John Taylor Gatto kept winning “Teacher of the Year”, but he realized nothing was ever going to change for the better. So, he quit governmentally-mismanaged “education” and made a great case for homeschooling.
Russel Kirk described the book this way:
- “[T]he captains of industry and government explicitly wanted an educational system that would maintain social order by teaching us just enough to get by but not enough so that we could think for ourselves, question the sociopolitical order, or communicate articulately.”
It’s called “The Underground History of American Education: A School Teacher’s Intimate Investigation Into the Problem of Modern Schooling” and you can find the entire book, chapter by chapter, free on LRC:
Chapter 1: The Way It Used To Be
Chapter 2: An Angry Look At Modern Schooling
Chapter 3: Eyeless In Gaza
Chapter 4: I Quit, I Think
Chapter 5: True Believers and the Unspeakable Chautauqua
Chapter 6: The Lure of Utopia
Chapter 7: The Prussian Connection
Chapter 8: A Coal-Fired Dream World
Chapter 9: The Cult of Scientific Management
Chapter 10: My Green River
Chapter 11: The Crunch
Chapter 12: Daughters of the Barons of Runnemede
Chapter 13: The Empty Child
Chapter 14: Absolute Absolution
Chapter 15: The Psychopathology of Everyday Schooling
Chapter 16: A Conspiracy Against Ourselves
Chapter 17: The Politics of Schooling
Chapter 18: Breaking Out of the Trap
Chapter 2: An Angry Look At Modern Schooling
Chapter 3: Eyeless In Gaza
Chapter 4: I Quit, I Think
Chapter 5: True Believers and the Unspeakable Chautauqua
Chapter 6: The Lure of Utopia
Chapter 7: The Prussian Connection
Chapter 8: A Coal-Fired Dream World
Chapter 9: The Cult of Scientific Management
Chapter 10: My Green River
Chapter 11: The Crunch
Chapter 12: Daughters of the Barons of Runnemede
Chapter 13: The Empty Child
Chapter 14: Absolute Absolution
Chapter 15: The Psychopathology of Everyday Schooling
Chapter 16: A Conspiracy Against Ourselves
Chapter 17: The Politics of Schooling
Chapter 18: Breaking Out of the Trap
You can also get it on Amazon here.