The Hidden Curriculum in Higher Education

John Taylor Gatto is one of the prominent icons alive today who explains The Underground History of American Education and how it's designed to place limits on social mobility and self-actualization contingent on factors such as socioeconomic class. Specifically, he focuses on socialization in K-12 education.

With the homeschooling movement on the rise (+36% in the last 5 years), the word seems to be getting out that unschooling has the potential to liberate genius. What seems less well known by people are the practices used in the Hidden Curriculum of Higher Education to thwart innovation, emotional well-being, and financial independence.

University Secrets by Robert Honigman. The Hidden Curriculum of Higher Education by Eric Margolis. There are other books that delve deeper into the barriers to self-actualization in specific disciplines like Psychology. Fireflies in the Shadow of the Sun by Wyatt Ehrenfels does an excellent job exposing the corruption and intellectual oppression in the field. Even though we see slight improvements with Martin Seligman promoting the movement of Positive Psychology at TED conferences and elsewhere, Ehrenfels's voice et al. are still suppressed and need to be heard by anyone willing to listen.

The following video demonstrates these students care about analyzing their own lives in Higher Education. They know "a matrix" exists. The challenge is knowing where to start with asking the right questions that seldom get asked. These students do the best they can while not even really scratching the surface in regards to how they're being socialized.

Given that this video has received what's approaching close to 3 million views to date, we can assume safely that they aren't the only ones that are ready to start taking "the red pill." Reading the right books in this effort is the first step to getting unplugged.