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〈 A Change In The Governing Mind
〈 Extending Childhood
〈 The icist's Manifesto
〈 Participatory Democracy Put To The Sword
〈 Bad Character As A Management Tool
〈 An Enclosure Movement For Children
〈 The Dangan
〈 Occasional Letter Number One
〈 Change Agents Infiltrate
〈 Bionomics
〈 Waking Up Angry
Today's corporate sponsors want to see their money used in ways to line up with business
objectives.... This is a young generation of corporate sponsors and they have discovered the
advantages of building long-term relationships with educational institutions.
– Suzanne Cornforth of Paschall & Associates, public relations consultants. As quoted in The New York
Times, July 15, 1998
A Change In The Governing Mind
Sometimes the best hiding place is right in the open. It took seven years of reading and reflection for me to finally
figure out that mass schooling of the young by force was a creation of the four great coal powers of the eenth
century. It was under my nose, of course, but for years I avoided seeing what was there because no one else
seemed to notice. Forced schooling arose from the new logic of the Industrial Age–the logic imposed on flesh and
blood by fossil fuel and high-speed machinery.
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This simple reality is hidden from view by early philosophical and theological anticipations of mass schooling in
various writings about social order and human nature. But you shouldn't be fooled any more than Charles Francis
Adams was fooled when he observed in 1880 that what was being cooked up for kids unlucky enough to be
snared by the newly proposed institutional combined characteristics of the cotton mill and the railroad
with those of a state prison