Thanks so much for that. I printed and highlighted the pee out of that.

I've been hearing about Gatto for a while but have yet to pick up one of his books.

I can quibble about some points, but most of it fits with my experience: the abilities that I retain are the result of my resisting the educational system. So I expand the traditional maxim of, "1) Those who can... do; those who can't... teach." to include:

2) Those who can't teach... administrate.

3) Those who can't administrate... design educational systems.

4) Those who are concerned only with controlling deviance (aka creativity)... run for school board.

Disclosure: My UC-Berkeley diploma is validated by the signature of a movie actor. [No, not Arnold; think early pleistocene era.]