Author(s): John Taylor Gatto
Edition: 2nd ed
Year: 2000
Language: English
Pages: 304
Title......Page 1
Contents......Page 2
Bianca, You Animal, Shut Up!......Page 12
2. I Quit, I Think......Page 13
3. The New Individualism......Page 14
4. School As Religion......Page 15
5. He Was Square Inside And Brown......Page 16
6. The New Dumbness......Page 17
7. Putting Pedagogy To The Question......Page 18
8. Author’s Note......Page 19
A Nation From The Bottom Up......Page 21
You Had To Do It Yourself......Page 22
The Art Of Driving......Page 24
Two Approaches To Discipline......Page 25
The Schools Of Hellas......Page 27
The Fresco At Herculaneum......Page 28
The Seven Liberal Arts......Page 29
Counter-Attack On Democracy......Page 30
How Hindu Schooling Came To America (I)......Page 31
How Hindu Schooling Came To America (II)......Page 32
How Hindu Schooling Came To America (III)......Page 33
Braddock’s Defeat......Page 35
Farragut......Page 36
Ben Franklin......Page 37
George Washington......Page 41
Montaigne’s Curriculum......Page 43
Extending Childhood......Page 45
Participatory Democracy Put To The Sword......Page 47
Bad Character As A Management Tool......Page 48
An Enclosure Movement For Children......Page 49
The Dangan......Page 50
Change Agents Infiltrate......Page 51
Bionomics......Page 52
Waking Up Angry......Page 53
The School Edition......Page 54
Intellectual Espionage......Page 56
Looking Behind Appearances......Page 58
Bootie Zimmer......Page 60
A System Of State Propaganda......Page 61
The National Adult Literacy Survey......Page 62
Name Sounds, Not Things......Page 63
The Meatgrinder Classroom......Page 65
The Ignorant Schoolmaster......Page 66
Frank Had A Dog; His Name Was Spot......Page 67
The Pedagogy Of Literacy......Page 69
Dick And Jane......Page 70
Wadleigh, The Death School......Page 73
Dr. Caleb Gattegno, Expert......Page 75
Hector Of The Feeble-Mind......Page 77
Hector Isn't The Problem......Page 78
One Lawyer Equals 3,000 Reams Of Paper......Page 80
The Great Transformation......Page 82
Education As A Helix Sport......Page 84
I'm Outta Here!......Page 85
Munsterberg And His Disciples......Page 86
The Prototype Is A Schoolteacher......Page 87
Teachers College Maintains The Planet......Page 88
Rain Forest Algebra......Page 89
Godless, But Not Irreligious......Page 90
An Insider’s Insider......Page 92
De-Moralizing School Procedure......Page 93
William Torrey Harris......Page 95
Cardinal Principles......Page 97
The Unspeakable Chautauqua......Page 99
So Fervently Do We Believe......Page 103
The Necessity Of Detachment......Page 104
Producing Artificial Wants......Page 105
The Parens Patriae Powers......Page 106
The Plan Advances......Page 107
Mr. Young’s Head Was Pounded To Jelly......Page 108
William Rainey Harper......Page 109
Death Dies......Page 110
Three Most Significant Books......Page 112
The Irony Of The Safety Lamp......Page 113
The Land of Frankenstein......Page 115
The Long Reach Of The Teutonic Knights......Page 117
The Prussian Reform Movement......Page 119
Travelers' Reports......Page 120
Finding Work For Intellectuals......Page 122
The Technology Of Subjection......Page 123
The German /American Reichsbank......Page 125
Coal At The Bottom Of Things......Page 126
The Demon Of Overproduction......Page 127
The Quest For Arcadia......Page 128
Managerial Utopia......Page 129
The Positive Method......Page 130
Plato’s Guardians......Page 131
Far-Sighted Businessmen......Page 134
Coal Gives The Coup De Grâce......Page 135
The Spectre Of Uncontrolled Breeding......Page 136
Global Associations Of Technique......Page 137
Labor Becomes Expendable......Page 138
Burying Children Alive......Page 139
The End Of Competition......Page 140
America Is Massified......Page 141
German Mind Science......Page 142
Frederick W. Taylor......Page 144
The Adoption Of Business Organization By Schools......Page 146
The Ford System And The Kronstadt Commune......Page 147
The National Press Attack On Academic Schooling......Page 148
The Fabian Spirit......Page 149
The Open Conspiracy......Page 152
An Everlasting Faith......Page 154
Regulating Lives Like Machinery......Page 155
The Gary Plan......Page 156
The Jewish Student Riots......Page 157
The Rockefeller Report......Page 158
Obstacles On The Road To Centralization......Page 160
The Character Of A Village......Page 162
Singing And Fishing Were Free......Page 163
Sitting In The Dark......Page 164
I Hung Around A Lot In Monongahela......Page 165
Shooting Birds......Page 167
On Punishment......Page 168
Separations......Page 169
Principles......Page 173
Frances "Bootie" Zimmer......Page 174
The College Of Zimmer And Hegel......Page 176
The Struggle For Homogeneity......Page 178
Eugenics Arrives......Page 179
Mr. Hitler Reads Mr. Ford......Page 180
Racial Suicide......Page 181
The Passing Of The Great Race......Page 183
The American Protective League......Page 185
Industrial Efficiency......Page 186
High-Pressure Salesmanship......Page 188
A New Collectivism......Page 189
Exclusive Heredity......Page 190
Divinely Appointed Intelligence......Page 191
Soldiers For Their Class......Page 192
Organizing Caste......Page 193
Your Family Tree......Page 194
The Fatal Sound Shift......Page 195
Our Manifest Destiny......Page 196
The Lost Tribes......Page 197
Kinship Is Mythical......Page 198
The Machine Gun Builds Hotchkiss......Page 199
Fountains Of Business Wealth......Page 200
The General Education Board And Friends......Page 201
Miss Skinner Sleeps Scientifically......Page 206
Behaviorists......Page 207
Plasticity......Page 208
Elasticity......Page 209
Emptiness: The Master Theory......Page 211
A Metaphysical Commitment......Page 212
Reality Engages The Banana......Page 213
Programming The Empty Child......Page 214
Dr. Watson Presumes......Page 215
Cleaning The Canvas......Page 216
Therapy As Curriculum......Page 217
The New Thought Tide......Page 218
To Abolish Thinking......Page 219
Wundt!......Page 220
Napoleon Of Mind Science......Page 221
What Is Sanity?......Page 222
Bending The Student To Reality......Page 224
Paying Children To Learn......Page 225
The Problem Of God......Page 228
Foundations Of The Western Outlook......Page 229
Codes Of Meaning......Page 230
The Scientific Curriculum......Page 231
Everson v. Board Of Education (1947)......Page 232
Judaism......Page 233
The Dalai Lama And The Genius Of The West......Page 234
Religion And Rationality......Page 236
The Illusion Of Punishment......Page 238
An Arena Of Dishonesty......Page 241
Psychopathic Programming......Page 243
What Really Goes On......Page 245
Pathology As A Natural Byproduct......Page 246
A Critical Appraisal......Page 247
Vox Populi......Page 248
The Systems Idea In Action......Page 249
Two Social Revolutions Become One......Page 250
The Fear Of Common Intelligence......Page 251
The Cult Of Forced Schooling......Page 252
Disinherited Men And Women......Page 255
Serving The Imperial Virus......Page 256
Quill-Driving Babus......Page 257
The Release From Tutelage......Page 259
Three Holes In My Floor......Page 260
Power ÷ 22......Page 262
Valhalla......Page 264
It’s Not Your Money......Page 265
A Billion, Six For KC......Page 266
Education’s Most Powerful Voice......Page 267
Letter To The Editor......Page 268
Who Controls American Education?......Page 269
The Logical Tragedy Of Benson, Vermont......Page 270
Natural Selection......Page 272
The Great Transformation......Page 275
Propaganda......Page 276
Freud’s Nephew......Page 277
The Culture Of Big Business......Page 278
Four Kinds Of Classroom......Page 280
The Planetary Management Corporation......Page 281
Silicon Valley......Page 282
Deregulating Opportunity......Page 283
Mudsill Theory......Page 285
Autonomous Technology......Page 288
Necking In The Guardhouse......Page 290
A Fool’s Bargain......Page 292
The Squeeze......Page 293
A Magnificent Memory......Page 294
Prince Charles Visits Steel Valley High......Page 295
Empty Children......Page 296
Almost The End......Page 297
I Would Prefer Not To......Page 298
Nuts And Bolts......Page 300
EPILOGUE......Page 303
