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BL
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599802
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GBA8B6444b429021
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GBA8B6444b429021
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| Main Entry
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Gatto, John Taylor.
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| Title & Author
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Weapons of mass instruction : : a schoolteacher's journey through the dark world of compulsory schooling /\ John Taylor Gatto.
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| Publication Statement
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Gabriola Island, B.C. :: New Society Publishers,, c2009.
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215 p. :: port. ;; 24 cm.
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| ISBN
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9780865716315 (bound)
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: 0865716315 (bound)
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: 9780865716698 (pbk.)
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: 0865716692 (pbk.)
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| Contents
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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.
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| Abstract
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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.
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| Subject
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Education, Compulsory-- United States.
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Educational sociology-- United States.
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Education-- United States-- Aims and objectives.
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Education-- Philosophy.
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| Dewey Classification
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379.2/30973
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| LC Classification
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LC131.G38 2009
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