world coal-powers (other than the United States), each of which had already converted its common population into an industrial proletariat.

Arthur Calhoun’s 1919 Social History of the Family notified the nation’s academics what was happening. Calhoun declared that the fondest wish of utopian writers was coming true, the child was passing from its family "into the custody of community experts." He offered a significant forecast, that in time we could expect to see public education "designed to check the mating of the unfit." Three years later, Mayor John F. Hylan of New York said in a public speech that the schools had been seized as an octopus would seize prey, by "an invisible government." He was referring specifically to certain actions of the Rockefeller Foundation and other corporate interests in New York City which preceded the school riots of 1917.

Obedience is the highest virtue a slave can demonstrate to their masters. The young slave needs to learn to obey.

/end sarcasm

We've made the worst parents, voted in the worst leaders, and have become dumbed down and subservient like good sheep.

Being hit never made you a better person. You've justified what those people did to you because it's really hard to look back on your childhood and realize the people who were supposed to protect you hurt you instead.

I get how we thought mouth-taping was funny in the 1st grade, but even that mentality got out of hand. My brother was taped to his desk for having Tourette's and some girl who saw it developed insomnia, which shows the impact these things have on even the bystanders. Not funny at all.

your soul! So abuse is funny? I admit I may have missed some comments by you, so there's a possibility that I am wrong, but I have not once ever noticed you saying anything positive or uplifting!