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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