We Must Keep Your Children Stupid

Want to know all there is to know about the public educational system? Wonder why Johnny has so much trouble learning? Feel like the schools are "dumbing down". You're right! And it's nothing new. The truth is, the public educational system was designed to make & keep your child stupid.

So many times we hear adults (including myself) say "school isn't what it use to be" and while it may be true that we learned more in 1970 than they are in 2006, the truth is that historically the entire reason our educational system was created was to keep the working class the working class. After all, how can there be an "upper class" without a "lower class"?

For instance, in 1888, the Senate Committee on Education was getting jittery about the localized, non-standardized, non-mandatory form of education that was actually teaching children to read at advanced levels, to comprehend history, and (egads!) to think for themselves. The committee's report stated,

"We believe that education is one of the principal causes of
discontent of late years manifesting itself among the laboring
classes."

In other words, the more educated people became, the more discontent with having to settle for what they were given. Several years later, President Woodrow Wilson would echo these sentiments in a speech to businessmen:

"We want one class to have a liberal education. We want another class, a very much larger class of necessity, to forego the privilege of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks."

Fortunately for you and me, there is John Taylor Ghatto. Gatto was voted the New York City Teacher of the Year three times and the New York State Teacher of the Year in 1991. But he became disillusioned with schools. He saw the way they enforce conformity, kill the natural creativity of children, squash inquisitiveness and love of learning that every little child has at the beginning. So he began to dig into the roots of America's educational system. He's written an entire book which you can read online. Read the book The Underground History of American Education.