Compulsory Schooling is Indoctrination

Compulsory schooling has been, from the beginning, a scheme of indoctrination into the new concept of mass man, an important part of which was the creation of a proletariat.  According to August Comte (surely the godfather of scientific schooling), you could create a useful proletariat class by breaking connections between children and their families, their communities, their God, and themselves.

John Taylor Gatto, “What’s Really Wrong With Our Schools?” pg.20