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The School Survival Guide, Section 1 Chapter 3: Education is Oppression

 

11. Under Gatto's "7 lessons", children are taught:

A) Confusion. Everything is taught out of context.

B) Class position. Children are numbered and herded and must know their place.

C) Indifference. "Nothing important is ever finished in my class or any class I know of."

D) Emotional Dependency. Children must surrender their will to the chain of command, using "stars and red checks, smiles and frowns, prizes, honors and disgraces."

E) Intellectual Dependency. The most important lesson, according to Gatto. Children must wait for the expert authority to make all the important decisions, to tell them what to do. There is no place for curiosity, only conformity.

F) Provisional self-esteem. Children must be taught their self-respect depends on expert opinion. They must be constantly tested, evaluated, judged, graded, and reported on by certain officials. Self-evaluation is irrelevant, "people must be told what they are worth."

G) Conformity. Children are made to conform to political agendas, such as dress codes and the pledge of allegiance.

H) All of the above