onsdag 22 april 2015

It behooves us to question the psychology behind stigma when it comes to mental disability. The truth is that mental “illness” is still shamelessly albeit implicitly associated with “evil” powers, as Thomas Szasz has observed. It’s precisely because insanity is thought to be due to possession by evil spirits that it is treated by subjecting the insane to cruelties which it is hoped the demons will dislike, as Bertrand Russell observed in The Impact of Science on Society. But as Plato wrote in Phaedrus, “…the greatest blessings come by way of madness, indeed of madness that is heavensent.”

lördag 10 januari 2015

H.L. Mencken, The Penalty of Death,

The Greatest History Lesson - John Taylor Gatto - The Truth About Your Education,
At the Least, Do No Harm: A Polemic Against Schooling by John Taylor Gatto (pp. 8-10),


John Taylor Gatto – The Purpose of Schooling. Truth versus Disinformation . . . Everything You Know is Wrong About Schooling,


John Taylor Gatto, Personal Solutions, Family Solutions (pp. 13-19),

Also see “What Really Matters” (pp. 20-25) at ibid.


Everything We Think About Schooling Is Wrong! An interview with John Taylor Gatto,


John Taylor Gatto, Against School,



John Taylor Gatto, Why Schools Don’t Educate,



John Taylor Gatto, The Seven-Lesson Schoolteacher,


John Taylor Gatto, Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteachers Journey through the
Dark World of Compulsory Schooling,


John Taylor Gatto, The Exhausted School: “How Did We Ever Come to Believe
that the State Should Tell Our Children What to Think?”, 


John Taylor Gatto, Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling,
http://www.users.humboldt.edu/jwpowell/27806948-Dumbing-Us-Down-by-John-Taylor-Gatto.pdf

lördag 3 januari 2015