[Truth Addict]

Great link! Gatto surely has the credentials to make observations on what is wrong with public education. I'll be reading his online book as time permits.

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Buy it; it's the best $30 you'll ever spend. You'll also get a cassette tape of a speech, A Short, Angry History of Modern Schooling, in which he condenses the book on American schooling into one hour of smash-your-teeth quotes from the main players in American forced schooling. Modern American forced schooling is the creation and playtoy of private corporate foundations, primarily the Rockefeller Foundation and Carnegie Corporation. Our mass economy depends on the type of controllable, ignorant, dependent serfs that their underlings have helped reduce Americans to.