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John Taylor Gatto's Weapons of Mass Instructions focuses on mechanisms of traditional education which cripple thoughts, discourage critical thinking, and make a phony view of learning as a byproduct of rote-memorization drills. Gatto's early reserve, Dumbing Us Down, introduced the now-famous manifestation of the name in to the common vernacular. Weapons of Mass Instructions brings another chilling metaphor to the quick against regular schooling. Gatto shows that the damage college inflicts is rational and deliberate. The true function of pedagogy, he argues, is to render the common populace manageable. To that end, teenagers must be conditioned to count upon experts, to stay divided from natural alliances and also to accept disconnections from their own lived experiences. They must at all costs be discouraged from producing self-reliance and self-reliance. Escaping this snare requires a strategy Gatto calls "open source learning" which imposes no unnatural divisions between learning and life. Through this substitute approach our kids can you shouldn't be indoctrinated-only then can they achieve self-knowledge, good common sense, and courage.
