Very insightful and comprehensive. I've been saying these things in my own circles for years, and it's good to know that there are other people who understand just how deleterious the current public education regime is on such a profound and expansive level. I know in particular the issues I (and most of my generation had or has) suffered from - and inability to say no, defend myself, and always defer to authority, no matter how abusive it was, leading to some very bad experiences with jobs and bosses - came directly from my time in school. When I look back on it, it's shocking to think how inhumane it is to make children sit in one spot for eight plus hours for two thirds of the year with minimal breaks - almost as inhumane as making an adult, or anyone sit in one place for eight plus hours with minimal breaks, but I suppose if you had a normal childhood as it should be lived and went into the cycle of corporate abuse - sorry, the "working world" of corporate America, you'd probably never be able to function, so they kind of have to get you while you're young, y'know?
Thank you. Im glad more and more people are beginning to get it. Unfortunately, it’s too slow. Most are too hopeless traumatized that they can never challenge their cherished beliefs. The most optimistic we can be is hoping for change down the road of several generations from now.
School teaches us the important lesson of how to sit and patiently wait while some idiot natters on about shit you already know. Mute acceptance is the goal.
Excellent piece. It's a shame and a crime that homeschooling is illegal in most other countries (I'm in the US), but it tells you what you need to know about the state and its priorities.
Very insightful and comprehensive. I've been saying these things in my own circles for years, and it's good to know that there are other people who understand just how deleterious the current public education regime is on such a profound and expansive level. I know in particular the issues I (and most of my generation had or has) suffered from - and inability to say no, defend myself, and always defer to authority, no matter how abusive it was, leading to some very bad experiences with jobs and bosses - came directly from my time in school. When I look back on it, it's shocking to think how inhumane it is to make children sit in one spot for eight plus hours for two thirds of the year with minimal breaks - almost as inhumane as making an adult, or anyone sit in one place for eight plus hours with minimal breaks, but I suppose if you had a normal childhood as it should be lived and went into the cycle of corporate abuse - sorry, the "working world" of corporate America, you'd probably never be able to function, so they kind of have to get you while you're young, y'know?
Thank you. Im glad more and more people are beginning to get it. Unfortunately, it’s too slow. Most are too hopeless traumatized that they can never challenge their cherished beliefs. The most optimistic we can be is hoping for change down the road of several generations from now.
https://vonwriting.substack.com/p/john-taylor-gatto-1
Will definitely read this. Thank you.
It’s the first in a series of sets of quotes from him.
I wish I had used some of his quotes in this article.
School teaches us the important lesson of how to sit and patiently wait while some idiot natters on about shit you already know. Mute acceptance is the goal.
Unfortunately, this is spot on
Excellent piece. It's a shame and a crime that homeschooling is illegal in most other countries (I'm in the US), but it tells you what you need to know about the state and its priorities.
Precisely. The state is evil. Schooling is child abuse. Objectively.
Absolutely brilliant peice!
Thank you. I hope it helps us make a difference.
Stefan Molyneux 2.0
Only Twenty Years Late Version.
You mean Spooner, Mises, Rothbard, Hoppe 2.0 only a century late version?
Oh. You're even more tardy than I'd initially wagered.