John Taylor Gatto

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From A Letter to my Granddaughter about Dartmouth From: Weapons of Mass Instruction View New Society Publishers	You just turned 17 this month, granddaughter, and you’ll be leaving the nest for college soon, I suppose. I wish you wouldn’t, but I know better than to say that, so at least let me …	John Taylor Gatto	17	2010	$1.70 Add
From Afterword Invitation to an Open Conspiracy: The Bartleby Project From: Weapons of Mass Instruction View New Society Publishers	The whole diseased empire of institutional schooling is, like the wonderful one-horse shay, extremely fragile. Its most vulnerable point, the glue that holds the thing together, is standardized …	John Taylor Gatto	14	2010	$1.40 Add
From David Sarnoff’s Classroom From: Weapons of Mass Instruction View New Society Publishers	Sarnoff, the founder of RCA dropped out of elementary school to sell newspapers on the street. What he learned there he could never have learned in school.	John Taylor Gatto	12	2010	$1.20 Add
From Everything You Know About Schools is Wrong From: Weapons of Mass Instruction View New Society Publishers	Forced schooling seduces the trapped into believing that inert knowledge, memorized fact bits and sequences is the gold standard of intellectual achievement. Learning to connect those bits into …	John Taylor Gatto	26	2010	$2.60 Add
From Fat Stanley and the Lancaster Amish From: Weapons of Mass Instruction View New Society Publishers	Fat Stanley told me he had to cut school almost every day because he didn’t want to end up like me, working for someone else. He was 13 when he said that to me. An Amish man in Ohio told me …	John Taylor Gatto	9	2010	$0.90 Add
From Hector Isn’t the Problem From: Weapons of Mass Instruction View New Society Publishers	I was the official New York State Teacher of the Year when I quit on the op-ed page of the Wall Street Journal, because I couldn’t stand to hurt children any more.	John Taylor Gatto	7	2010	$0.70 Add
From Incident at Highland High From: Weapons of Mass Instruction View New Society Publishers	Last January, a sixteen-year-old German girl — shy and well-behaved — was arrested in her home in Nuremberg, Germany, by fifteen armed policemen. Her crime was homeschooling. Reading …	John Taylor Gatto	16	2010	$1.60 Add
From Prologue Against School From: Weapons of Mass Instruction View New Society Publishers	I taught for thirty years in some of the worst schools in Manhattan, and in some of the best, and during that time, I became an expert in boredom.	John Taylor Gatto	11	2010	$1.10 Add
From The Camino de Santiago From: Weapons of Mass Instruction View New Society Publishers	Inspired by the pilgrimage to St. James’ tomb which draws young and old from around the world each year to walk across Spain, I decided to help kids toward lives as producers rather than …	John Taylor Gatto	8	2010	$0.80 Add
From Walkabout London From: Weapons of Mass Instruction View New Society Publishers	Nick Schulman, a neighbor of mine, cut junior high to play pool, and dropped out of high school to play poker. He became a millionaire at the age of 21 this year, on the World Poker Tour. His new …	John Taylor Gatto	34	2010	$3.40 Add
Weapons of Mass Instruction A Schoolteacher’s Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling New Society Publishers	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 …	John Taylor Gatto	241	2010	View
From Weapons of Mass Instruction From: Weapons of Mass Instruction View New Society Publishers	The trapped flea strategy; ugliness; the horse-in-box effect; the artificial extension of childhood; misdirection; the cauldron of broken time: these and more are some deadly Weapons of Mass …	John Taylor Gatto	46	2010	$4.60 Add
From What is Education? From: Weapons of Mass Instruction View New Society Publishers	According to Kant, four questions live at the heart of all educational quests: What can I know? What may I hope? What ought I to do? What is man? School policy in America is made by people who …	John Taylor Gatto	12	2010	$1.20 Add