From: Dehede011@aol.com
Date: Thu Aug 15 2002 - 10:15:31 MDT
In a message dated 8/15/2002 12:45:08 AM Central Standard Time,
lcorbin@tsoft.com writes: The picture painted in the minds of the readers of
your paragraph above (which is a good summary of Gatto IMO) is that of men in
powerful positions deliberately changing the American educational system,
such as it was, to suit their own long term goals, namely, replacing the
self-educated shopkeepers, craftsmen, and small farmers with less educated
factory workers.
Maybe one of the problems we are having is that we are talking about what
someone thought someone else said about John Taylor Gatto's book instead of
reading the book.
If you read certain parts it sounds like he might be talking about
some sort of conspiracy. If you read the beginning of his book John Taylor
Gotto argues very persuasively against any conspiracy theory.
Ron h.
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