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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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJan 29, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1INTRODUCTORY
2CHAPTER I LAND OF ORANGE-GROVES AND JAILS
3CHAPTER II THE ADVENTURE OF THE UNIVERSITY CLUB
4CHAPTER III IN WHICH I GET ARRESTED
5CHAPTER IV THE EMPIRE OF THE BLACK HAND
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6CHAPTER V THE SCHOOLS OF THE “TIMES”
7CHAPTER VI THE TEACHERS’ SOVIETS
8CHAPTER VII A PRAYER FOR FREEDOM
9CHAPTER VIII THE PRICE OF INDEPENDENCE
10CHAPTER IX THE REGIME OF RECIPROCITY
11CHAPTER X THE SPY SYSTEM
12CHAPTER XI LIES FOR CHILDREN
13CHAPTER XII THE SCHOOLS OF MAMMON
14CHAPTER XIII THE TAMMANY TIGER
15CHAPTER XIV GOD AND MAMMON
16CHAPTER XV HONEST GRAFT
17CHAPTER XVI A LETTER TO WOODROW WILSON
18CHAPTER XVII AN ARRANGEMENT OF LITTLE BITS
19CHAPTER XVIII THE LUSKERS
20CHAPTER XIX TO HENRIETTA RODMAN
21CHAPTER XX MELODRAMA IN CHICAGO
22CHAPTER XXI CONTINUOUS PERFORMANCE
23CHAPTER XXII THE INCORPORATE TAX-DODGING CREATURES
24CHAPTER XXIII THE SUPERINTENDENT OF TROMBONES
25CHAPTER XXIV THE CITY OF FRENCH RESTAURANTS
26CHAPTER XXV THE UNIVERSITY GANG
27CHAPTER XXVI THE WARD LEADER
28CHAPTER XXVII THE ROMEO AND JULIET STUNT
29CHAPTER XXVIII THE INVENTOR OF FIVE SCIENCES
30CHAPTER XXIX THE LAND OF LUMBER
31CHAPTER XXX THE ANACONDA’S LAIR
32CHAPTER XXXI THE LITTLE ANACONDAS
33CHAPTER XXXII COLORADO CULTURE
34CHAPTER XXXIII THE DOMAIN OF KING COAL
35CHAPTER XXXIV THE HOMESTEAD OF THE FREE
36CHAPTER XXXV IS A TEACHER A CITIZEN?
37CHAPTER XXXVI INTRODUCING COMRADE THOMPSON
38CHAPTER XXXVII MILLERS AND MILITARISM
39CHAPTER XXXVIII NEWBERRY PIE
40CHAPTER XXXIX BEETS AND CELERY
41CHAPTER XL BOSTON IN BONDAGE
42CHAPTER XLI THE OPEN SHOP FOR CULTURE
43CHAPTER XLII CORRUPT AND CONTENTED
44CHAPTER XLIII THE SCENES OF MY CHILDHOOD
45CHAPTER XLIV THE BREWER’S DAUGHTER-IN-LAW
46CHAPTER XLV AN AUTOCRACY OF POLITICIANS
47CHAPTER XLVI THE CALIBRE OF CONGRESSMEN
48CHAPTER XLVII THE LOCAL MACHINES
49CHAPTER XLVIII THE STEAM ROLLER
50CHAPTER XLIX THE DISPENSERS OF PROMINENCE
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