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Prologue
The shocking possibility that dumb people don't exist in sufficient numbers to warrant the millions of
careers devoted to tending them will seem incredible to you. Yet that is my central proposition: the mass
dumbness which justifies official schooling first had to be dreamed of; it isn't real.
〈 Bianca, You Animal, Shut Up!
〈 I Quit, I Think
〈 The New Individualism
〈 School As Religion
〈 He Was Square Inside And Brown
〈 The New Dumbness
〈 Putting Pedagogy To The Question
〈 Author's Note
PART ONE
Of Schooling, Education, And Myself
Chapter One
The Way It Used To Be
Our official assumptions about the nature of modern childhood are dead wrong. Children allowed to take
responsibility and given a serious part in the larger world are always superior to those merely permitted to play and
be passive. At the age of twelve, Admiral Farragut got his mand. I was in fifth grade when I learned of
this. Had Farragut gone to my school he would have been in seventh.
〈 A Nation From The Bottom Up
〈 You Had To Do It Yourself
〈 No Limit To Pain For Those Who Allow It
〈 The Art Of Driving
〈 Two Approaches To Discipline
〈 The Schools Of Hellas
〈 The Fresco At Herculaneum
〈 The Seven Liberal Arts
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〈 The Platonic Ideal
〈 Oriental Pedagogy
〈 Counter-Attack On Democracy
〈 How Hindu Schooling Came To America (I)
〈 How Hindu Schooling Came To America (II)
〈 How Hindu Schooling Came To America (III)
〈 Braddock's Defeat
〈 Farragut
〈 Ben Franklin
〈 e Washington
〈 Montaigne's Curriculum
Chapter Two
An Angry Look At Modern Schooling
The secret of American schooling is that it doesn't teach the way children learn and it isn't s