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The Underground History of American Education
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the quote two posts up is from Gatto's book, right? i have to get that.
Antigen:
Something I keep seeing vaguely, but have a hard time describing. . .
--- Quote ---It?s important to keep in mind that no harm was meant by any designers or managers of this great project. It was only the law of nature as they perceived it, working progressively as capitalism itself did for the ultimate good of all. The real force behind school effort came from true believers of many persuasions, linked together mainly by their belief that family and church were retrograde institutions standing in the way of progress. Far beyond the myriad practical details and economic considerations there existed a kind of grail-quest, an idea capable of catching the imagination of dreamers and firing the blood of zealots.
The entire academic community here and abroad had been Darwinized and Galtonized by this time and to this contingent school seemed an instrument for managing evolutionary destiny. In Thorndike?s memorable words, conditions for controlled selective breeding had to be set up before the new American industrial proletariat "took things into their own hands."
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Fresh beauty opens one's eyes wherever it is really seen, but the very abundance and completeness of the common beauty that besets our steps prevents its being absorbed and appreciated. It is a good thing, therefore, to make short excursions now and then to the bottom of the sea among dulse and coral, or up among the clouds on mountain-tops, or in balloons, or even to creep like worms into dark holes and caverns underground, not only to learn something of what is going on in those out-of-the-way places, but to see better what the sun sees on our return to common everyday beauty.
-- John Muir
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Antigen:
Fucking mind blowing!
--- Quote ---Gatto
H.G. Wells, best known of all early Fabians, once wrote of the Fabian project:
--- Quote ---Wells
The political world of the Open Conspiracy must weaken, efface, incorporate and supersede existing governments....The character of the Open Conspiracy will then be plainly displayed. It will be a world religion. This large, loose assimilatory mass of groups and societies will definitely and obviously attempt to swallow up the entire population of the world and become a new human community....The immediate task before all people, a planned World State, is appearing at a thousand points of light [but]...generations of propaganda and education may have to precede it. (emphasis added)
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http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/9f.htm
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--- Quote ---Radley Balko
Most troubling, however, is the considerable and continuing political clout of Straight, Inc.?s founders. Former President Bush once shot a television commercial for DFAF, and designated the Semblers? program as one of his ?thousand points of light.?
http://www.theagitator.com/straightfox.php
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The more I read of this, the more it all seems to dovetail w/ what I know.
I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.
--Clarence Darrow
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Ginger Warbis ~ Antigen
Drug war POW
Seed `71 - `80
Straight, Sarasota
10/80 - 10/82
Anonymity Anonymous
return undef() if /coercion/i;
Antigen:
--- Quote ---Gatto:
:cool: The last lesson school teaches I?ll call the glass house effect: It teaches how hopeless it is to resist because you are always watched. There is no place to hide. Nor should you want to. Your avoidance behavior is actually a signal you should be watched even more closely than the others. Privacy is a thought crime. School sees to it that there is no private time, no private space, no minute uncommanded, no desk free from search, no bruise not inspected by medical policing or the counseling arm of thought patrols.
The most sensitive children I had each year knew on some level what was really going on. But we choked the treacherous breath out of them until they acknowledged they depended on us for their futures. Hard-core cases were remanded to adjustment agencies where they converted themselves into manageable cynics.
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I think I'd like to discuss w/ Mr. Gatto some of those adjustment agents. Think he might be interested?
the war on drugs is but one manifestation, albeit a very dramatic one, of the great moral contests of our age -- the struggle between two diametrically opposed images of man: between man as responsible moral agent, 'condemned' to freedom, benefiting and suffering from the consequences of his actions; and man as irresponsible child, unfit for freedom, 'protected' from its risks by agents of the omnicompetent state.
--Thomas Szasz
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BuzzKill:
I expect he'd be very interested.
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