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	Texas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Its rapid economic development stimulated by these resources and its vast size have made Texas an American legend.
		Underground water supplies are also widely used for irrigation.
		Soil conservation and the protection of Texas's wildlife are also of primary concern.
	www.thecitiesof.com /texas/escape (3302 words)

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		The American ideal of the citizen—responsible, self-educated, individualistic, and frugal, insisting on the right to be heard on all public matters, great and small—was archaic, outmoded, and unsuitable to the modern industrial civilization being established in America.
		The citizen that emerged from the American republic could not be relied upon to acquiesce to the necessities of a highly regimented industrial system; there are too many things more important to such a person—family, community, and the love of freedom—that trump the demands of the assembly line.
		The American character also had a deeply ingrained disrespect for authority of all kinds, an attitude that was unappreciated by an elite that was becoming fabulously wealthy in the “golden age” of the 1890s.
	www.jacksonprogressive.com /issues/education/GattoReview.html (2705 words)

	Archive \| May 14, 2001 \| Why parents and taxpayers have no say in education
		Writing in "The Underground History of American Education", John Taylor Gatto revealed the infrastructure of an enterprise that, by the end of 1999, involved 75.5 million people out of a total population of 275 million.
		Circling the education establishment is the "knowledge industry" that includes colleges and universities, teacher-training colleges, researchers, testing organizations, non-print materials producers, textbook publishers, and the "knowledge" brokers, subsystem designers.
		The broad-based knowledge of the liberal arts, history, literature, and science, necessary to make informed decisions, is so lacking that entire generations of Americans are at risk of knowing little of what they require to maintain and protect the nation.
	www.enterstageright.com /archive/articles/0501sayeducation.htm (953 words)

	Arkansas Communities
		A long history teaches us that children were far more educated when education was the business of the people that loved them most (i.e.
		He too, was classically educated in grammar, logic and rhetoric and by 1914, his institute had produced more self-made millionaires than Yale, Harvard and Princeton combined.
		Home educators attend seminars, listen to lectures, belong to support groups….we are sanctified daily by having our children with us 24/7, witnessing the good, the bad and the ugly in us (and we don’t go around moaning about a day off from the children).
	www.arkansascommunities.com /historyarticle.htm (1605 words)

	The Underground History of American Education - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		ISBN 0945700040) is a critique of the U.S. education system by John Taylor Gatto.
		Gatto argues that educational strategies promoted by government and industry leaders for over a century included the creation of a system that keeps real power in the hands of very few people.
		Underground History isn’t a history proper, but a collection of materials toward a history, embedded in a personal essay analyzing why mass compulsion schooling is unreformable.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Underground_History_of_American_Education (305 words)

	John Taylor Gatto's The Underground History of American Education - By Cathy Duffy
		John Taylor Gatto’s long-awaited book, The Underground History Of American Education, is published by Oxford Village Press and on the market.
		To accomplish this goal, scientists and educational zealots joined forces, with the financial and power backing of the giant foundations, to design an education system that views people as human capital to be psychologically manipulated into desired patterns of behavior.
		Education became, according to the definition of the Federal Education department, “a means to achieve important economic and social goals of a national character.”
	www.rit.edu /~cma8660/mirror/www.johntaylorgatto.com/underground/review_duffy1.htm (492 words)

	PUT A STAKE THROUGH ITS HEART... DON'T FUND THE FEDERAL EDUCATION SYSTEM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Education Secretary, Rod Paige, said bluntly, "We can no longer use the social experiences or conditions of children as the excuse for the low performances of children.
		When Education Secretary Paige addressed the annual convention of the National Education Association earlier this month, he told the nation's largest teachers union that competition in education is inevitable.
		Generations of early Americans were either home-schooled or received their education in one-room schoolhouses.
	www.etherzone.com /2001/carb072001.shtml (1144 words)

	The "Dumbing Down" of American Education - RMHI
		American students' embarrassing ignorance of world geography, basic science and math, and declining literacy is the profitable subject of government committees, philanthropic foundations, corporate think tanks, armies of consultants, and educational bureaucracies, who all continually demand more resources and money even as the problem worsens.
		Public education was designed specifically to diminish students' capacity for critical thinking, to diminish literacy, and to stamp out any dangerous signs of independence and creativity, which might otherwise contribute unpredictable and burdensome aspects to the task of corporate management and planning.
		It is important to distinguish the contemporary American educational system from public school systems in other nations that educate productive citizens who contribute to their nation's strength and well-being.
	www.rmhiherbal.org /review/2003-4.html (5029 words)

	Cemeteries, Graveyards, Burying Grounds
		Connecticut Gravestone Network, organized in 1995, to educate the public on how important old graveyards and cemeteries are to history, and that gravestone carving is a valuable art form.
		Save Southern Cemeteries, to educate people as to the dangers facing cemeteries (development, neglect, vandalism); locate forgotten cemeteries; transcribe as many cemeteries as possible; prevent the destruction of cemeteries in the South; encourage legislation to protect cemeteries; encourage community groups to adopt neglected cemeteries.
		Washington State Cemetery Association, to research, protect, restore, and preserve old and abandoned cemeteries in Washington state, to maintain their history, and to provide education and awareness of old and abandoned cemeteries and their care to the public.
	www.potifos.com /cemeteries.html (1960 words)

	Education World ® Schoool Issues: Wire Side Chats: Notes from the Education Underground (An Education World ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		He worked as a scriptwriter for films; an advertising writer; a jewelry designer; a songwriter for the American Society of Composers, Authors and Songwriters; and a cab driver before he became a teacher, a job he held for 30 years.
		John Taylor Gatto Gatto's new book, The Underground History of American Education, is available on the site in a special pre-publication edition.
		Topics covered include the origins of compulsory education, the nine assumptions of modern schooling, and why we need less school, not more.
	www.educationworld.com /a_issues/chat/chat147.shtml (1451 words)

	Education History Revised: Two Books Reviewed
		Gatto is a hero of the Alternative Education network, which explains the use of the word "underground" in the title.
		Each author examines the popular vision of modern education, which is that all children, regardless of their status in life, are entitled to a thorough academic education; it is not something that is reserved for the children of the elite class.
		He explores why education has evolved in the way it has, presenting his view on a number of social issues that he thinks are relevant to evolution of modern education, while challenging many orthodoxies of modern society.
	www.strugglingteens.com /opinion/educationhistory.html (563 words)

	CBC News Indepth: Education (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Since I wrote that I've travelled a million-and-a-half miles in 50 states and eight foreign countries and I've come to the conclusion that the trap is built in to the very label we put on the thing.
		The piggish manners of school children, which are encouraged by any number of structures in schooling, in fact are a good way to keep people in their place.
		One of your beliefs is that education should involve sending kids into their community to experience the real world.
	www.cbc.ca /news/bigpicture/education/gatto.html (3039 words)

	Teacher of the Year Warns: Public Schools Destroy Democracy
		He explains how this happened in what he calls "not a history proper, but a collection of materials toward a history." It is an enormous work, nearly four hundred textbook-size pages that must amount to a quarter of a million words.
		American schools are not meant to "educate" at all, Gatto says.
		The Shaws say that public schools fail to educate African-American children, and point to a report by the Home School Legal Defense Association that shows less of a disparity in achievement tests between whites and fls who are home-schooled.
	www.massnews.com /past_issues/2000/10_Oct/1000gatt.htm (1554 words)

	Untitled Document
		MC The general education level prevailing from the Revolutionary War to the War for Southern Independence amazes me. I have a BA, several years of graduate school, studied in Germany for a year, and am a pretty well educated person by today's standard.
		In a history of the DuPonts, I found that one of the early DuPonts had written back to France in 1808 that 98% of the American population was literate.
		Obviously, the goal of public education is to mass produce a mass consumption society, a society that does not commit the heinous sins of leadership and completion.
	www.biblicalexaminer.org /hs200407.html (6584 words)

	The Underground History of American Education -- October 2000 Education Reporter
		The Underground History of American Education -- October 2000 Education Reporter
		The Underground History of American Education, John Taylor Gatto, The Oxford Village Press, 2000, 390 pps., $30 Veteran schoolteacher John Taylor Gatto has written a riveting, lively, yet scholarly history of the evolution of compulsory schooling in America, peppered with fascinating insights gleaned from 30 years' experience in the classroom.
		He explains how schooling has been transformed from creating "independent producers" and thinkers into churning out dumbed-down members of "the workforce."
	www.eagleforum.org /educate/2000/oct00/oct2000-book.shtml (253 words)

	Education
		Our whole system of raising and educating children provides the power-hungry with a ready-made railway network they can use to reach the destination of their choice.
		To take control of education in America with the intent and purpose of utterly and completely destroying it.
		And they found that was the most important one of all, because, by training the children to accept these other monopolies [and] never question authority.
	www.whale.to /b/education.html (725 words)

	Gatto article
		By 1917, the major administrative jobs in American schooling were under control of a group referred to in the press of that day as "the Education Trust." The first meeting of this trust included representatives of Rockefeller, Carnegie, Harvard, Stanford, the University of Chicago, and the National Education Association.
		School histories commonly treat Harris as an old-fashioned defender of high academic standards, but this is a grossly inadequate analysis; as a philosophical Hegelian, Harris believed children were property and the State had a compelling interest in disposing of them as it pleased.
		The first effective American compulsory schooling in the modern era was a reform school movement which Know-Nothing legislatures of the 1850s put into the hopper along with their radical new adoption law.
	www.spinninglobe.net /lessons.htm (9346 words)

	The True History of Public Education
		The committee’s report stated, “We believe that education is one of the principal causes of discontent of late years manifesting itself among the laboring classes.” By the turn of the century, America’s new educrats were pushing a new form of schooling with a new mission (and it wasn’t to teach).
		What we need is to tear all the schools down and go back to parents, family, friends, and neighbors teaching their own progeny the way it was when this nation had the “can-do” spirit and the common sense to, as the rednecks say, “Git-R-Done”.
		The fact that attendance and “citizenship” are replacing education should be a grave concern to parents.
	www.gnn.tv /threads/12976/The_True_History_of_Public_Education (1337 words)

	The Underground History of American Education
		If you want a conventional history of schooling, or education as it is carelessly called, you'd better stop reading now.
		Here was a man who represented wealth probably without parallel in history, the successor to a father who has, with justice, been called the high priest of capitalism....
		Despite its title, Underground History isn't a history proper, but a collection of materials toward a history, embedded in a personal essay analyzing why mass compulsion schooling is unreformable.
	www.spinninglobe.net /histunder.htm (5394 words)

	John Taylor Gatto
		Why Schools Don’t Educate: The speech Gatto gave when he accepted the New York City Teacher of the Year Award in 1990.
		A Short Angry History of American Forced Schooling: This address to the Vermont Homeschooling Conference looks at the history of compulsory eduction to uncover its purposes.
		Education and the Western Spiritual Tradition: An address by John Taylor Gatto at the "Spirituality In Education" conference, sponsored by the Naropa Institute, focusing on The Congregational Principle and Original Sin.
	www.preservenet.com /theory/Gatto.html (301 words)

	"CHANGE-AGENTS" CHANGE AMERICAN EDUCATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		A moral, independent thinking person threatens the goal of the change- agent which is the replacement of the moral authority of the family with that of the State.
		Bloom saw education as "a tool to classify the ways individuals are to act, think, or feel as the result of some unit of instruction".
		By 1971, according to "The Underground History of American Education" by New York City Teacher of the Year John Taylor Gatto, the U.S. Office of Education was deeply committed to Bloom's agenda of accessing and manipulating the private lives and thoughts of children.
	www.etherzone.com /2001/mors020901.shtml (734 words)

	The Memory Hole > The Educational System Was Designed to Keep Us Uneducated and Docile
		In 1888, the Senate Committee on Education was getting jittery about the localized, non-standardized, non-mandatory form of education that was actually teaching children to read at advanced levels, to comprehend history, and, egads, to think for themselves.
		The present educational conventions [intellectual and character education] fade from our minds, and unhampered by tradition we work our own good will upon a grateful and responsive folk.
		We were to become good worker-drones, with a razor-thin slice of the population—mainly the children of the captains of industry and government—to rise to the level where they could continue running things.
	www.thememoryhole.com /edu/school-mission.htm (1135 words)

	Amazon.com: The Underground History of American Education: A Schoolteacher's Intimate Investigation Into the Problem of ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The main purpose of forced of government schooling, it turns out, is to create a compliant citizen that can be manipulated by corporate employers, politicians and their allies who together comprise a modern day aristocracy or Governing Class whose main purpose in life is to live parasitically off of the efforts governed.
		I found it especially illuminating that the early British and American educational pioneers (who influenced schooling all over the world) were strongly influenced by the system of schooling that existed in India- a system that existed primarily to sustain the caste system.
		As the author states, a truly educated person writes his own script through life- he is not a character in a government or corporation play.
	www.amazon.com /Underground-History-American-Education-Schoolteachers/dp/B000A4IX46 (1150 words)

	The Underground History of American Education, by John Taylor Gatto (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The Underground History of American Education, by John Taylor Gatto
		"The emotional effect of Underground History cannot be overstated," comments Michael Farris, president of the Home School Legal Defense Association.
		There is only one reason public schooling has survived Gatto's critique: The public schools have given us three generations without the motivation — and often without the ability — to actually read it.
	www.libertybookshop.us /mall/Underground-History.htm (262 words)

	KET's Underground Railroad - A Condensed History of Slavery
		This research has partially been spurred by an increased national and international effort to document the Underground Railroad as a secret system of assistance- sometimes spontaneous, sometimes highly organized - of efforts by fls both free and enslaved, whites, and Native Americans led by the National Park Service.
		In learning a fuller history of Kentucky's role in slavery and in the fugitive slave movement, there may be lessons for today's society.
		One of those lessons is that African American history is a part of the fabric of the history of America and should not be kept separate from the whole.
	www.ket.org /underground/history (141 words)

	Holy Family School » The Underground History of American Education (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Here is a bit more Bedre history that you may not have known, and...
		If you don’t know what needs reforming about the American education machine you might just want to look that over.
		Pingback by Excelling in Homeschool » Blog Archive » Holy Family School » The Underground History of American Education — Sun 11 Dec 2005 @ 6:48 pm
	homeschool.gleeson.us /2005/11/14/the-underground-history-of-american-education (286 words)

	O’DonnellWeb - This is not a homeschooling blog » The Underground History of American Education (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		When we sold our liberty for the promise of automatic security, we became like children in a conspiracy against growing up, sad children who conspire against their own children, consigning them over and over to the denaturing vats of compulsory state factory schooling.
		This is not a history lesson anymore, this is what the schools are doing to your kids today.
		In chapter 14 Gatto connects the history of Western spirituality and forced schooling in a way that I would not have believed possible 30 minutes ago.
	www.odonnellweb.com /?cat=47 (843 words)

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