Most experts would agree that the public schooling system -- at least in the US -- is in dire straits. High dropout rates, failing test scores and pupil apathy and truancy are frequently blamed on lack of funding or poorly trained and unmotivated teachers. What if this isn't the case? What if the very existence of compulsory education is the problem? The founders of the public schooling system did not set out to create highly skilled, creative and competent individuals. They set out to create obedient workers who won't question their plight. Seen in this light, the public school system is a great success.
Join us on this episode of The Health and Wellness Show as we explore the topic of public education, its history and detriments as well as alternatives to keep your child and yourself -- if you're a product of the public school system -- from becoming a brainwashed zombie.
Stay tuned, as always, for Zoya's Pet Health segment where the topic will be natural sedatives for travelling pets.
Referenced links:
The Underground History of American Education - John Taylor Gatto
The Ultimate History Lesson - Interview with John Taylor Gatto
John Taylor Gatto's personal website
Teacher slams French education in suicide note
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The ugly truth about the American school systemRunning Time: 01:46:49
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when they took out out into the hallway at Masonville Elementary inside the beltway of Washington D.C. and told us to duck and cover or whatever I would faithfully end their instructions without fail by saying "and kiss your ass goodbye" (for which I was routinely severely punished) because the whole notion of survival that close to the capital was obviously a lie. I really couldn't help myself. I laughed every time knowing that they were going to punish me. And when they told us in fifth grade that if we back-ended a car and drove away, the police could tell how much we weighed and find us if we by simply removing paint left by your vehicle on the vehicle you hit, I looked at the teacher dumbfounded and questioned the validity of the whole lecture. I got D's and F's all throughout public school, and yet now the Father is showing me all of what is to come.
Our reality has been manufactured for us as sure as the movie The Matrix suggests. Or as MBE said, "Success of error is failure in Truth." Nothing is as it seems. We live in a world of opposites.