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> I sent Gatto's six lessons, or was it seven, essay to my school 
> teacher daughter-in-law in Canada and asked what she thought of it. 
> No response yet.

Patience, Iago.  It is a difficult thing for people to see even when it is 
laid out in such clear terms as Gatto does.  That simple fact ought to raise 
an 
alarm.

When people are not indoctrinated, or at least not indoctrinated on a 
particular subject, a suggestion that there might be a different or better 
way is 
most often met with, "Oh, I hadn't considered that, how does that work?"  Or 
perhaps, "Yes, I've considered that and this was the result....  Have you 
overcome 
those consequences and how did you do it?"

But the purpose of indoctrination is to make the person react emotionally and 
irrationally (such as Clockwork Orange) against considering a different view 
of things.    They have the same inensity of craving as a smoker and can only 
lay aside the condidtioning as the former can tobacco.

To continue the tobacco analogy, notice how many times you hear that the 
education/parent situation has been improved by letting the child out of 
school so 
they can spend more time with their family ...... sooo very similar to the "I 
can't quit so I'll cut back a bit."

Just as when Gandalf cast Saurman out of Theodn, just prior to which 
Theoden's conditioning made him say, "Why should I welcome you?",  just like 
that, 
those who point out that an institution in which some have invested their 
lives 
is actually sinister and harmful is met with like resistence and resentment.  
Yet once cast out and the person can "breathe the free air once more", they 
are 
most often dismayed at the influence that idea had over them.