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A Weekend with John Taylor Gatto (VIDEOS)
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Uploaded by TragedyandHopeMag on Jan 1, 2012
http://www.TheUltimateHistoryLesson.com (notes, transcript, links, and more)
http://www.JohnTaylorGatto.com (all of John's books, and current projects)
http://www.PeaceRevolution.org (episodes 041-045 cover The Ultimate History Lesson + Analysis)
http://www.TragedyandHope.com (an online community which provides educational media by independent producers)
OUTLINE FOR HOUR 1:
1. Arriving at abstraction, critical thinking and draft evaluations (17:09)
2.
The metaphor of schooling and the school of fish. Collective
expectations vs. individualism, identity and uniqueness. Volition in
group selection. Language theft, Newspeak, Lippmann and the schooling
transformation. The language of education becomes respected out of
ritual.
3. Awareness of contrary dynamics leading to theories of
dialectics. Intellectual self defense, questioning authority. The
malign intent against individuality. Reality testing. Conditioned from
infancy to shave the truth. Education begins with mistrust.
4.
Outcome based education, servile arts vs. independent self sufficiency
and life-long learning. The logic of schooling and asking "why?"
Teaching experiences spanning 30 years including Gold Coast, Harlem, and
Spanish Harlem and the disparity between what Gatto accomplished vs.
the Protocol. Teaching his class to asking questions. Visiting
delegations. The ideal of 120 individual curricula. Learning more from
students than from the Ivy League.
5. The extension of
childhood and the economics of planned obsolescence. Lincoln's Mudsill
Moment in 1859. The British are financing the whole western movement
and attempting to reinstall their class system. Americans, independent
livelihoods and the incompatibility with the concept of the proletariat
based factory systems. Private independent systems of value.
Slavery, wives of the Plantation owners and the causes of the Civil War.
Northern industrialists wage slavery and deadwood.
6. The
pulpit and the press. William Rainey Harper and the Chautauqua's. Mass
media. Ideas and ways of thinking introduced to the "best" people. A
second American Revolution, controlling public opinion, mechanizing
workforces. Carnegie and the elimination of the need for skilled labor.
7. Leverage and the alchemy of wealth, power, fame. Global
Governance and Rockefeller lineage. Rockefeller rape allegations.
Horatio Alger. "The Rise of the Dangerous Class in New York City",
Adoption institutions, Lowering unit value of labor by encouraging women
in the workforce, social work industry rises. Children of Labor sent
west in box cars. Lutheran parents with Episcopal Hierarchy, farmers,
free labor. Breaking the parental bond. The theory of "Mirror
Neurons."
8. School and un-making connections. Short answer
testing, memorization and disjointed thinking. Automatic weight lifting
machines.
9. Frustration and Aggression and the removal of
volition in schooling. Executive hiring. Cronyism and the illusion of
credentialism in higher learning. How to get into Harvard or Princeton.
Wealth and Fame. Ambiguous excellence and "added value". Physical,
Mental and Social Hobbies. Team sports vs. carving your own path. Seat
less unicycle over broken terrain. Removing imagination. "Garbage in,
Garbage out." (48:00)
10.
Standardized testing, the Princeton Review and "What Smart Students
Know." 50/50 Learning. GPA and obedience. Unmasking reality. Bush,
Kerry and the "C" Averages. Skull and Bones Presidential Theatre.
"Chutzpah" and the contempt for ordinary people. Economic crisis, real
estate bubbles, savings and loan and the City Bank of New York.
Sophisticated amoral social engineers. Speaking in China. (57:00)
11.
Incoherence and the exhausting of national vitality. Prussian
education runs its course. Family as the root of Nations. Rhetorical
concern and the dependence on constant warfare. The explosion of
invention causing the "crisis of capitalism." Rockefeller, Carnegie,
Astor, Vanderbilt undermine education by assembled capital. Small
farmers, Entrepreneurs and the transition to the corporate economy.
12.
Prussian schooling, Johann Fichte and the "Addresses to the German
Nation" Battle of Jena (1806) Spinoza and "Tractatus Theologico
Politicus". Forced schooling to destroy the imagination. Bells,
testing, ranking. John Calvin's "Institutes of the Christian Religion,"
Justified Sinners and the elect.