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(0)John Taylor Gatto
Author
Publisher
New Society Publishers
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
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
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Publisher
Big Happy Family, LLC
Language
English
Description
John Taylor Gatto's radical treatise on public education, a New Society Publishers bestseller for 25 years, continues to advocate for the unshackling of children and learning from formal schooling. Now, in an ever-more-rapidly changing world with an explosion of alternative routes to learning, it's poised to continue to shake the world of institutional education for many more years.