09/06/03 – John Taylor Gatto – The Scott Horton Show

09/06/03 – John Taylor Gatto – The Scott Horton Show

Philip Dru interviews John Taylor Gatto about the deliberate plan to use compulsory school to create “manageable people.” Mr. Gatto is a former Teacher of the Year in New York City, and is the author of “Against School,” the cover article in Harper’s Magazine for September 2003. He is also the author of the books Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling, The Exhausted School, A Different Kind of Teacher, and The Underground History of American Education (read it free here).

 

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Scott Horton is director of the Libertarian Institute, editorial director of Antiwar.com, host of Antiwar Radio on Pacifica, 90.7 FM KPFK in Los Angeles, California and podcasts the Scott Horton Show from ScottHorton.org. He's the author of the 2021 book Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism, the 2017 book, Fool's Errand:Time to End the War in Afghanistan, editor of the 2019 book The Great Ron Paul: The Scott Horton Show Interviews 2004–2019 and the 2022 book Hotter Than The Sun: Time to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. He’s conducted more than 6,000 interviews since 2003. Scott lives in Austin, Texas with his wife, Larisa Alexandrovna Horton.

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