Robert Rand

John Taylor Gatto was named New York State Teacher of the Year. Upon receiving the award, he quit and spent the rest of his life writing devastating critiques of the educational system he had mastered. Gatto argued that regardless of the official curriculum, schools actually teach seven hidden lessons. The first is confusion. Students learn disconnected facts across dozens of subjects with no integration or meaning. The second is class position. Students learn their place in the social hierarchy. The third is indifference. Students learn that nothing is worth finishing because the bell always rings. The fourth is emotional dependency. Students learn to surrender their will to a chain of command. The fifth is intellectual dependency. Students learn to wait for experts to tell them what to think. The sixth is provisional self-esteem. Students learn that their worth depends on expert evaluation. The seventh is that they are always being watched and have no privacy. These lessons, Gatto argued, are the actual function of schooling. The explicit curriculum of reading, writing, and arithmetic is almost incidental. The real purpose is to produce passive, dependent, compliant citizens who wait for authorities to tell them what to do and think. Trad schooling amounts to thirteen years of training in being passive and dependent. I have seen this play out with hundreds of students. When I created Montessori middle schools in the San Francisco Bay Area, about half the students came up through Montessori elementary and about half came from public schools. When we opened, the Montessori kids immediately began doing their work, taking initiative, choosing what to tackle first. The public school students were lost. They would stare at their desks until we walked over and helped them plan their morning. It took at least a semester, sometimes a full year, before they could function in an environment that asked them to direct their own learning. These were not less intelligent children. They had simply been trained differently. For years, someone else had made all the decisions about what they would do, when they would do it, and how they would do it. When that structure was removed, they did not know how to operate. Agency is natural to children unless we train it out of them. When I coach parents on evaluating their children's education, I tell them to ignore grades entirely. The question is whether their children are taking initiative, being responsible, and becoming empowered moral beings. If a child is getting straight A's but has no initiative and no sense of personal responsibility, that child is being damaged by their education regardless of how it looks on paper.

🚨BREAKING STUDY: COVID-19 “vaccine” mRNA and spike protein INVADE the human placenta and fetal cells—even in mothers vaccinated BEFORE pregnancy. Among 106 pregnancies: ⚠️37% of placentas from vaccinated mothers with NO infection contained spike protein ⚠️77% of spike-positive placentas had spike inside fetal immune cells ⚠️Spike detected in fetal blood vessel cells ⚠️Vaccine mRNA and spike protein found in placenta even when vaccination occurred BEFORE pregnancy These findings explain why infant mortality began to increase in 2021—immediately following the mass vaccination of women of childbearing age—reversing a 30-year decline. Governments, pharmaceutical companies, and regulatory agencies have committed a grave disservice to future generations. The long-term risks of in utero exposure to highly pathogenic spike protein of modified mRNA are unknown, yet these experimental injections were recklessly pushed onto pregnant women without adequate safety data. It really is time for criminal charges.

Across basically every metric, the results were null, null, and--my favorite--null. And this is what we expect with credible intervention evaluations of high-quality samples. This is so common, in fact, that it's been dubbed the "Stainless Steel Law":