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The underground history of American education, a schoolteacher's intimate investigation into the problem of modern schooling, John Taylor Gatto

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The underground history of American education, a schoolteacher's intimate investigation into the problem of modern schooling, John Taylor Gatto

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (page 392) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The underground history of American education

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

52974619

Responsibility statement

John Taylor Gatto

Sub title

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

Table Of Contents

Part one. Of schooling, education, and myself -- 1. The way it used to be -- 2. An angry look at modern schooling -- 3. Eyeless in Gaza -- 4. I quit, I think -- Part two. The foundation of schooling -- 5. True believers and the unspeakable Chautauqua -- 6. The lure of utopia -- 7. The Prussian connection -- 8. A coal-fired dream world -- 9. The cult of scientific management -- Part three. A personal interlude -- 10. My green river -- Part four. Metamorphosis -- 11. The crunch -- 12. Daughters of the barons of runnemede -- 13. The empty child -- 14. Absolute Absolution -- 15. The psychopathology of everyday schooling -- Part five. The prison of modern schooling -- 16. A conspiracy against ourselves -- 17. The politics of schooling -- 18. Breaking out of the trap -- Epilogue

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