His large, commanding form and his somber yet urgent yet also compassionate voice nearly mesmerizes. Gatto's insights into the history of our culture, however, are what prove riveting.
Government schools create mindless consumerism in three broad ways.
First, they perpetuate unecessary industries which feeds on the government system. The drug industry puts out ritalin to tranquilize behavioral problems. School psychologists, the schools which train the psychologists and the teachers, the local politicians, and the bureaucrats all profit from the system. Schools contract with cola companies to sell and advertise pop in the schools. One example given by Gatto was a coloring and language book put out by a butter company and used in government school.