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“For the first two centuries of our existence, such an institution would’ve been unthinkable-Young were too valuable a part of economic and social reality. Indispensable, in fact. But when the young were signed to consume, not produce; when they were ordered to be passive, not active as a part of the general society, the schools we have were the inevitable result of this transformation.“

“The transformation of the school from a place of modest ambition, centering around, reading, writing, arithmetic, and decency into behavioral training laboratory ordered up by “certain industrialist and the innovative, who are altering the nature of industrial process”, has acted to poison the American experiment.”

“… Designing education for the future belies
It’s benign title and would repay a disciplined readthrough of its semiliterate pros. Produced by the US office of education, it redefined education after the depression fashion, as a “means to achieve, important, economic, and social goals of natural characterization.“

“… Designing education for the future, Isa. It’s benign title and would repay a disciplined readthrough of its semiliterate pros. Produced by the US office of education, it redefined education after the depression fashion, as a “means to achieve, important, economic, and social goals of natural characterization.“

“Bloom spawned a hoard of descendent forms: mastery learning; outcome based education; school to work; classroom/business partnerships and more. You can detect Bluhm at work and any initiative which seeks to classify students for the convenience of social managers and businesses.”

“Drawing on the new technology of ‘behavioral psychology’, children would be forced to learn, ‘proper’ thoughts, feelings, and actions, while improper attitudes brought from home or ‘remediated’.“

“… An executive Director of the national education Association announced that the NEA expected ‘to accomplish by education what dictators in Europe are seeking to do by compulsion and force’.“

“… The whole game of rearing the Young was being taken over by the experts… Family after all was a retrograde institution, why should mom and dad know better than the experts how to bring up baby?“

“. . . the dream of Darwin and Galton would become reality through the agency of public education, ‘designed to check the mating of the unfit’. The dream of the scientific population control.“

“Calhoun wrote that the fondest wish of utopian thinkers was coming true: children were passing from blood families ‘n into the custody of the community expert’.“