The public school system has an interesting (and dreadful) history. Jordan Peterson does a brief review of The Underground History of American Education: A School Teacher's Intimate Investigation Into the Problem of Modern Schooling: by John Taylor Gatto
The book can be read in full HERE.
Here is a portion of Mr. Gatto's summary of this 421 page book:
Every page is interesting, here is a very small example:
Here is Jordon Peterson's three-minute video introduction to this book starts at about 26:05 and ends at 29:22