[In a document called the Behavioral Science Teacher Education Project, the U.S. Department of Education] outlined teaching reforms to be forced on the country after 1967 ... [it] identified the future as one 'in which a small elite' will control all important matters ... Children are made to see, through school experiences, that their classmates are so cruel and irresponsible, so inadequate to the task of self-discipline, and so ignorant that they need to be controlled and regulated for society's good. ... It is sobering to think of mass schooling as a vast demonstration project of human inadequacy, but that is at least one of its functions.
~ John Taylor Gatto,
"Some Lessons from the Underground History of American Education"
in Everything You Know Is Wrong
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