Education QOTD
2001-07-30 04:45:26+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
From John Taylor Gatto's book The Underground History of American Education:
Ninety-nine [students] out of a hundred are automata, careful to walk in prescribed paths, careful to follow the prescribed custom. This is not an accident but the result of substantial education, which, scientifically defined, is the subsumption of the individual.
William Torrey Harris in The Philosophy of Education (1906)
I'm only a little way through the book, but if you view it as a rant by someone who loves and feels passionately about its subject, and you get through some of the semi-conspiracist sounds in the first chapter, it's a fantastic indictment of state-run and compulsory education.