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The difference between schools and libraries
From John Taylor Gatto’s The Underground History of American Education (via Austin Kleon):
From John Taylor Gatto’s The Underground History of American Education (via Austin Kleon):
To begin with, libraries are usually comfortable, clean, and quiet. They are orderly places where you can actually read instead of just pretending to read.... See more
For some reason libraries are never age-segregated, nor do t
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Dumbing Us Down - 25th Anniversary Edition: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
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Independent study, community service, adventures and experience, large doses of privacy and solitude, a thousand different apprenticeships—the one-day variety or longer—these are all powerful, cheap, and effective ways to start a real reform of schooling.
John Taylor Gatto • Dumbing Us Down - 25th Anniversary Edition: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
We have a public imagination that cannot conceive of what exactly to do with children, especially smart children. We fail to properly respect them through adolescence, so we have engineered them to be useless, and so they shuffle through a decade of busywork. Partly, the length of schooling has increased simply because it could—because we no longer
... See moreSimon Sarris • School Is Not Enough
