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Author Gatto, John Taylor Author.
Title Weapons of mass instruction : a schoolteacher's journey through the dark world of compulsory schooling / John Taylor Gatto.
Imprint Gabriola Island, B.C. New Society Publishers, c2009
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Descript 215 p. port. 24 cm.
Contents Prologue : against school -- Everything you know about schools is wrong -- Walkabout : London -- Fat Stanley and the Lancaster Amish -- David Sarnoff's classroom -- Hector isn't the problem -- The Camino de Santiago -- Weapons of mass instruction -- What is education? -- A letter to my granddaughter about Dartmouth -- Incident at Highland High -- Afterword : invitation to an open conspiracy : the Bartleby Project
Summary The author accuses compulsory education methods of stifling imaginations and critical thinking skills, and discusses individuals such as Thomas Edison, John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, who are considered to have exceptional minds, even though they but did not follow traditional education paths
Subject Utbildningsmål
Utbildningssociologi
Skolplikt
Utbildning -- teori, filosofi
Education, Compulsory -- United States
Educational sociology -- United States
Education -- Aims and objectives -- United States
Education -- Philosophy
USA
Förenta staterna
USA
Scolarité obligatoire -- États-Unis
Sociologie de l'éducation -- États-Unis
Skolan
Éducation -- États-Unis -- Finalités
Éducation -- Philosophie
USA
ISBN 9780865716315 bound
0865716315 bound
9780865716698 pbk.
0865716692 pbk.
Class. 379.230973
Em
DK 1012
DV 2850
379.2/30973


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