229 George Meegan: The Underground History of Amercian Education by John
Taylor Gatto from archive.org
George
Meegan
George Meegan was twenty-five years old
and an elementary school dropout, a British merchant seaman when he decided to take the longest walk in
human history, without any special
equipment, foundation bankroll, or backing of any kind. Leaving his ship in
South America he made his way to
Tierra del Fuego alone and just began to walk. Seven years later after crossing the Andes, making
his way through the trackless Darien Gap, and after taking a long detour on foot to see Washington, D. C,
he arrived at the Arctic Ocean
with a wife he met and married along the way, and their two children. In
that instant, part of the high
academic story of human migrations received its death blow from a dropout. His book was published in
1982. 
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