Weapons of Mass Instruction : A Schoolteacher's Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling.
Title:
Weapons of Mass Instruction : A Schoolteacher's Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling.
Author:
Gatto, John Taylor.
ISBN:
9781550924244
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (158 pages)
Contents:
Front Cover -- Advance Praise -- Title Page -- Rights Page -- Contents -- A Dedication for the Family Builders -- Prologue: Against School -- Chapter 1: Everything You Know about Schools is Wrong -- Chapter 2: Walkabout: London -- Chapter 3: Fat Stanley and the Lancaster Amish -- Chapter 4: David Sarnoff's Classroom -- Chapter 5: Hector Isn't the Problem -- Chapter 6: The Camino de Santiago -- Chapter 7: Weapons of Mass Instruction -- Chapter 8: What is Education? -- Chapter 9: A Letter to My Granddaughter About Dartmouth -- Chapter 10: Incident at Highland High -- Afterword -- Index -- About the Author.
Abstract:
The transformation of schooling from a twelve-year jail sentence to freedom to learn.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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