Automata
Ninety-nine [students] out of a hundred are automata, careful to walk in
prescribed paths, careful to follow the prescribed custom. This is not
an accident but the result of substantial education, which,
scientifically defined, is the subsumption of the individual...
The great purpose of school can be realized better in dark, airless, ugly places.... It is to master the physical self, to transcend the beauty of nature. School should develop the power to withdraw from the external world.
--"The Philosophy of Education" (1906) by William Torrey Harris, U.S. Commissioner of Education from 1889 to 1906
Quoted in "Weapons Of Mass Instruction" by John Taylor Gatto, p. 11
The great purpose of school can be realized better in dark, airless, ugly places.... It is to master the physical self, to transcend the beauty of nature. School should develop the power to withdraw from the external world.
--"The Philosophy of Education" (1906) by William Torrey Harris, U.S. Commissioner of Education from 1889 to 1906
Quoted in "Weapons Of Mass Instruction" by John Taylor Gatto, p. 11
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