EPISODE · Dec 22, 2020 · 16 MIN
"Weapons of Mass Instruction" by John Taylor Gatto - Book Review
from Master of Life Awareness 🧠 · host Igor Turkusic - SF Walker
Mechanisms of traditional education cripple imagination, discourage critical thinking, and create a false view of learning as a byproduct of rote-memorization drills. Gatto demonstrates that the harm school inflicts is rational and deliberate. The real function of pedagogy, he argues, is to render the common population manageable. To that end, young people must be conditioned to rely upon experts, to remain divided from natural alliances and to accept disconnections from their own lived experiences. They must at all costs be discouraged from developing self-reliance and independence. Make sure the schooling system teaches our children: 1. Self-knowledge 2. Observation 3. Feedback 4. Analysis 5. Mirroring 6. Expression 7. Judgment 8. Adding Value "Weapons of Mass Instruction" by John Taylor Gatto - Book Review Book of the Week - BOTW - Season 2 Book 19 Buy the book on Amazon https://amzn.to/2WhOi8Y GET IT. READ :) FIND OUT which HUMAN NEED is driving all of your behavior http://6-human-needs.sfwalker.com/ Human Needs Psychology + Emotional Intelligence + Universal Laws of Nature = MASTER OF LIFE AWARENESS https://www.sfwalker.com/master-life-awareness
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Mechanisms of traditional education cripple imagination, discourage critical thinking, and create a false view of learning as a byproduct of rote-memorization drills. Gatto demonstrates that the harm school inflicts is rational and deliberate. The real function of pedagogy, he argues, is to render the common population manageable. To that end, young people must be conditioned to rely upon experts, to remain divided from natural alliances and to accept disconnections from their own lived experiences. They must at all costs be discouraged from developing self-reliance and independence. Make sure the schooling system teaches our children: 1. Self-knowledge 2. Observation 3. Feedback 4. Analysis 5. Mirroring 6. Expression 7. Judgment 8. Adding Value "Weapons of Mass Instruction" by John Taylor Gatto - Book Review Book of the Week - BOTW - Season 2 Book 19 Buy the book on Amazon https://amzn.to/2WhOi8Y GET IT. READ :) FIND OUT which HUMAN NEED is driving all of your behavior http://6-human-needs.sfwalker.com/ Human Needs Psychology + Emotional Intelligence + Universal Laws of Nature = MASTER OF LIFE AWARENESS https://www.sfwalker.com/master-life-awareness
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