Weapons of Mass Instruction (eBook)

A Schoolteacher's Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling

John Taylor Gatto (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2010
240 Seiten
New Society Publishers (Verlag)
9781550924244 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

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Expose 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 curiosityBreaking 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.

Autor

John Gatto was a teacher in New York City's public schools for over 30 years and is a recipient of the New York State Teacher of the Year award. A much-sought after speaker on education throughout the United States, his other books include A Different Kind of Teacher (Berkeley Hills Books, 2001) and The Underground History of American Education (Oxford Village Press, 2000).

Inhalt

Dedication

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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.4.2010
• Verlagsort: Gabriola Island
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Familie / Erziehung
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Schulbuch / Allgemeinbildende Schulen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: accept disconnections • Alternative • alternative approach to learning • Alternative Learning Approaches • alternative to public school • Broken • byproduct of rote memorization drills • charlotte mason education • Charter • Class • compulsory • Conformist • cripple imagination • Critical • democratic schooling • discourage critical thinking • Dumbing Us Down • Education • educational alternatives • educational choice books • educational freedom • education system problems • Elite • escaping the trap • false • false view of learning • Groupthink • Harm • harmful • History • Home • homeschool • Homeschooling • homeschool resources • Ideology • Independence • institutional • institutionalized • John Taylor Gatto • learning • life lessons • lived experiences • maria montessori methods • Mass • mechanisms of traditional education • natural alliances • New York • new york school teacher • Nonthinker • open source learning • progressive schooling methods • Propaganda • Public • school • Schooling • school is harmful • self reliance • Student • students and teachers • Sudbury schools • System • Teachers • Thinking • Unschooling • View
• ISBN-13: 9781550924244 / 9781550924244