It has been an awful long time since I archived my Twitter Book Club tweets. I guess that is a sign that I have been busy. Anyway, so long as Twitter cooperates with me today I plan on backing up my TBC tweets from the past few months. At this point some tweets have been lost as they have dropped off of my Twitter stream but I will do my best to recapture everything. I may go back later to add my reflection. For the sake of time I will not be breaking these out into chapters like I normally do.
---------Gatto-------Ch 1 Everything You Know About Schooling is Wrong---------------------------------------------------------
— anderscj (@anderscj) October 15, 2011
"In simple language, on the most basic level of institutional management, smart kids had to be kept from stupid one... tl.gd/dkovr9
— anderscj (@anderscj) October 15, 2011
"Simple fascism would have stopped at action, but as Orwell warned in 1984, something deeper than fascism was happening." Gatto
— anderscj (@anderscj) October 15, 2011
"[Benjamin] Bloom spawned a horde of descendant forms: mastery learning; outcomes-based education; school-to-work; ... tl.gd/dkp5ru
— anderscj (@anderscj) October 15, 2011
"consumption had to be taught as the most important end of life." Gatto
— anderscj (@anderscj) October 15, 2011
"The new forced schooling octopus taught anyone unable to escape its tentacles that inert knowledge—memorizing the ... tl.gd/dkprk4
— anderscj (@anderscj) October 15, 2011
"It was from Washington's bribes, subsidies, and cajolings that institutional schooling spread, not from the merit of the idea." Gatto
— anderscj (@anderscj) October 15, 2011
"In any important matters, state departments of education were little better than stooges, the Federal Department of Education—ditto." Gatto
— anderscj (@anderscj) October 15, 2011
"Any political management, even tyranny, must provide enough work for ordinary people that revolutionary conditions don't emerge." Gatto
— anderscj (@anderscj) October 15, 2011
"seeing the connection between long-term legal confinement of children and the nation's business gives us an essent... tl.gd/dkqaud
— anderscj (@anderscj) October 15, 2011
-----------Gatto---------Ch 2 Walkabout: London----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
— anderscj (@anderscj) October 16, 2011
"[In open source learning] The student determines who is or is not a teacher, not the government." Gatto
— anderscj (@anderscj) October 16, 2011
"[In open source learning] The student determines who is or is not a teacher, not the government." Gatto
— anderscj (@anderscj) October 16, 2011
"you and I need to re-examine everything we've been conditioned to accept as truth. Everything. That's called diale... tl.gd/dlbnlh
— anderscj (@anderscj) October 16, 2011
"Degrees should never stand as proxies for education." Gatto
— anderscj (@anderscj) October 16, 2011
"You're on the road to being educated when you know yourself so thoroughly you write your own script instead of tak... tl.gd/dlbspr
— anderscj (@anderscj) October 16, 2011
"wage-slaves, free in name only, are much cheaper to exploit, and work harder than slaves." Gatto
— anderscj (@anderscj) October 16, 2011
"With few exceptions, invention is the province of youthful insight; cut that spring of ideas off by embedding the ... tl.gd/dlce18
— anderscj (@anderscj) October 16, 2011
"imaginative individuals are notoriously unmanageable and unmanageable and unpredictable, because they are irrepressibly inventive." Gatto
— anderscj (@anderscj) October 16, 2011
"What Buffet learned open source, by active risk-taking, imagination, and real work, schools either cannot or will not teach." Gatto
— anderscj (@anderscj) October 16, 2011
"Consider what society would look like if 65 million trapped schoolchildren learning to be consumers were suddenly ... tl.gd/dlcorv
— anderscj (@anderscj) October 16, 2011
"Education (not schooling) teaches what really matters, thar adding value to others is the only way to add value to yourself." Gatto
— anderscj (@anderscj) October 16, 2011
"If you aren't useful you must be useless—and nobody wants that." Gatto
— anderscj (@anderscj) October 16, 2011
------------Gatto---------Ch3 Fat Stanley and the Lancaster Amish----------------------------------------------------------------
— anderscj (@anderscj) October 19, 2011
"It's quite rare for an inventive person in any field to trace success to school training." Gatto
— anderscj (@anderscj) October 19, 2011
"School is about learning to wait your turn, however long it takes to come, if ever." Gatto
— anderscj (@anderscj) October 19, 2011
"That's the job the incessant bells perform in our schools: they teach a Monty Pythonesque relief at escape from re... tl.gd/dn163k
— anderscj (@anderscj) October 19, 2011
"H. H. Goddard, chairman of psychology at Princeton...believed that standardized test scores used as a signal for p... tl.gd/dn181a
— anderscj (@anderscj) October 19, 2011
"Sick of Amish rejection of it's schools, Wisconsin sought to compel Amish compliance with its secular schooling la... tl.gd/dn1g43
— anderscj (@anderscj) October 19, 2011
"no two people are alike, all 'averages' are lies, and nobody can be accurately contained by numbers and graphs." Gatto
— anderscj (@anderscj) October 19, 2011
--------------Gatto--------------Ch 4 David Sarnoff's Classroom---------------------------------------------------------------------
— anderscj (@anderscj) October 19, 2011
"You can't self-teach without inner strength and a measure of gravity, without opportunities to be alone, to have b... tl.gd/dn1pnb
— anderscj (@anderscj) October 19, 2011
"The most suffocating of constraints are generated from traditional Calvinistic roots: Mistrust of children, mistru... tl.gd/dn1s6n
— anderscj (@anderscj) October 19, 2011
"Why would kids taught to think critically and express themselves effectively put up with the nonsense you force down their throats?" Gatto
— anderscj (@anderscj) October 19, 2011
" I cant escape the conclusion that we both are involved in a social engineering project whose mission is to weaken... tl.gd/dn1v7a
— anderscj (@anderscj) October 19, 2011
"As I've grown older I've come to believe that good teachers are more dangerous than bad one's. They keep this sick... tl.gd/dn22un
— anderscj (@anderscj) October 19, 2011
"As I've grown older I've come to believe that good teachers are more dangerous than bad one's. They keep this sick... tl.gd/dn22un
— anderscj (@anderscj) October 19, 2011
@Darcy1968 John Taylor Gatto (2009) Weapons of Mass Instruction
— anderscj (@anderscj) October 19, 2011
@Darcy1968 John Taylor Gatto (2009) Weapons of Mass Instruction
— anderscj (@anderscj) October 19, 2011
@woscholar for me it was the Boy Scouts
— anderscj (@anderscj) October 19, 2011
------------Gatto---------Ch 5 Hector Isn't the Problem---------------------------------------------------------------------------
— anderscj (@anderscj) October 19, 2011
"I can't believe that centralized schooling is allowed to exist at all as a gigantic indoctrination and sorting mac... tl.gd/dn26ri
— anderscj (@anderscj) October 19, 2011
"Old-fashioned dumbness used to be simple ignorance. Now it's been transformed into permanent mathematical categori... tl.gd/dn28mt
— anderscj (@anderscj) October 19, 2011
"Alan Bullock, the English historian, said eves is a state of incompetence. If he's right, then our school adventur... tl.gd/dn29fr
— anderscj (@anderscj) October 19, 2011
-------------Gatto------------Ch 6 The Camino de Santiago-------------------------------------------------------------------------
— anderscj (@anderscj) October 19, 2011
"The principal reason bureaucracies are so stupid is that they cannot respond efficiently to feedback." Gatto
— anderscj (@anderscj) October 19, 2011
"Take your boot off the downtrodden necks of your children, study their needs not your own, don't be intimidated by... tl.gd/dn2kfs
— anderscj (@anderscj) October 19, 2011
---------Gatto----------Ch 7 Weapons of Mass Instruction------------------------------------------------------------------------
— anderscj (@anderscj) October 21, 2011
"The best data came from parents, grandparents, brothers, sisters, friends, and enemies" Gatto
— anderscj (@anderscj) October 21, 2011
"By destroying possibilities of internal dialectic, and by concealing the operations of management from public scru... tl.gd/do59pr
— anderscj (@anderscj) October 21, 2011
"In a nation whose economy depends on bubble illusions, why should the school institution assigned to train the you... tl.gd/do5bla
— anderscj (@anderscj) October 21, 2011
"Between children identified as bright by schools and those identified as stupid, hardly a difference exists but th... tl.gd/do5dtl
— anderscj (@anderscj) October 21, 2011
"People become dangerous when too many see through the illusions which hold society together." Gatto
— anderscj (@anderscj) October 21, 2011
"School is built around the self-interest of others." Gatto
— anderscj (@anderscj) October 21, 2011
"Kids don't understand why it's happening, but they sense themselves being put to death in school. That's why they hate it so much." Gatto
— anderscj (@anderscj) October 22, 2011
"In a complex society, flexible people survive best, but school—think of the word itself—rewards rigid, miserable rule-followers." Gatto
— anderscj (@anderscj) October 22, 2011
"Learning isn't the point of school, winning is; attention is never placed on quality of thought or performance, bu... tl.gd/doo608
— anderscj (@anderscj) October 22, 2011
"Papert offered two possible destinies for institutional schooling—transformation 'into something new' or 'wither a... tl.gd/doo7ek
— anderscj (@anderscj) October 22, 2011
Note to self, find a copy of Carroll Quigley's Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time
— anderscj (@anderscj) October 22, 2011
"Educated people, or people with principles, represent rogue elements in a scheme of scientific management; the for... tl.gd/dood5j
— anderscj (@anderscj) October 22, 2011
"The educated mind is a connected mind, connected to all manner of human styles (not the sterile equivalencies of a... tl.gd/dooknf
— anderscj (@anderscj) October 22, 2011
"Without self-knowledge you can hardly think of yourself as human at all. And yet we have the first National Commis... tl.gd/doolln
— anderscj (@anderscj) October 22, 2011
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— anderscj (@anderscj) October 22, 2011
"Most of us let our own fears or the impositions of others imprison us in a world of low expectations." Gatto
— anderscj (@anderscj) October 23, 2011
"Consumers rather than contributors. Of course that's the point...only a small fraction of people need to know how ... tl.gd/dp8rvl
— anderscj (@anderscj) October 23, 2011
"no condition stimulates consumption like boredom, especially when the imagination and the inner life have been par... tl.gd/dp8td2
— anderscj (@anderscj) October 23, 2011
"The destruction of uninterrupted time is a major weapon of mass instruction. Schools are a rat's maze of frantic a... tl.gd/dp8vvo
— anderscj (@anderscj) October 23, 2011
"Personal tine is the only time we have in which to build theories, test hypotheses of our own, and speculate how t... tl.gd/dp90ro
— anderscj (@anderscj) October 23, 2011
---------Gatto-----------ch8 What is Education?------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
— anderscj (@anderscj) October 23, 2011
"My reasons for pessimism stem from knowing that failure is built into our political system because it forces our p... tl.gd/dp98g7
— anderscj (@anderscj) October 23, 2011
"The principal target of school time at present, a target many self-satisfied men and women congratulate themselves... tl.gd/dp9avt
— anderscj (@anderscj) October 23, 2011
"Mass testing institutionalized dishonesty; it belongs to predatory cultures, not dynamic republics." Gatto
— anderscj (@anderscj) October 23, 2011
"We must behave like noble termites, tunneling the current structure until it dissolves of its own dead weight: we ... tl.gd/dp9k02
— anderscj (@anderscj) October 23, 2011
"Grades and test scores are a terrible measure of quality. The sooner we recognize that in planning, the sooner we'... tl.gd/dp9mh3
— anderscj (@anderscj) October 23, 2011
------------Gatto----------Ch 9 A Letter to My Granddaughter About Dartmouth------------------------------------------------------
— anderscj (@anderscj) October 25, 2011
"our once brilliant uniqueness grounded in hard-nosed egalitarianism is dead." Gatto
— anderscj (@anderscj) October 25, 2011
"college won't give you education. Only you can do that." Gatto
— anderscj (@anderscj) October 25, 2011
"The panic you feel growing around you will only stop by political action, not by better schooling." Gatto
— anderscj (@anderscj) October 25, 2011
"the jail you sentence your mind to when you go to school is harder to escape than any iron bars." Gatto
— anderscj (@anderscj) October 25, 2011
"The school you're attending...the college you hope to attend...and indeed all schools in general exist to delay th... tl.gd/dqcuud
— anderscj (@anderscj) October 25, 2011
"the people who built the schools and colleges you admire did not have your interests at heart, but their own." Gatto
— anderscj (@anderscj) October 25, 2011
----------Gatto-------------Ch 10 Incident at Highland High-----------------------------------------------------------------------
— anderscj (@anderscj) October 26, 2011
"My mother said to me often when I was a little boy, 'A word to the wise is sufficient.' Pedagogy is the word. Unde... tl.gd/dqurnu
— anderscj (@anderscj) October 26, 2011
"I need you to question your own schooling and the price you paid for it; I need you to dig behind the illusions of... tl.gd/dqut98
— anderscj (@anderscj) October 26, 2011
"The way you and I are schooled is identical for each of us; the way we get educated has little in common." Gatto
— anderscj (@anderscj) October 26, 2011
"Schooling is organized by command and control from without; education is self-organized from within; school discon... tl.gd/dqv15v
— anderscj (@anderscj) October 26, 2011
"Subject-learning is what schools do because the intention is to create clerks, and specialists, who themselves are... tl.gd/dqv3nu
— anderscj (@anderscj) October 26, 2011
Man, this chapter is full of gems. I'm coming dangerously close to crossing that line of fair use.
— anderscj (@anderscj) October 26, 2011
"Certainty is never achieved in the educated mind; creative destruction—the potent energy of capitalism according t... tl.gd/dqv5v7
— anderscj (@anderscj) October 26, 2011
"Unless the ends of the operation are put on public trial, and its sexual relationships with economics and social m... tl.gd/dqv8kj
— anderscj (@anderscj) October 26, 2011
"Fichte saw that no efficient national management was possible as long as the ordinary population regarded itself a... tl.gd/dqve8m
— anderscj (@anderscj) October 26, 2011
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