Education System


The Case Against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Why Don't Students Like School?: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom
Creative Schools: The Grassroots Revolution That's Transforming Education
Out of Our Minds: Learning to Be Creative
Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World
Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education
Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life
Deschooling Society
The Dangerous Rise of Therapeutic Education
We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom
A New Culture of Learning: Cultivating the Imagination for a World of Constant Change
DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education
Five Minds for the Future (Leadership for the Common Good)
John Taylor Gatto
Children learn what they live. Put kids in a class and they will live out their lives in an invisible cage, isolated from their chance at community; interrupt kids with bells and horns all the time and they will learn that nothing is important or worth finishing; ridicule them and they will retreat from human association; shame them and they will find a hundred ways to get even. The habits taught in large-scale organizations are deadly.
John Taylor Gatto

Tanya R. Liverman
Respect is not the equivalent to 'liking' a student or teacher; it is the ability to have a high regard for the role of another. In order to receive respect, we should demonstrate it first... ...more
Tanya R. Liverman, Memoirs of an Educarer: An Inspiration for Education

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