The Underground History of American Education by Gatto, John Taylor -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Contents PROLOGUE

Bianca, You Animal, Shut Up! 2. I Quit, I Think 3. The New Individualism 4. School As Religion 5. He Was Square Inside And Brown 6. The New Dumbness 7. Putting Pedagogy To The Question 8. Author’s Note

PART ONE Of Schooling, Education, And Myself

CHAPTER ONE The Way It Used To Be

A Nation From The Bottom Up You Had To Do It Yourself No Limit To Pain For Those Who Allow It The Art Of Driving Two Approaches To Discipline The Schools Of Hellas The Fresco At Herculaneum The Seven Liberal Arts The Platonic Ideal Oriental Pedagogy Counter-Attack On Democracy How Hindu Schooling Came To America (I) How Hindu Schooling Came To America (II) Braddock’s Defeat Farragut Ben Franklin George Washington Montaigne’s Curriculum

CHAPTER TWO An Angry Look at Modern Schooling

A Change In The Governing Mind Extending Childhood The Geneticist’s Manifesto Participatory Democracy Put To The Sword Bad Character As A Management Tool An Enclosure Movement For Children The Dangan Occasional Letter Number One Change Agents Infiltrate Bionomics Waking Up Angry

CHAPTER THREE Eyeless in Gaza

The School Edition Intellectual Espionage Looking Behind Appearances The Sudbury Valley School Bootie Zimmer False Premises A System Of State Propaganda The Ideology Of The Text The National Adult Literacy Survey Name Sounds, Not Things The Meatgrinder Classroom The Ignorant Schoolmaster Frank Had A Dog; His Name Was Spot The Pedagogy Of Literacy Dick And Jane

CHAPTER FOUR I Quit, I Think

Wadleigh, The Death School Dr. Caleb Gattegno, Expert Intimidation Hector Of The Feeble-Mind Hector Isn't The Problem One Lawyer Equals 3,000 Reams Of Paper The Great Transformation Education As A Helix Sport I'm Outta Here!

PART TWO The Foundations Of Schooling

CHAPTER FIVE True Believers And The Unspeakable Chautauqua

Munsterberg And His Disciples The Prototype Is A Schoolteacher Teachers College Maintains The Planet A Lofty, Somewhat Inhuman Vision Rain Forest Algebra Godless, But Not Irreligious An Insider’s Insider Compulsion Schooling De-Moralizing School Procedure Cardinal Principles The Unspeakable Chautauqua

CHAPTER SIX The Lure of Utopia

So Fervently Do We Believe The Necessity Of Detachment Enlarging The Nervous System The Parens Patriae Powers The Plan Advances Children’s Court Mr. Young’s Head Was Pounded To Jelly William Rainey Harper Death Dies Three Most Significant Books No Place To Hide The Irony Of The Safety Lamp

CHAPTER SEVEN The Prussian Connection

The Land of Frankenstein The Long Reach Of The Teutonic Knights The Prussian Reform Movement Travelers' Reports Finding Work For Intellectuals The Technology Of Subjection The German /American Reichsbank

CHAPTER EIGHT A Coal-Fired Dream World

Coal At The Bottom Of Things The Demon Of Overproduction The Quest For Arcadia Managerial Utopia The Positive Method Plato’s Guardians Far-Sighted Businessmen Coal Gives The Coup De Grâce The Spectre Of Uncontrolled Breeding Global Associations Of Technique Labor Becomes Expendable Burying Children Alive The End Of Competition America Is Massified German Mind Science

CHAPTER NINE The Cult Of Scientific Management

Frederick W. Taylor The Adoption Of Business Organization By Schools The Ford System And The Kronstadt Commune The National Press Attack On Academic Schooling The Fabian Spirit The Open Conspiracy An Everlasting Faith The Jewish Student Riots The Rockefeller Report Obstacles On The Road To Centralization

PART THREE A Personal Interlude

CHAPTER TEN My Green River

The Character Of A Village Singing And Fishing Were Free The Greatest Fun Was Watching People Work Sitting In The Dark I Hung Around A Lot In Monongahela Shooting Birds On Punishment Separations Principles Frances "Bootie" Zimmer Walking Around Monongahela The College Of Zimmer And Hegel

PART FOUR Metamorphosis

CHAPTER ELEVEN The Crunch

The Struggle For Homogeneity Eugenics Arrives Mr. Hitler Reads Mr. Ford Racial Suicide The Passing Of The Great Race The Poison Of Democracy The American Protective League Guaranteed Customers Industrial Efficiency High-Pressure Salesmanship A New Collectivism

CHAPTER TWELVE Daughters of the Barons Of Runnemede

A Scientifically Humane Future Exclusive Heredity Divinely Appointed Intelligence The Paxton Boys Soldiers For Their Class Organizing Caste Your Family Tree The Fatal Sound Shift Our Manifest Destiny The Lost Tribes Unpopular Government Kinship Is Mythical The Machine Gun Builds Hotchkiss Fountains Of Business Wealth The General Education Board And Friends

CHAPTER THIRTEEN The Empty Child

Miss Skinner Sleeps Scientifically Behaviorists Plasticity Elasticity Emptiness: The Master Theory A Metaphysical Commitment The Limits Of Behavioral Theory Reality Engages The Banana Programming The Empty Child Dr. Watson Presumes Cleaning The Canvas Therapy As Curriculum The New Thought Tide To Abolish Thinking Wundt! Napoleon Of Mind Science What Is Sanity? Bending The Student To Reality Paying Children To Learn

CHAPTER FOURTEEN Absolute Absolution

The Problem Of God Spirits Are Dangerous Foundations Of The Western Outlook Codes Of Meaning The Scientific Curriculum Everson v. Board Of Education (1947) Judaism The Dalai Lama And The Genius Of The West Religion And Rationality The Illusion Of Punishment

CHAPTER FIFTEEN The Psychopathology Of Everyday Schooling

An Arena Of Dishonesty The Game Is Crooked Psychopathic Programming What Really Goes On Pathology As A Natural Byproduct

PART FIVE The Problem Of Modern Schooling

CHAPTER SIXTEEN A Conspiracy Against Ourselves

Two Social Revolutions Become One The Fear Of Common Intelligence The Cult Of Forced Schooling Disinherited Men And Women Serving The Imperial Virus Quill-Driving Babus The Release From Tutelage

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN The Politics Of Schooling

Three Holes In My Floor Power ÷ 22 Valhalla I’m A Flunky, So’s My Kid It’s Not Your Money A Billion, Six For KC Education’s Most Powerful Voice Letter To The Editor A Quality Education Who Controls American Education? The Logical Tragedy Of Benson, Vermont Natural Selection The Great Transformation Propaganda Freud’s Nephew Magic At Work The Culture Of Big Business Four Kinds Of Classroom The Planetary Management Corporation

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Breaking Out Of The Trap

Silicon Valley Deregulating Opportunity Selling From Your Truck Mudsill Theory Autonomous Technology The Bell Curve George Meegan Necking In The Guardhouse Tania Aebi A Fool’s Bargain Roland Legiardi-Laura The Squeeze Wendy Zeigler /Amy Halpern A Magnificent Memory Prince Charles Visits Steel Valley High Empty Children Schoolbooks Almost The End I Would Prefer Not To Nuts And Bolts

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