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a schoolteacher's intimate investigation into the problem of modern schooling

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An edition of The underground history of American education (2003)

The underground history of American education

a schoolteacher's intimate investigation into the problem of modern schooling

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A former teacher, Gatto left the classroom the same year he was named New York State Teacher of the Year. He announced his decision in a letter to the Wall Street Jounal titled "I Quit, I Think".

Using anecdotes gathered from thirty years of teaching, alongside documentation, Gatto presents his view of modern compulsion schooling as opposed to genuine education, describing a "conflict between systems which offer physical safety and certainty at the cost of suppressing free will, and those which offer liberty at the price of constant risk".

Gatto argues that educational strategies promoted by government and industry leaders for over a century included the creation of a system that keeps real power in the hands of very few people.

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Oxford Village Press
Language
English
Pages
412

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Subjects
Education, History, Aims and objectives, Experimental methods, Evaluation, Philosophy, Education and state, Social aspects of Education, Social aspects
Places
United States
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History of the American education system

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2003, Oxford Village Press
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Includes index.

"This is the third and last pre-publication edition"--T.p. verso.

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New York

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Library of Congress
PS3557.R1987 O5 1993

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Pagination
xxxiv, 412 p. :
Number of pages
412

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OL15545471M
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94171193
OCLC/WorldCat
52974619, 45004688
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167797
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1021127

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