Reading another crazy, life changing book.

John Taylor Gatto's Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Agenda of Compulsory Schooling.

Not done with it yet, but I AGREE SO MUCH WITH WITH SO MUCH OF WHAT IS BEING SAID!!!!!!!

Our public schools are "preparing" our children for real life by disengaging them from their real motivations for learning and in their place creating false external motivators, obliterating any hope of a real community and setting up a false, oft times cruel social system, laying the student's well being on the sacrificial altar of teachers' job security and unions, and constantly trying to convince us that the only way to fix this fundamentally deranged system is to pour more money into it.

The sad thing is, for the most part we believe it and have responded readily with constant cries to the government for more money. As a matter of fact, they have convinced us so fully that we need to fund their failing system that we give politicians the rotten tomato treatment if they don't seem sufficiently concerned about taking money out of our pockets to give to this whacked system.

We're being hoodwinked, mega.



In addition: This is a note to myself to start buying amazing books in triplicate. Actually just in double so I always have one to give way if I need to, but I wanted to say triplicate.