A brutal polemic about America’s compulsory education system written by a former NYC schoolteacher. He comes pretty close to coming off like a psycho crank instead of a serious writer – I’d need to do some verification of his sources before I really came to an opinion on his conclusions. Still, brutal.
Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher’s Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling
author: | John Taylor Gatto (2008) |
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date read: | 2009-08-31 |
pages: | 240 |
rating: | ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ |