By preventing a free market in education, a handful of social engineers, backed by the industries that profit from compulsory schooling—teacher colleges, textbook publishers, materials suppliers, and others—have ensured that most of our children will not have an education, even though they may be thoroughly schooled.

— John Taylor Gatto Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling (1992)

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