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The Underground History of American Revolution: John Taylor Gatto on Mass, Forced Schooling

February 15, 2004
Prologue
The shocking possibility that dumb people don't exist in sufficient numbers to warrant the millions of careers devoted to tending them will seem incredible to you. Yet that is my central proposition: the mass dumbness which justifies official schooling first had to be dreamed of; it isn't real.