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Weapons of Mass Instruction : A Schoolteacher's Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling by John Taylor Gatto (2010, Trade Paperback)
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PublisherNew Society Publishers, The Limited
ISBN-100865716692
ISBN-139780865716698
eBay Product ID (ePID)78825611
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Book TitleWeapons of Mass Instruction : A Schoolteacher's Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling
Number of Pages240 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicEducational Policy & Reform / General, Education, Sociology / General, History, Educators
Publication Year2010
IllustratorYes
GenreFamily & Relationships, Social Science, Education, Biography & Autobiography
AuthorJohn Taylor Gatto
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight12.7 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
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Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal379.23
Table Of ContentDedication Prologue: Against School 1 Everything You Know about Schools is Wrong 2 Walkabout: London 3 Fat Stanley and the Lancaster Amish 4 David Sarnoff's Classroom 5 Hector Isn't the Problem 6 The Camino de Santiago 7 Weapons of Mass Instruction 8 What is Education? 9 A Letter to my Granddaughter about Dartmouth 10 Incident at Highland High Afterword: Invitation to an Open Conspiracy: The Bartleby Project Index About the Author
SynopsisExpose the hidden mechanisms that turn curious children into compliant workers. John Taylor Gatto's explosive follow-up to Dumbing Us Down reveals the specific techniques schools use to destroy imagination, discourage critical thinking, and create a false view of learning as rote memorization rather than creative discovery. The Weaponization of Education: This isn't conspiracy theory - it's documented history. Gatto traces how compulsory schooling was deliberately designed by industrialists to create predictable, manageable workers, not independent thinkers or entrepreneurs. What You'll Uncover: Historical evidence of how modern schooling was designed to serve industrial interests Psychological manipulation techniques used to break children's natural learning instincts The testing industrial complex that profits from keeping children dependent and confused Alternative learning models that actually develop human potential and creativity Practical steps for protecting your child's intellectual development and natural curiosity Breaking Free from Educational Control: Thousands of families have used Gatto's insights to create educational alternatives that honor children's natural genius while preparing them for success in the real world, not just the artificial world of institutional schooling. Continue your educational freedom journey. If Dumbing Us Down opened your eyes, this book will show you exactly how to fight back against the systematic destruction of human potential., Compulsory schooling cripples imagination, critical thinking, and strips youth of their best qualities, producing a nation of employees. Weapons of Mass Instruction shows how to escape this trap and help develop more meaningful lives., The transformation of schooling from a twelve-year jail sentence to freedom to learn. John Taylor Gatto's Weapons of Mass Instruction , now available in paperback, focuses on mechanisms of traditional education which cripple imagination, discourage critical thinking, and create a false view of learning as a byproduct of rote-memorization drills. Gatto's earlier book, Dumbing Us Down , introduced the now-famous expression of the title into the common vernacular. Weapons of Mass Instruction adds another chilling metaphor to the brief against conventional schooling. Gatto demonstrates that the harm school inflicts is rational and deliberate. The real function of pedagogy, he argues, is to render the common population manageable. To that end, young people must be conditioned to rely upon experts, to remain divided from natural alliances and to accept disconnections from their own lived experiences. They must at all costs be discouraged from developing self-reliance and independence. Escaping this trap requires a strategy Gatto calls "open source learning" which imposes no artificial divisions between learning and life. Through this alternative approach our children can avoid being indoctrinated-only then can they achieve self-knowledge, good judgment, and courage.
LC Classification NumberLC131
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