![]() ![]() ![]() He also draws a contrast between communities and “networks,” with communities being healthy, and schools being examples of networks. It makes it clear to them that they cannot hide, because they are always supervised. It teaches them a kind of self-confidence that requires constant confirmation by experts (provisional self-esteem).ħ. It makes them intellectually dependent.Ħ. It teaches them to accept their class affiliation.ĥ. One sees and hears something, only to forget it again.Ģ. Apart from the tests and trials, this programming is similar to the television it fills almost all the “free” time of children. ![]() It presents an incoherent ensemble of information that the child needs to memorize to stay in school. This is the essence of John Taylor Gatto’s argument against the predominant form of modern schooling in the United States and around the world:ġ. He was named New York City Teacher of the Year in 1989, 1990, and 1991, and New York State Teacher of the Year in 1991. He was the kind of life-changing teacher that transforms the lives of his students and empower them to realize their creative potential (I recommend watching Dead Poet’s Society for a good example of the power of a life-changing teacher). Gatto was a revolutionary educator and the author of an excellent history of modern schooling called Weapons of Mass Instruction. ![]() I discovered John Taylor Gatto when I when I read the book Bomb The Suburbs as a teenager. ![]()
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