Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory SchoolingJohn Taylor Gattos Weapons of Mass Instruction, focuses on mechanisms of traditional education that cripple imagination, discourage critical thinking, and create a false view of learning as a byproduct of rote memorization drills. Gattos earlier book, Dumbing Us Down, introduced the now famous expression of the title into the common vernacular. Weapons of Mass Instruction adds another chilling metaphor to the brief against conventional schooling.

early empires shaped thousands of years of world history

The "figurings” of speech reveal the apparently limitless plasticity of language itself

Muhammad's challenge

Go Tell It on the Mountain was Baldwin’s first major work

Moderation in Belief informs many subsequent theological debates

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as well as of the multiple incongruities that hamper any attempt to establish one in terms of the other

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without diminishing the individuality of each

This classic and popular introduction to the sciences developed to interpret and understand Islam's holy book is ideal for all serious students of the Koran

Author: Leo Strauss and Joseph Cropsey

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