5/8/2023 0 Comments John gatto dumbing us downThe ecology of “good” schooling depends on perpetuating dissatisfaction, just as the commercial economy depends on the same fertilizer. Much of modern law, medicine, and engineering would go too, as well as the clothing business and schoolteaching, unless a guaranteed supply of helpless people continued to pour out of our schools each year.Ī monthly report, impressive in its provision, is sent into a student’s home to elicit approval or mark exactly, down to a single percentage point, how dissatisfied with the child a parent should be. Restaurants, the prepared food industry, and a whole host of other assorted food services would be drastically downsized if people returned to making their own meals rather than depending on strangers to plant, pick, chop, and cook for them. Commercial entertainment of all sorts, including television, would wither as people learned again how to make their own fun. Counselors and therapists would look on in horror as the supply of psychic invalids vanished. Think of what might fall apart if children weren’t trained to be dependent: the social services could hardly survive-they would vanish, I think, into the recent historical limbo out of which they arose. It is hardly an exaggeration to say that our entire economy depends upon this lesson being learned. Good people wait for an expert to tell them what to do.
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