With over 70,000 copies of the first edition in print, this radical treatise on public education has been a New Society Publishers' bestseller for 10 years! Thirty years in New York City's public schools led John Gatto to the sad conclusion that compulsory schooling does little but teach young people to follow orders like cogs in an industrial machine. This second edition describes the wide-spread impact of the book and Gatto's "guerrilla teaching".
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| Introduction to the Second Edition |
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| Publisher's Note-from the First Edition |
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| About the Author |
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xxxiii | |
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The Seven-Lesson Schoolteacher |
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1 | (19) |
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20 | (15) |
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35 | (11) |
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We Need Less School, Not More |
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46 | (27) |
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The Congregational Principle |
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73 | (22) |
| Afterword: Ten Years Later |
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In this tenth-anniversary edition, Gatto updates his theories on how the U.S. educational system cranks out students the way Detroit cranks out Buicks. He contends that students are more programmed to conform to economic and social norms rather than really taught to think. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.
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