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John D. Rockefeller founded the General Education Board in 1903, which is the origin of today's public school system.
“In our dream we have limitless resources, and the people yield themselves with perfect docility to our molding hand. The present educational conventions fade from our minds; and, unhampered by tradition, we work our own good will upon a grateful and responsive rural folk. We shall not try to make these people or any of their children into philosophers or men of learning or of science. We are not to raise up among them authors, orators, poets, or men of letters. We shall not search for embryo great artists, painters, musicians. Nor will we cherish even the humbler ambition to raise up from among them lawyers, doctors, preachers, statesmen, of whom we now have ample supply." ~ Rev. Frederick T. Gates, Business Advisor to John D. Rockefeller Sr., 1913
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John D. Rockefeller founded the General Education Board in 1903, which is the origin of today's public school system.
“In our dream we have limitless resources, and the people yield themselves with perfect docility to our molding hand. The present educational conventions fade from our minds; and, unhampered by tradition, we work our own good will upon a grateful and responsive rural folk. We shall not try to make these people or any of their children into philosophers or men of learning or of science. We are not to raise up among them authors, orators, poets, or men of letters. We shall not search for embryo great artists, painters, musicians. Nor will we cherish even the humbler ambition to raise up from among them lawyers, doctors, preachers, statesmen, of whom we now have ample supply." ~ Rev. Frederick T. Gates, Business Advisor to John D. Rockefeller Sr., 1913
Edit: here's a good video of John Gatto explaining the purpose of the public school system... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeEWPbTad_Q