The Underground History Of American Education - Incredible Book Online!!!

My good friend Georgiana recommended this extraordinary book by John Taylor Gatto. A great one for the Liberty/Constitution movement.

Prologue

The shocking possibility that dumb people don’t exist in sufficient numbers to warrant the millions of careers devoted to tending them will seem incredible to you. Yet that is my central proposition: the mass dumbness which justifies official schooling first had to be dreamed of; it isn’t real.

* Bianca, You Animal, Shut Up!
* I Quit, I Think
* The New Individualism
* School As Religion
* He Was Square Inside And Brown
* The New Dumbness
* Putting Pedagogy To The Question
* Author’s Note

Chapter One
The Way It Used To Be

Our official assumptions about the nature of modern childhood are dead wrong. Children allowed to take responsibility and given a serious part in the larger world are always superior to those merely permitted to play and be passive. At the age of twelve, Admiral Farragut got his first command. I was in fifth grade when I learned of this. Had Farragut gone to my school he would have been in seventh.

* A Nation From The Bottom Up
* You Had To Do It Yourself
* No Limit To Pain For Those Who Allow It
* The Art Of Driving
* Two Approaches To Discipline
* The Schools Of Hellas
* The Fresco At Herculaneum
* The Seven Liberal Arts
* The Platonic Ideal
* Oriental Pedagogy
* Counter-Attack On Democracy
* How Hindu Schooling Came To America (I)
* How Hindu Schooling Came To America (II)
* How Hindu Schooling Came To America (III)
* Braddock’s Defeat
* Farragut
* Ben Franklin
* George Washington
* Montaigne’s Curriculum

Chapter Two
An Angry Look At Modern Schooling

The secret of American schooling is that it doesn’t teach the way children learn and it isn’t supposed to. It took seven years of reading and reflection to finally figure out that mass schooling of the young by force was a creation of the four great coal powers of the nineteenth century. Nearly one hundred years later, on April 11, 1933, Max Mason, president of the Rockefeller Foundation, announced to insiders that a comprehensive national program was underway to allow, in Mason’s words, “the control of human behavior.”

* A Change In The Governing Mind
* Extending Childhood
* The Geneticist’s Manifesto
* Participatory Democracy Put To The Sword
* Bad Character As A Management Tool
* An Enclosure Movement For Children
* The Dangan
* Occasional Letter Number One
* Change Agents Infiltrate
* Bionomics
* Waking Up Angry

The entire book go here:

http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/underground/toc1.htm