Unfairness of American Education

We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class or persons, a very much larger class, of necessity, in every society, to forego the privileges of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks (Gatto 37).

This spells out in no uncertain terms that education was designed to divide the population into the workers and the elite. There was a realization that if the entire population received a fair and adequate education, they would be able to think for themselves, and see how they were being manipulated by big business and marketing. The masses were the consumers, and if they could think logically they would not fall for the gimmicks and false promises of the salesmen, and would not buy the products they did not need. They had to be controlled

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