Home-School.Com: an astonishing interview with John Taylor Gatto

If you don't know John Taylor Gatto, he was the astonishing teacher who resigned after being named Teacher of the Year (read my former article here).

Nevertheless in his announcement to the Wall Street Journal he didn't really explain why he did so. It is only in an interview with home-school.com that we can finally learn "what" or rather "who" was behind his sudden decision.

And the "who" was Carroll Quigley, Bill Clinton's mentor. This is an excerpt of his interview:

"When Bill Clinton was nominated by the Democratic Party for the presidency in 1991, I think that was July 17th, the New York Times printed his acceptance speech for the nomination. The speech ended with the tribute to a college professor who had been Clinton's mentor at Georgetown. Clinton said that this professor had seen the future more clearly than anyone. His name was Caroll Quigley.

... I read constantly and anybody who is worth knowing about I should at least have heard of. I never heard of this guy. So I went to the public library, and there was exactly one book in the files by Quigley, Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time. I ordered it; it was out. It never came back in. I travel constantly, so a few days later, I was in San Francisco, and I went to the San Francisco Library, and Quigley was in the files, book stolen. I went to Dallas, Quigley was in the files, book stolen. I made seven or eight other tries to get it, with the same result.

... Here's the future president of the United States paying tribute to a man whose book is unavailable in the United States [Since the book has been finally re-edited see on Amazon].

Some dentist out in California heard me on a radio show, saying that I was looking for the book. He called me up and said that he had a copy and I bought it from him.

Well, I saw why the book was unavailable. Quigley claims to be the only man ever allowed access to the private files of the group that has taken this project under their wing. We call it the Council on Foreign Relations [CFR] in this country, but in fact there are 23 bases worldwide. Quigleysaid that he was allowed to read all their papers from its inception, and that the CFR had a clear, organized, rational plan to eliminate war and to make life - ah - efficient.

Quigley's book was printed in 1966 by Macmillan. In his book, Quigleysaid that he approved of the plan; what he didn't approve of was the secrecy. But right before he died, about ten years ago, Quigleygave a series of lectures at Georgetown, called the Oscar Iden lectures. In the Iden lectures, Quigleysaid that he no longer accepted this as a moral or a decent thing to do, and that we had to take up arms against this plan.

So what we have is upper-level documentation by a major scholar, who in fact is paid tribute to by the current president of the United States in his acceptance speech. I was already started on the path of tracking down these players, but Quigley took me much, much farther than I could have gone alone. With Quigley's clues to what was happening, I was able myself to assemble from mainline scholarship ... a real outline of what had happened, and in particular what was happening in the schools."