Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher’s Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling - John Taylor Gatto Audiobook
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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.
©2009 John Taylor Gatto (P)2012 Post Hypnotic Press Inc.
Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
Release date: 02-26-13
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This post has 3 comments with rating of 5/5
September 7th, 2024
J T Gatto has led the charge against education in America for the last half-century, and has become the darling of the Churches in the process.
As a great Welshman once said: It is good to have friends, it is necessary to have enemies.
September 8th, 2024
More John Taylor Gatto please!
September 17th, 2024
pryderi, Gatto has led the charge against schooling, not education. They are not the same thing. I’m 59 and my education is ongoing. If you are an autodidact the curriculum is never ending. I will continue on until my brain or body gives out. In truth, it is as much of an obsession as it is a choice.
Do they still make American kids chant the Pledge of Allegiance every morning in school? My American cousin told me about that in the 1970’s - being forced to pledge allegiance every morning is the opposite of freedom.
Kids, K to 12, bending the knee 5 days a week as part of their schooling. Sounds like Communist brain washing.
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