John Taylor Gatto on Education 1/5

Follow up interview of John Taylor Gatto from December 7, 2007. Check my favorites for the first interview from November 28, 2007. There is a third interview as well.

John Taylor Gatto (author of The Underground History of Education (which is free on his website)) speaks with Alex Jones about the who, what, and why of the foundations of the system of education we enjoy today in the United States.

From the Table of Contents on Gatto's webpage:
Chapter Four
I Quit, I Think

I lived through the great transformation which turned schools from often useful places into laboratories of state experimentation with the lives of children, a form of pornography masquerading as pedagogical science. All theories of child-rearing talk in averages, but the evidence of your own eyes and ears tells you that average men and women don't really exist except as a statistical conceit.

Chapter Seven
The Prussian Connection

In 1935, at the University of Chicago's experimental school where John Dewey had once held sway, Howard C. Hill, head of the social science department, published an inspirational textbook called The Life and Work of the Citizen. The title page clearly shows four cartoon hands symbolizing law, order, science, and the trades interlocked to form a perfect swastika. By 1935, Prussian pattern and Prussian goals had embedded themselves so deeply into the vitals of institutional schooling that hardly a soul noticed the traditional purposes of the enterprise were being abandoned.
First interview at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1kgSlLawyQ
Third Interview
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n67XJ9tppSw

Five parts:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Jzc7Js4wqQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=599teRUIAl4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fjj2es73Nz8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHzp7bzXrFk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Snq9TGQGNtw

http://www.johntaylorgatto.com
http://www.ronpaul2008.com
http://www.infowars.com
http://www.prisonplanet.com

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[MaxLibertas]

This guy is amazing! How is he not a household name? I'm sending these youtube vids to everyone I know!!!

[Badwolf182]

Gatto is FANTASTIC!

another hero in the undoing of the old disorder!

Thanx for postin....

u can his other books from 'scribd' just type his name

[TheVportal]

Knowledge is indeed power. But it greater in force when it is shared. Ur assumption that his theory is flawed is incorrect but also correct. This depends from what angle one is looking. The family structure of TODAY cannot b proven to be a better institution but a family that swayed not that far off becomes possible. There was a time when the father was not the father and the son was not the son. Let him who has ears to hear, let him hear. @SoulofaPianoMan

[not2tees]

Gatto should be on the cover of Time, by rights. Instead of Nelson Mandela or the Dalai Lama, nothing against Nelson or the Dalai, you understand, but Gatto is up there with those guys, or he will be once the media come back to post-corporate life.

[FlashVirus]

@NecroButcher91

This is a very very good point.

[NecroButcher91]

@MsLincolnsghost I'd be happy to have you know that I am not nor have I ever been an abused child, and that your leap to that conclusion betrays a stereotyping and complete misunderstanding of the real victims of this phenomenon. You'd do well to know that for the thousands of years of history over which the institution of the family was being developed, alternatives were not being actively tried and tested, but discauraged and outlawed by the dominant social order. So educate yourself.

[MsLincolnsghost]

@NecroButcher91 You obviously have never read Gatto's book. You seem like an abused child. Maybe in your view communist indoctrination is superior to a warm and loving family, but thousands of years of history proves nothing to you. You seem to know many things, none of which are true.

[C0lv1n]

To NecroButcher91

Parents are suppose to give us as you put hell because we are smart but ignorant! We need that type of guidance. What we don't need is a government telling us to be dumb and that we must listen to them!

[2le3]

Where is written that John Dewey stated or wrote "it's a crime to teach children how to read" ?

[NecroButcher91]

@NecroButcher91 Actually, the refutation of one position could constitute de facto proof of another, but if and only if there was no possible way for both positions to be true simultaneously. This is not the case for this argument, however; schools and families could (for the sake of argument) actually both be bad institutions.

[NecroButcher91]

@AFRIKTODAY Look, the point I tried to make in my original post is that while Gatto argues that the family is a more ethical and effective instrument for raising children than the school, he offers little evidence in support of this claim. His books enumerate the many failures of the public school, but they do little to prove that the family is a superior institution. The refutation of one position does not constitute de facto proof of another, and that is why his argument for families is flawed