The Underground History of American Education

http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/underground/toc1.htm

Truth is, a lot of the reasons we find ourselves in our current condition as a country are explained in that book.

Newflash: US public education is almost complete garbage. Most only invest in it under duress via taxes.

Also, from your language I going to guess you are highly partisan. Looking at the (D) or (R) next to a name and blindly marking it possibly the #1 reason for the sorry state of the US today.

Vote on issues and individuals, not damn parties.

- It is a good thing that the united States is a constitutional republic.

@ chris “Investing in education gets a good ROI. For example in my case the gov spent about $50K on my K-12 education. Over the next 40 years I will return about a million dollars back in all told taxes and fees. And my job isn’t one to brag about.”

-However, if you believe in individual rights you would believe that public education is a bad thing because you are stealing someone else s money to get your k-12 education*. It would be much better if the education sector was completely made up of private schools. In fact, it isn’t even that expensive on a per child basis. To pay a teacher 35k a year you would only need a classroom of 30 kids to pay $129 per month each**. Also, if you cannot afford to annually pay $1166 per child then maybe you should not be having kids. This is called personal responsibility which is as you know the other half (or tails side) of freedom. Also, if the schools were privately based parents would have a lot more pull in school curriculum because if they didn’t like what was being taught they could just take their child elsewhere and the school would lose money.

* Schools now days seem to place a huge emphasis on socializing people to want to be/spend like everyone else and not a whole lot on knowledge and self-sustainability. I actually spent most of high school not learning because most of what was being taught had been taught in grade school (at a slightly lower level), was redundant (learning the same stuff in a class three or four different times), or was busy work (crossword puzzles, word finds, 100 mathematics problems out of a text book when one would suffice, writing summarizes, memorizing facts or foreign words for tests, etc).

** the building cost isn’t factored in because it is a one time purchase that in a lot of cases has already been built using tax money. If a new building was needed it could be built using a community fund raiser kind of like how communities used to build churches and private schools in the early 1900′s.

Consciencely/unconsciencely – passively or actively we all contribute to government/corporations at large in todays world.

Even if you walk naked everywhere, you contribute, because no matter where you walk that place is owned by some person/place or thing. So in essence just by walking on a dirt road you are actually giving your personal ok to the system at large for providing that road

If you walk naked on your property, you still contribute by the property taxes you pay on it.

If you go and get a free shirt from a church clothing give-away, you are giving your personal ok to the system set up that provides that church with the opportunity to give away that shirt. Not to speak of the distance corporation that provided that shirt in the first place or the cloth for it.

the same people that sign up for mortgages that they don’t understand…

and the same people that don’t know Hawaii is a state…

or maybe the people who think the earth is only 10,000 years old and humans lived with dinosaurs….

You’re kidding right?? I don’t know what your flavor of republicans looks like where you live but around here they cut funding for education whenever they get the chance.

Investing in education gets a good ROI. For example in my case the gov spent about $50K on my K-12 education. Over the next 40 years I will return about a million dollars back in all told taxes and fees. And my job isn’t one to brag about.

I would think republicans could figure this out because supposedly they own lots of the businesses in this country?

each transaction, all adding up…
just remember, you get to vote everyday with your dollars and how you spend your time…. it’s true. Maybe we don’t get it perfect all at once or right away, but this is the direction we all have to move in.

I guess the market didn’t react the way I thought because CNBC didn’t mention this theory on TV today . . .

Actually, land that you own can not be taxed. It also cannot have any mortgages or other liens on it. It is owned by you through a treaty with the united States in the form of a land patent. Alas, our nice government decided that true property ownership was a bad thing around the 1930′s and thus it is almost impossible to get recognized land patents any more.

@Maus
I agree with your comment:
“Alas, nothing short of a revolution is going to bring about such circumstances — at least until after the collapse.”
It is a bit like putting on your seatbelt after you’ve crashed into a wall.

” majority of people do not want to live like the 1600s,”

It doesn’t matter what the majority is doing, but rather what you PERSONALLY are doing. I think that’s the whole point of this blog, tbh.