The Goslings A Study of American Schools
By Upton Sinclair
Length19h 25m
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Excerpt: "Life has given you one of its precious treasures, a child; a body to nurture, a character to train, a mind with endless possibilities of growth, a soul with hidden stores of tenderness and beauty—all these are Nature's gifts. Modern science has shown that within the child's soul lies magically locked up all the past of our race; also, it is evident that within it lies all the future of our race. What our children are now being made is what America will be. You send these little ones to school. Twenty-three millions of them troop off every week-day morning, with their shining faces newly washed, their clothing cleaned and mended. You bear them, you rear them, with infinite pains and devotion you prepare them, and feed them into the gigantic educational machine. You do not know much about this machine. You have turned it over to others to run. Every year you pay to maintain it a billion dollars of wealth which you have produced by real and earnest toil. You take it for granted that this billion dollars is competently used; that those who run the machine are giving your twenty-three million children the best education that forty-three dollars and forty-seven cents per child will buy. The purpose of this book is to show you how the "invisible government" of Big Business which controls the rest of America has taken over the charge of your children. In the course of a public debate with the writer, in the Civic Club in New York City, May, 1922, Dr. Tildsley, district superintendent of the public school system of that city, made the statement: "I do not know any school system in the United States which is run for the benefit of the children. They are all run for the benefit of the gang." This statement, made upon high authority, is the thesis of "The Goslings." Come with me and let me show you what is this "gang" which runs the school system of the United States; how they got their power, what use they make of it, and what this means to the bodies and minds of your twenty-three million little ones."
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GenrePsychology, History
Length19 hrs 25 mins
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Publish dateJan 29, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1INTRODUCTORY
46CHAPTER XLV AN AUTOCRACY OF POLITICIANS
2CHAPTER I LAND OF ORANGE-GROVES AND JAILS
47CHAPTER XLVI THE CALIBRE OF CONGRESSMEN
3CHAPTER II THE ADVENTURE OF THE UNIVERSITY CLUB
48CHAPTER XLVII THE LOCAL MACHINES
4CHAPTER III IN WHICH I GET ARRESTED
49CHAPTER XLVIII THE STEAM ROLLER
5CHAPTER IV THE EMPIRE OF THE BLACK HAND
50CHAPTER XLIX THE DISPENSERS OF PROMINENCE
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6CHAPTER V THE SCHOOLS OF THE “TIMES”
51CHAPTER L A PLOT AGAINST DEMOCRACY
7CHAPTER VI THE TEACHERS’ SOVIETS
52CHAPTER LI THE PLOT FAILS
8CHAPTER VII A PRAYER FOR FREEDOM
53CHAPTER LII MORMON MAGIC
9CHAPTER VIII THE PRICE OF INDEPENDENCE
54CHAPTER LIII THE FUNERAL OF DEMOCRACY
10CHAPTER IX THE REGIME OF RECIPROCITY
55CHAPTER LIV THE FRUITS OF THE SOWING
11CHAPTER X THE SPY SYSTEM
56CHAPTER LV TEACHERS TO THE REAR
12CHAPTER XI LIES FOR CHILDREN
57CHAPTER LVI BREAD AND CIRCUSES
13CHAPTER XII THE SCHOOLS OF MAMMON
58CHAPTER LVII SCHOOLS FOR STRIKE-BREAKERS
14CHAPTER XIII THE TAMMANY TIGER
59CHAPTER LVIII THE NATIONAL SPIES’ ASSOCIATION
15CHAPTER XIV GOD AND MAMMON
60CHAPTER LIX BABBITTS AND BOLSHEVIKS
16CHAPTER XV HONEST GRAFT
61CHAPTER LX THE SCHOOLS OF SOCONY
17CHAPTER XVI A LETTER TO WOODROW WILSON
62CHAPTER LXI THE RIOT DEPARTMENT
18CHAPTER XVII AN ARRANGEMENT OF LITTLE BITS
63CHAPTER LXII THE BLINDFOLD SCHOOL OF PATRIOTISM
19CHAPTER XVIII THE LUSKERS
64CHAPTER LXIII PROFESSOR FACING BOTH-WAYS
20CHAPTER XIX TO HENRIETTA RODMAN
65CHAPTER LXIV POISON PICTURES
21CHAPTER XX MELODRAMA IN CHICAGO
66CHAPTER LXV THE BOOK BUSINESS
22CHAPTER XXI CONTINUOUS PERFORMANCE
67CHAPTER LXVI TEN PER CENT COMMISSIONS
23CHAPTER XXII THE INCORPORATE TAX-DODGING CREATURES
68CHAPTER LXVII THE SUPERINTENDENT-MAKERS
24CHAPTER XXIII THE SUPERINTENDENT OF TROMBONES
69CHAPTER LXVIII THE CHURCH CONSPIRACY
25CHAPTER XXIV THE CITY OF FRENCH RESTAURANTS
70CHAPTER LXIX CATHOLICISM AND THE SCHOOLS
26CHAPTER XXV THE UNIVERSITY GANG
71CHAPTER LXX THE PRACTICAL CHURCH ADMINISTRATOR
27CHAPTER XXVI THE WARD LEADER
72CHAPTER LXXI FAITH AND MODERN THOUGHT
28CHAPTER XXVII THE ROMEO AND JULIET STUNT
73CHAPTER LXXII THE SCHOOLS OF STEEL
29CHAPTER XXVIII THE INVENTOR OF FIVE SCIENCES
74CHAPTER LXXIII THE SCHOOLS OF OIL
30CHAPTER XXIX THE LAND OF LUMBER
75CHAPTER LXXIV THE COUNTRY GEESE
31CHAPTER XXX THE ANACONDA’S LAIR
76CHAPTER LXXV THE SCHOOLS OF SNOBBERY
32CHAPTER XXXI THE LITTLE ANACONDAS
77CHAPTER LXXVI A SCHOOL SURVEY
33CHAPTER XXXII COLORADO CULTURE
78CHAPTER LXXVII THE EDUCATIONAL MILLS
34CHAPTER XXXIII THE DOMAIN OF KING COAL
79CHAPTER LXXVIII DESCENSUS AVERNO
35CHAPTER XXXIV THE HOMESTEAD OF THE FREE
80CHAPTER LXXIX THE TEACHER’S JOB
36CHAPTER XXXV IS A TEACHER A CITIZEN?
81CHAPTER LXXX TEACHERS’ TERROR
37CHAPTER XXXVI INTRODUCING COMRADE THOMPSON
82CHAPTER LXXXI THE SCHOOL SERFS
38CHAPTER XXXVII MILLERS AND MILITARISM
83CHAPTER LXXXII THE TEACHERS’ UNION
39CHAPTER XXXVIII NEWBERRY PIE
84CHAPTER LXXXIII THE TEACHERS’ MAGNA CHARTA
40CHAPTER XXXIX BEETS AND CELERY
85CHAPTER LXXXIV WORKERS’ EDUCATION
41CHAPTER XL BOSTON IN BONDAGE
86CHAPTER LXXXV THE GOOSE-STEP MARCH
42CHAPTER XLI THE OPEN SHOP FOR CULTURE
87CHAPTER LXXXVI THE GOOSE-STEP ADVANCE
43CHAPTER XLII CORRUPT AND CONTENTED
88CHAPTER LXXXVII THE GOOSE-STEP DOUBLE-QUICK
44CHAPTER XLIII THE SCENES OF MY CHILDHOOD
89CHAPTER LXXXVIII THE GOOSE-STEP REVIEW
45CHAPTER XLIV THE BREWER’S DAUGHTER-IN-LAW
90CHAPTER LXXXIX THE CALL TO ACTION
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