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Author Gatto, John Taylor.

Title Weapons of mass instruction : a schoolteacher's journey through the dark world of compulsory schooling / John Taylor Gatto.

Imprint Gabriola Island, B.C. : New Society Publishers, c2009.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  379.23 G229w 2009    ---  Available
Description 215 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents 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.
Subject Education, Compulsory -- United States.
Educational sociology -- United States.
Education -- Aims and objectives -- United States.
Education -- Philosophy.
ISBN 9780865716315
0865716315
Standard No. NLC 20089064976
AU@ 000043805118
NZ1 12874120

 
    
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