<p>If you want to know about the true history of public, compulsory schooling check out this website (<a href="http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/underground/index.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/underground/index.htm</a> ). The author won awards for best New York City and New York State teacher - and he's on the warpath against public schools. Public schooling started off in Prussia to provide pliable fodder for the Prussian military. It then morphed into a tool for social engineering (there are some scary quotes from top figures in the schooling movement). Gatto thinks it was done to provide a pliable workforce for mass production - explaining the massive amounts of money donated by industrial families to advance public schooling (ever hear of the CARNEGIE endowment, or the ROCKEFELLER Foundation?).</p>
<p>It sounds like a crazy conspiracy, but the quotes from top schooling figures belie that suspicion.</p>