Dumbing Us Down The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
Author: John Taylor Gatto Publisher: Gabriola Island, Canada: New Society Publishers Publish Date: 1992 Status:⏳ Rating:
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Nebulas
- Dumbing Us Down The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling Chapter 1. The Seven-Lesson Schoolteacher 1
- Dumbing Us Down The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling Chapter 2. The Psychopathic School
- Dumbing Us Down The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling Chapter 3. We Need Less School, Not More
- Dumbing Us Down The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling Chapter 6. Against School
Notes
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- Forced material and class schedules leads students to become indifferent towards self-initiaited learning
- Schools encourage intellectual dependency towards authority by discouraging inquiry
- School grades teach students to believe that their self-worth depends on expert opinion
- The numbering, grading, and ordering of students conditions them to tacitly accept their hierachical position
- The use of positive and negative reinforcement in schools condition students for emotional dependence on authority
- Public schooling fosters confusion through a fragmented and out of context material
- Schools maintain a continuous present by seperating children and old people from adults
- We need to adopt a means of education which embraces independent study and encourages self-reliance
- A school reform should reintigrate the family
- Alexander Inglis six basic functions of school
- The US public schooling system has its roots in Prussia
- Public schools serve to manufacture a manageable population and to put down dissent and originality
- The propaedeutic function
- The selective function
- The integrating function
- The differentiating function
- The adaptive function