The information revealed in Gatto’s work should have hit national scandal level, long ago.
For a brief encapsulation, his “History Tour” is excellent:
http://johntaylorgatto.com/historytour/history1.htm
It was interesting to me to read about how, as a school teacher in New York, Gatto had to skirt, bend, or even break the established policies to facilitate the actual education of his students.
That from his book “A Different Kind of Teacher...”
http://www.amazon.com/Different-Kind-Teacher-American-Schooling/dp/1893163407
Speaking of Gatto, freeper vikingd00d’s Dewey quotation is not found in Gatto’s 400-page “Underground History of American Education,” either.
Until we can cite a source from the works of Dewey, I will assume that the source is Ann Coulter, per the citation from freeper St_Thomas_Aquinas.