Our form of compulsory schooling is an invention of the state of Massachusetts around 1850. It was resisted - sometimes with guns - by an estimated eighty per cent of the Massachusetts population, the last outpost in Barnstable on Cape Cod not surrendering its children until the 1880s when the area was seized by militia and children marched to school under guard. the Prussian people that the party was over, that the nation would have to shape up through a new Utopian institution of forced schooling in which everyone would learn to take orders. So the world got compulsion schooling at the end of a state bayonet for the first time in human history; modern forced schooling started in Prussia in 1819 with a clear vision of what centralized schools could deliver: 1.Obedient soldiers to the army; 2.Obedient workers to the mines; 3.Well subordinated civil servants to government; 4.Well subordinated clerks to industry 5.Citizens who thought alike about major issues. The first lesson I teach is: Stay in the class where you belong. The second lesson I teach kids is to turn on and off like a light switch. The third lesson I teach you is to surrender your will to a predestined chain of command. The fourth lesson I teach is that only I determine what curriculum you will study. In lesson five I teach that your self-respect should depend on an observers measure of your worth. In lesson six I teach children that they are being watched. The seventh lesson I teach is that you cant hide. Ten qualities were offered as essential to successfully adapting to the rapidly changing world of work. See how many of those you think are regularly taught in the schools of your city or state: 1) The ability to define problems without a guide. 2) The ability to ask hard questions which challenge prevailing assumptions. 3) The ability to work in teams without guidance. 4) The ability to work absolutely alone. 5) The ability to persuade others that your course is the right one. 6) The ability to discuss issues and techniques in public with an eye to reaching decisions about policy. 7) The ability to conceptualize and reorganize information into new patterns. 8) The ability to pull what you need quickly from masses of irrelevant data. 9) The ability to think inductively, deductively, and dialectically. 10) The ability to attack problems heuristically. noogenesis/game_theory/Gatto/Gatto.html
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