/lit/ - Literature

>>18701792
Please give this a read OP it changed my life

Here's a PDF: https://archive.org/details/TheUndergroundHistoryOfAmericanEducation_643

>>18296463
It does not get any better than this book, it's not explicitly Ancap but it lays the argument for personal agency and decentralization out in a more personal and penetrating way then I have ever seen before. My favorite book ever

"Was it possible I had been hired not to enlarge children's power, but to diminish it? That seemed crazy on the face of it, but slowly I began to realize that the bells and the confinement, the crazy sequences, the age-segregation, the lack of privacy, the constant surveillance, and all the rest of national curriculum of schooling were designed exactly as if someone had set out to prevent children from learning how to think and act, to coax them into addiction and dependent behavior."

-John Taylor Gatto

same feel?

This is one of the best books I've ever read. Written by a former New York State Teacher of the Year who taught for 30 years in American public schools, it's an incredibly moving account on what the true origins and purpose of compulsory schooling are. It's a book I feel everyone should read, especially if you have been through the American public school system.

Here's an excerpt:

"Was it possible I had been hired not to enlarge children's power, but to diminish it? That seemed crazy on the face of it, but slowly I began to realize that the bells and the confinement, the crazy sequences, the age-segregation, the lack of privacy, the constant surveillance, and all the rest of national curriculum of schooling were designed exactly as if someone had set out to prevent children from learning how to think and act, to coax them into addiction and dependent behavior."

"Global economics does not speak to the public need for meaningful work, affordable housing, fulfilling education, adequate medical care, a clean environment, honest and accountable government, social and cultural renewal, or simple justice. All global ambitions are based on a definition of productivity and the good life so alienated from common human reality that I am convinced it is wrong and that most people would agree with me if they could perceive an alternative. We might be able to see that if we regained a hold on a philosophy that locates meaning where meaning is genuinely to be found — in families, in friends, in the passage of seasons, in nature, in simple ceremonies and rituals, in curiosity, generosity, compassion, and service to others, in a decent independence and privacy, in all the free and inexpensive things out of which real families, real friends, and real communities are built — then we would be so self-sufficient we would not even need the material “sufficiency” which our global “experts” are so insistent we be concerned about."

"What is the purpose 15,000 hours of mass schooling supposed to be? Reading, writing and arithmetic can't be the answer because properly approached those things take less than a hundred hours to transmit — and we have abundant evidence that each is readily self-taught in the right setting and time. School is a twelve-year jail sentence where bad habits are the only curriculum truly learned. I teach school and win awards doing it. I should know."

>>11952959
I read so much anti-schooling stuff before becoming a NEET.

>tfw your entire education was a lie and you wasted 12 years of your life

How do I get revenge?