You gotta love The Memory Hole. While many of us realize that the design of the public school creates an assembly line type of “education” system, where conformity to the standard is more important that growing in true knowledge, it’s nice to find research where we can hear this sort of thinking straight from their mouths of the government educators.

I found on their site an article entitled, “The Educational System Was Designed to Keep Us Uneducated and Docile“, in which the author reprints a number of quotes from John Taylor Gatto‘s book, The Underground History of American Education: An Intimate Investigation into the Problem of Modern Schooling. Some of the quotes he references are so amazing, you almost think they need to be a hoax! Here’s one of my favorites, from President Woodrow Wilson:

We want one class to have a liberal education. We want another class, a very much larger class of necessity, to forego the privilege of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.