Discourse


Discourse and Social Change
Orientalism
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure
Discourse on Colonialism
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
The Wretched of the Earth
Letters to a Young Contrarian
Discourse (The New Critical Idiom)
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
The Origins of Totalitarianism
The Republic
I.W.W. Songs to Fan the Flames of Discontent by Industrial Workers of the W...A Discreet Gentleman of Discovery by Kris TuallaSea of Glory by Nathaniel PhilbrickDiscovering Scarfolk by Richard LittlerDisco For The Departed by Colin Cotterill
'Disco'
213 books — 7 voters
BREAKING THE BIAS OF ENGLISH by Vivian ProbstMan Made Language by Dale SpenderLanguage and Woman's Place by Robin Tolmach LakoffPronoun Envy by Anna LiviaLanguage and Gender by Penelope Eckert
Feminist linguistics
39 books — 17 voters

The Republic by PlatoThe Prince by Niccolò MachiavelliCritique of Pure Reason by Immanuel KantThe Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. KuhnThe Will to Power by Friedrich Nietzsche
Knowledge
216 books — 142 voters

John Taylor Gatto
Networks like schools are not communities, just as school training is not education.
John Taylor Gatto, Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

John Taylor Gatto
I assign a type of extended schooling called “homework,” so that the effect of surveillance, if not the surveillance itself, travels into private households, where students might otherwise use free time to learn something unauthorized from a father or mother, by exploration or by apprenticing to some wise person in the neighborhood.
John Taylor Gatto, Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

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