In 1999, John Gatto reported discovering the following "mission statement" among       documents from John D. Rockefeller's 1906 General Education Board; according to        John Gatto, this information can be viewed at the Rockefeller Archive in New York.     "In our dreams, people yield themselves with perfect docility to our   molding hands.  The present eduction conventions of intellectual and     character education fade from their minds, and, unhampered by tradition,   we work our own good will upon a grateful and responsive folk.  We shall         not try to make these people, or any of their children, into philosophers,     or men of science.  We have not to raise up from them authors, educators,          poets or men of letters.  We shall not search for great artists, painters,       musicians nor lawyers, doctors, preachers, politicians, statesmen -- of      whom we have an ample supply.  The task is simple.  We will organize       children and teach them in a perfect way the things their fathers and        mothers are doing in an imperfect way."