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Item Information       Summary     More Content     More by this author     Gatto, John Taylor.     Subjects     Education, Compulsory -- United States.     Educational sociology -- United States.     Education -- Aims and objectives -- United States.     Education -- Philosophy.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Gatto, John Taylor.       by title:      Weapons of mass inst...         MARC Display

Weapons of mass instruction [electronic resource] : a schoolteacher's journey through the dark world of compulsory schooling / John Taylor Gatto. by Gatto, John Taylor. [Beverly Hills] : Post Hypnotic Press Inc., 2012. Subjects Education, Compulsory -- United States.   Educational sociology -- United States.   Education -- Aims and objectives -- United States.   Education -- Philosophy. Electronic Resource http://hawaii.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=67F4C66E-FC60-44DF-B39F-B62173C446E6 This title is available online; click here to access Electronic Resource http://excerpts.contentreserve.com/FormatType-25/2222-1/1274505-WeaponsOfMassInstruction.wma Electronic Resource http://excerpts.contentreserve.com/FormatType-425/2222-1/1274505-WeaponsOfMassInstruction.mp3 ISBN:  9780986657610 (electronic audio bk.) 0986657611 (electronic audio bk.) Description:  1 online resource (1 sound file (08 hr., 33 min., 37 sec.)) : digital. Edition:  Unabridged. Requests:  0 Summary:  John Taylor Gatto's WEAPONS OF MASS INSTRUCTION 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.   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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