by Berit Kjos History keeps repeating itself, but few heed its warnings. If our leaders did, they would know that today’s massive attempt to transform our culture by nationalizing education will bring repression, not freedom. They would see that the manipulative strategies of Mastery Learning will create human puppets, not independent thinkers. In spite...
Institutional Schooling Must Be Destroyed
by John Taylor Gatto The easiest way to make America better is to stop spending enormous treasure and human effort on forced schooling of the unprivileged young. By “unprivileged” I mean the bottom 95-90% of our population, not the ghettoized poor. Public education, as it is called, is actually the most fantastic intellectual confidence...
How public education cripples our kids, and why
by John Taylor Gatto I taught for thirty years in some of the worst schools in Manhattan, and in some of the best, and during that time I became an expert in boredom. Boredom was everywhere in my world, and if you asked the kids, as I often did, why they felt so bored,...
Homeschooling – How Does it Work?
If you’ve ever thought about homeschooling or just wondered what people do that homeschool, here is a basic outline. 1. Parents decide to homeschool their child or children. They use their own resources or purchase books that they want to use to educate their child. Some states have online programs that can be used...
Harm in the School System
by Shaun Kerry, M.D. As a social psychiatrist, I examine society much like a doctor examines a patient. One of the most troubling ailments that I encounter is our school system, which – without ever realizing it – harms the majority of our students. It is my belief that our school system is the...
Public school is like prison
by John Taylor Gatto My wife doesn’t allow a television in our home, so when I’m traveling alone, as I often must, temptation sometimes overwhelms me and I find myself indiscriminately channel-surfing for hours, searching for what — I don’t know, perhaps a football game even in March or April, May, June, July, August....
