Underground History of American Education - MUST READ!

[RhondaR]

This isn't just the past. It's bringing us up-to-date, and I
don't like it. I doubt any of you will either.

We can't afford to look the other way and pretend we don't see or
know what is happening to our children in our public schools.

Now you (WE) are about to find out what many others Know!

Parents and Grandparents please Read this.  It's time to open
our eyes. Our children and grandchildren, nieces and nephews
and the children of those you love are at stake. 


The entire book is FREE and online.

You can purchase the book if you like, but it's all here online
for you to read and share with others.  And I pray that you do!




Underground History of American Education

A Schoolteacher's Intimate Investigation
Into The Problem Of Modern Schooling
COMPLETE AND UNEXPURGATED!


At Last –

An Award–Winning Teacher Pulls Back the Curtain to reveal
the actual "Fourth Purpose" for which Mass Forced Schooling
was conceived.


There are 18 Chapters to this online book. 
I am posting the first 6, but not the the book. You'll have to
read it yourself.  I'm only posting enough for those who
are interested or may soon be - to get a real grasp of
what is going on.

You'll have to read it for yourself and in your own time.
I'm just putting in enough to wake up those who will
be awaken.

http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/index.htm



Prologue

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


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 1

The Way It Used To Be

http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/1a.htm


Whoever controls the image and information of the past
determines what and how future generations will think;
whoever controls the information and images of the present
determines how those same people will view the past.

— George Orwell, 1984 (1949)


Take at hazard one hundred children of several educated
generations and one hundred uneducated children of the people
and compare them in anything you please;

in strength, in agility, in mind, in the ability to acquire
knowledge, even in morality—and in all respects you are
startled by the vast superiority on the side of the children
of the uneducated.

— Count Leo Tolstoy, "Education and Children" (1862)



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 2

http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/2a.htm

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.


Today’s corporate sponsors want to see their money used
in ways to line up with business objectives....

This is a young generation of corporate sponsors and they
have discovered the advantages of building long-term
relationships with educational institutions.

— Suzanne Cornforth of Paschall & Associates, public
relations consultants.
As quoted in The New York Times, July 15, 1998


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




Chapter Three

http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/3a.htm

Eyeless In Gaza

Something strange has been going on in government schools,
especially where the matter of reading is concerned.


The deeds were monstrous, but the doer [Adolf Eichmann]....
was quite ordinary, commonplace, and neither demonic
nor monstrous.


There was no sign in him of firm ideological convictions or
of specific evil motives, and the only notable characteristic
one could detect in his past behavior as well as in his behavior
during the trial...    was something entirely negative;
it was not stupidity but thoughtlessness....


Might not the problem of good and evil, our faculty for
telling right from wrong, be connected with our faculty
for thought

— Hannah Arendt, The Life of the Mind



The School Edition
Intellectual Espionage
Looking Behind Appearances
The Sudbury Valley School
Bootie Zimmer
False Premises
A System Of State Propaganda
The Ideology Of The Text
The National Adult Literacy Survey
Name Sounds, Not Things
The Meatgrinder Classroom
The Ignorant Schoolmaster
Frank Had A Dog; His Name Was Spot
The Pedagogy of Literacy
Dick And Jane



Chapter 4

http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/4a.htm

I Quit, I Think


The master’s face goes white, then red. His mouth
tightens and opens and spit flies everywhere....
What will I do, boys?
Flog the boy, sir.
Till?
Till the blood spurts, sir.

— Frank McCourt, Angela’s Ashes.
Writing of Ireland’s schools as
they were in the 1940s.



Wadleigh, The Death School
Dr. Caleb Gattegno, Expert
Intimidation
Hector Of The Feeble-Mind
Hector Isn't The Problem
One Lawyer Equals 3,000 Reams of Paper
The Great Transformation
Education As A Helix Sport
I'm Outta Here!




Chapter 5

http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/5a.htm

True Believers and the Unspeakable Chautauqua


A very small group of young psychologists around the
turn of the century were able to create and market a
system for measuring human talent that has permeated
American institutions of learning and influenced such
fundamental social concepts as:
democracy, sanity, justice, welfare, reproductive rights,
and economic progress.

In creating, owning, and advertising this social
technology the testers created themselves as
professionals.


— Joanne Brown, The Definition of a Profession:

The Authority of Metaphor in the History of
Intelligence Testing


I have undertaken to get at the facts from the point of view
of the business men—citizens of the community who, after all,
pay the bills and, therefore, have a right to say what they
shall have in their schools.

— Charles H. Thurber, from an address at the Annual Meeting
of the National Education Association, July 9, 1897



Munsterberg And His Disciples
The Prototype Is A Schoolteacher
Teachers College Maintains The Planet
A Lofty, Somewhat Inhuman Vision
Rain Forest Algebra
Godless, But Not Irreligious
An Insider’s Insider
Compulsion Schooling
De-Moralizing School Procedure
William Torrey Harris
Cardinal Principles
The Unspeakable Chautauqua



chapter 6

http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/6a.htm

The Lure Of Utopia


Every morning when you picked up your newspaper you
would read of some new scheme for saving the world...

soon all the zealots, all the Come-Outers, all the
transcendentalists of Boston gathered at the Chardon
Street Chapel and harangued each other for
three mortal days.

They talked on nonresistance and the Sabbath reform,
of the Church and the Ministry, and they arrived at no
conclusions.

"It was the most singular collection of strange specimens
of humanity that was ever assembled,"

wrote Edmund Quincy, and Emerson was even more
specific:

"Madmen, madwomen, men with beards, Dunkers,
Muggletonians, Come-Outers, Groaners, Agrarians,
Seventh-day Baptists, Quakers, Abolitionists,
Calvinists, Unitarians, and Philosophers, all came
successively to the top and seized their moment,
if not their hour, wherein to chide, or pray, or preach
or protest....

There was some-thing artificial about the Chardon
Street debates, there was a hothouse atmosphere in
the chapel.


There was too much suffering fools gladly,
there was too much talk, too much display of
learning and of wit, and there was, for all the
talk of tolerance, an unchristian spirit.

— Henry Steele Commager, Theodore Parker


So Fervently Do We Believe
The Necessity Of Detachment
Enlarging The Nervous System
Producing Artificial Wants
The Parens Patriae Powers
The Plan Advances
Children’s Court
Mr.Young’s Head Was Pounded To Jelly
William Rainey Harper
Death Dies
The Three Most Popular Books
No Place To Hide
The Irony Of The Safety Lamp

[Soldier4Christ]

Sister I will be honest in saying that I haven't read the entire book so I cannot say that I agree nor disagree with any of it. I will say though that the public schools of today are a disgrace in education. The schools have gotten away from the teaching of acedemics and are now concentrating on social and governmental acceptabilities. Such things as abortion, homosexuality, evolution, communism/socialism, tolerance of religions except that of Christianity all have become the main focal points of study and indoctrination of our children.

I have been a staunch supporter of parents taking back their role in the education of their children for quite some time now. As Christians we are reminded a number of times in the Bible that it is our responsibily not that of the government to insure that our children are brought up in the ways of the Lord. We cannot do that just with one day a week in church nor with just a few minutes at night. The education of our children is a continual all day, all week long process.

Many parents give the excuses "I can't afford a private school", "I can't teach them myself". "I don't know how to do it", "My children need the social interaction of public schools" .......  the list goes on and on.

Yes private schools can be expensive but if there is anyway at all to afford one it is well worth the investment. If parents absolutely cannot afford it homeschooling is an alternative that is affordable. The expense is less than that of public schooling and any parent with a minimal amount of education can do it. As for socail interaction it is important that our children have the correct social interaction and not that which influences them to go the way of the world which so many children in public schools are doing. I have seen so many "good Christian children" go the way of the world upon leaving home because of the influences of their peers they had in public schooling.

All the excuses that parents can come up with do not cover the fact that they will be held accountable by the Lord for ignoring their childrens proper education.

It is a proven fact that children that are homeschooled will pass the SAT test by far higher than those that are not. It is also proven that homeschooled children are able to pass the Military test batteries at a much higher rate.

One of the excuses that I have heard against homeschooling is that the children cannot as adults then get into the Military or other jobs that require a high school diploma. This is no longer true. There was a federal bill passed just recently that requires all businesses as well as the Military to accept homeschooling as a viable graduate program. There are many laws being passed nation wide that are making it easier and easier each and every day to place our children in private schools or in homeschooling. The only excuse that is left to parents is that they are too lazy to uphold their responsibilty as parents to insure that their children are properly educated.

Parents need to stand up and continue to do so both as Christians and parents to uphold their responsibilities to their children and in so doing, to God.

[RhondaR]

Brother Roger,

I am a bit upset, though in places I agree with you.

However, you have not taken into account single mothers or fathers or even grandparents who are the sole source of income for many children.

Homeschooling is quite out of the question and certainly private or  private christian schooling in most cases.


I do not mean to offend you, but you've obviously not been down the road many of us single parents have been.


I posted the site so that parents could be aware of what they're children are being taught and what many of us also were taught.


I think that it just may benefit many of us to understand where our secular learning may have created problems with knowing how to seperate the "worldly" thinking and the christian thinking mixed up in many of us.

Perhaps I'm wrong, but perhaps I'm not either.

Respectfully,

Rhonda

[Soldier4Christ]

Hi sister, You have the right to disagree and that's ok. I certainly did not intend to upset you over this but rather to point out that as parents we are in fact held responsible by God for what our children are taught whether it is in public, private or homeschooling. That is a Biblical fact.

I also want to explain that I have thought of single parent families. I assist families every day in homeschooling their children in which the family is a single parent family. Yes it may be more difficult than a two parent family where only one parent works but it still can be done. It also can be done by the two parent family in which both parents must work in order to barely survive.

I posted the site so that parents could be aware of what they're children are being taught and what many of us also were taught.

I fully understand that sister. I was posting in an attempt to give alternative solutions to the problem of what our children are being taught in the public schools of today. Our children need a solid upbringing in the Lord and that is something that they definitely will not get in our public schools.

[RhondaR]

I thank you for the response. God bless you for your help of those families. I would that there were more out there who were as you are instead of condemning families who do not have someone helping them to find the resources.

And there are many brother.

God Bless you,

Rhonda