Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling
In Weapons of Mass Instruction, schoolteacher John Taylor Gatto takes readers on a critical journey through compulsory schooling. Examining education from a teacher’s perspective, the book questions the role of institutional learning and encourages readers to reconsider how schools shape individuals and society.
About This Book
John Taylor Gatto presents a schoolteacher’s perspective on compulsory schooling and its wider effects.
The book explores education as an institution, focusing on the tensions and consequences associated with mandatory systems of schooling.
It offers a critical examination of how schools influence individual development and social life.
Written as a teacher’s journey, the work invites readers to reconsider familiar assumptions about education.
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