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by George Meegan (Author)
Youth is a diamond, the cutting of which creates either value or destroys it. Education is the diamond cutter. Suddenly, everything is now possible! General Education 2000 (Democracy Reaching the Kids!) has given back to E.D.U.C.A.T.I.O.N., something called education... the 'leading forth, ' the real stuff! Restored the real meaning of the word, and, more important, its spirit-what is within every still-growing, still-seeking individual. And not in moribund institutions already gone far in the direction of Lord Acton's famous dictum: "absolute power corrupting absolutely." For many the core mission, guiding and developing our youth, has indeed been negated. Our new natural approach will finally triumph over what has gagged, bound, and, yes, destroyed and killed to keep its conforming form. No more. No more
Author Biography
From John Taylor Gatto: 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, The Longest Walk, was first published in 1982. And now Democracy Reaches the Kids! is a testament to George's mission and destiny in life to retool, rekindle the joy of learning in all the children in all the cultures of the world. To preserve and flower those vast treasures.
