The marketplace of ideas has become monopolized by corporations and institutions, and our coercion-based education system is used to create a society of consumers rather than one of thinkers.

For almost twenty years (since he resigned from teaching while he was New York State Teacher of the Year), John Taylor Gatto has been writing and speaking to anyone who will listen about how this “mass child indoctrination by force” came about and why it continues in our schools.

In a new article published in the current March/April 2010 issue of Life Learning Magazine, he elaborates on that process and suggests way to resist it. Here’s a link to a short excerpt from the article.

John is now almost 75 years of age, has a new book in process and maintains an active speaking schedule. His politics and his outspoken nature make his work controversial – even among homeschoolers and life learners. But his anti-compulsory school and pro-self-directed learning  message is an important one and I am happy to have been able to disccuss the issues with him over the years, and to publish some of his work.

There are links here to some of his articles published in Life Learning Magazine. And go here (scroll down to his profile) for links to some of his earlier articles published in Natural Life Magazine. He also wrote the foreword to this book, which we recently published.