This might be an Internet first – fisking a recipe. Or it might not. I’m too lazy to Google around and see what turns up.
On the great homeschooler campout of 2005 – we stumbled into this recipe for S’Mores on the inside of a package of Hershey Bars. I…
I’m under a wife-imposed NDA so I can’t disclose any details from the weekend. Feel free to peruse the photos and come to your own conclusions 🙂
Yes, we had a good time. It stopped raining about 30 minutes before I got to the campground, which was n…
Wow. Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow. That is really all I can say after reading this chapter. In chapter 14 Gatto connects the history of Western spirituality and forced schooling in a way that I would not have believed possible 30 minutes ago.
I can’t possib…
In chapter 13, Gatto explores the influence on BF Skinner and Behavioralism in the school system. To refresh your memory, behavioralism is the theory that we are all born as blank slates, and what we become is merely the sum total of our experiences. T…
I found this chapter fascinating on several levels. I’m really just now starting to comprehend the corporate influences that led to forced schooling. It really wasn’t a nefarious government plot. It was a nefarious, racist, elitist plot funded by corpo…
In chapter 11, Gatto examines the role of racism is the early days of forced schooling.
In the thirty years between 1890 and 1920, the original idea of America as a cosmopolitan association of peoples, each with its own integrity, gave way to urgent ca…
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Chapter 10 is all about Gatto’s childhood and how it impacted his teaching methodology and ultimately his repudiation of the teaching profession. I found it a nice little story, but it didn’t really connect with me, probably because I grew up a militar…
I’ve been thinking about this a bit, spurred on by the annual rush of feel good graduation stories in the local paper.
What exactly is high school graduation for a homeschooler? The dictionary definition is either completion of a course of study, or th…
I’m not sure if I’ve really got my brain wrapped around this chapter yet. I may have to read again to really get it. Gatto squarely lays the blame for public education, and the state of our current society in general, at the feet of two people most of …
