Video: John Taylor Gatto on State-Controlled Consciousness

Here’s an interview with Everything You Know Is Wrong contributor John Taylor Gatto, an American school teacher of nearly 30 years and author of several books on education. Gatto is an activist critical of compulsory schooling and the hegemonic nature of discourse on education and the education professions.

The Educational System Was Designed to Keep Us Uneducated and Docile

It’s no secret that the US educational system doesn’t do a very good job. Like clockwork, studies show that America’s schoolkids lag behind their peers in pretty much every industrialized nation. We hear shocking statistics about the percentage of high-school seniors who can’t find the US on an unmarked map of the world or who don’t know who Abraham Lincoln was.