145. A Scientifically Humane Future: The Underground History of American
Education by John Taylor Gatto from archive.org
Chapter
Twelve
Daughters of the Barons of Runnemede
Membership Requirements
Membership in the Society is composed of women
who are of legal age and he lineal
descendant of one or more of the twenty-five Barons, selected to enforce
the Magna Carta, those Barons in arms
from the date of King John 's Coronation until June 15, 1215. Membership is by invitation only.
Within the Society there is an Order of
Distinction Committee composed of members who trace their ancestry to
Knights of the Garter, Ladies of the
Garter and Knights of the Bath. —
Charter, Daughters of the Barons of Runnemede
A Scientifically Humane Future
In
the founding decades of American forced schooling, Rockefeller's General
Education Board and Carnegie's
foundation spent more money on schools than the national government did. What can a fact like that
mean? Because they possessed a coherent perspective, had funds to apply to command the
energies of the ambitious, possessed a
national network of practical men of affairs, and at the same time could
tap a pool of academic knowledge about
the management of populations held in the universities they endowed, these and a small handful of men
like them commanded decisive influence on
forced schooling. Other influences had importance, too, but none more
than this commitment of a scientifically
benevolent American ruling class whose oversight of the economy and other aspects of living was
deemed proper because of its evolutionary merit
by the findings of modern science. The burden of this chapter is to show
how a national upper class came about,
what was on its mind, and how schools were the natural vehicle it mounted to ride into a scientifically
humane, thoroughly Utopian future.
Exclusive
Heredity
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