Recipe for Empty Children

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        Gatto writes, "If you want to cook whole children, as I suspect we all do, just contradict 
        these stages in the formula."
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        Remove children from the business of the world until time has passed for them to learn how 
        to self-teach. 
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        Age-grade them so that past and future both are muted and become irrelevant. 
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        Take all religion out of their lives except the hidden civil religion of appetite, and 
        positive/negative reinforcement schedules. 
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        Remove all significant functions from home and family life except its role as dormitory 
        and casual companionship. Make parents unpaid agents of the state, recruit them into 
        partnerships to monitor the conformity of children to an official agenda. 
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        Keep children under surveillance every minute from dawn to dusk. Give no private space or 
        time. Fill time with collective activities. Record behavior quantitatively. 
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        Addict the young to machinery and electronic displays. Teach that these are desirable to 
        recreation and learning both. 
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        Use designed games and commercial entertainments to teach preplanned habits, attitudes and 
        language usages. 
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        Pair the selling of merchandise with attractive females in their prime childbearing years 
        so that the valences of lovemaking and mothering can be transferred intact to the goods 
        vended. 
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        Remove as much private ritual as possible from young lives, such as the rituals of food 
        preparation and family dining. 
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        Keep both parents employed with the business of strangers. Discourage independent 
        livelihoods with low start-up costs. Make labor for others and outside obligations first 
        priority; self-development second. 
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        Grade, evaluate, and assess children constantly and publicly. Begin early. Make sure 
        everyone knows his or her rank. 
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        Honor the highly graded. Keep grading and real world accomplishment as strictly separated 
        as possible so that a false meritocracy, dependent on the support of authority to 
        continue, is created. Push the most independent kids to the margin, do not tolerate real 
        argument. 
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        Forbid the efficient transmission of useful knowledge, such as how to build a house, 
        repair a car, make a dress. 
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        Reward dependency in many forms. Call it "teamwork." 
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        Establish visually degraded group environments called "schools" and arrange mass movements 
        through the environments at regular intervals. Encourage a level of fluctuating noise 
        (aperiodic negative reinforcement) so that concentration, habits of civil discourse, and 
        intellectual investigation are gradually extinguished from the behavioral repertoire.
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