Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling

by John Taylor Gatto

Book Overview

The transformation of schooling from a twelve-year jail sentence to freedom to learn.

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 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0865716692
• ISBN13: 9780865716698
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: New Society Publishers
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"