John Taylor Gatto The Public School Model from Prussia, and How it Works for You

Here is John Taylor Gatto.  He's a pertty old guy who says that schools are in the buisness of molding and shaping schildren, not teaching them.

In csse you do not know who John Taylor Gatto is....
Wikipedia describes him as :

".... an American author and former school teacher with nearly 30 years of experience in the classroom. He devoted much of his energy to his teaching career, then, following his resignation, authored several books on modern education, criticizing its ideology, history, and consequences. He is best known for the underground classic "Dumbing Us Down: the Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling", and his magnum opus "The Underground History of American Education: A Schoolteacher’s Intimate Investigation Into the Problem of Modern Schooling."  John Taylor Gatto was named New York City Teacher of the Year in 1989, 1990, and 1991, before his retiring and additionally, he was named New York State Teacher of the Year in 1991

You can read his biography here.
You can read, The Six Lesson School Teacher, here.

The Extending of Childhood, video bvelow, by John Taylor Gatto. ( read it: here)
(Lengthening of the Period of Dependence.)