Reading about Gatto made me climb on one of my hobby horses, so I went and wrote a rant about education on my blog. I think Shakespeare was wrong. The first thing we do is not to get rid of the lawyers, let's get rid of the 'educators'. Once I got that out of my system, I came back and took a look at Gatto's site. The part that resonated for me was the forth rule...producing consumers instead of citizens.
The synergies and accidental convergences of agendas that I run into on the web continue to astound me. If there was going to be a cluetrain II, I suspect that some part of it would be informed by Gatto.