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The Open History of American Education
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Prologue
1.
Bianca, You Animal, Shut Up!
2.
I Quit, I Think
3.
The New Individualism
4.
School As Religion
5.
He Was Square Inside And Brown
6.
The New Dumbness
7.
Putting Pedagogy To The Question
8.
Author’s Note
Part 1:
Of Schooling, Education, and Myself
Chapter One:
The Way It Used To Be
9.
A Nation From The Bottom Up
10.
You Had To Do It Yourself
11.
No Limit To Pain For Those Who Allow It
12.
The Art Of Driving
13.
Two Approaches To Discipline
14.
The Schools Of Hellas
15.
The Fresco At Herculaneum
16.
The Seven Liberal Arts
17.
The Platonic Ideal
18.
Oriental Pedagogy
19.
Counter-Attack On Democracy
20.
How Hindu Schooling Came To America (I)
21.
How Hindu Schooling Came To America (II)
22.
How Hindu Schooling Came To America (III)
23.
Braddock’s Defeat
24.
Farragut
25.
Ben Franklin
26.
George Washington
27.
Montaigne’s Curriculum
Chapter Two:
An Angry Look at Modern Schooling
28.
A Change In The Governing Mind
29.
Extending Childhood
30.
The Geneticist’s Manifesto
31.
Participatory Democracy Put To The Sword
32.
Bad Character As A Management Tool
33.
An Enclosure Movement For Children
34.
The Dang'an
35.
Occasional Letter Number One
36.
Change Agents Infiltrate
37.
Bionomics
38.
Waking Up Angry
Chapter Three:
Eyeless in Gaza
39.
The School Edition
40.
Intellectual Espionage
41.
Looking Behind Appearances
42.
The Sudbury Valley School
43.
Bootie Zimmer
44.
False Premises
45.
A System Of State Propaganda
46.
The Ideology Of The Text
47.
The National Adult Literacy Survey
48.
Name Sounds, Not Things
49.
The Meatgrinder Classroom
50.
The Ignorant Schoolmaster
51.
Frank Had A Dog; His Name Was Spot
52.
The Pedagogy Of Literacy
53.
Dick And Jane
Chapter Four:
I Quit, I Think
54.
Wadleigh, The Death School
55.
Dr. Caleb Gattegno, Expert
56.
Intimidation
57.
Hector Of The Feeble-Mind
58.
Hector Isn't The Problem
59.
One Lawyer Equals 3,000 Reams Of Paper
60.
The Great Transformation
61.
Education As A Helix Sport
62.
I'm Outta Here!
Part 2:
The Foundations of Schooling
Chapter Five:
True Believers And The Unspeakable Chautauqua
63.
Munsterberg And His Disciples
64.
The Prototype Is A Schoolteacher
65.
Teachers College Maintains The Planet
66.
A Lofty, Somewhat Inhuman Vision
67.
Rain Forest Algebra
68.
Godless, But Not Irreligious
69.
An Insider’s Insider
70.
Compulsion Schooling
71.
De-Moralizing School Procedure
72.
William Torrey Harris
73.
Cardinal Principles
74.
The Unspeakable Chautauqua
Chapter Six:
The Lure of Utopia
75.
So Fervently Do We Believe
76.
The Necessity Of Detachment
77.
Enlarging The Nervous System
78.
Producing Artificial Wants
79.
The Parens Patriae Powers
80.
The Plan Advances
81.
Children’s Court
82.
Mr. Young’s Head Was Pounded To Jelly
83.
William Rainey Harper
84.
Death Dies
85.
Three Most Significant Books
86.
No Place To Hide
87.
The Irony Of The Safety Lamp
Chapter Seven:
The Prussian Connection
88.
The Land of Frankenstein
89.
The Long Reach Of The Teutonic Knights
90.
The Prussian Reform Movement
91.
Travelers' Reports
92.
Finding Work For Intellectuals
93.
The Technology Of Subjection
94.
The German/American Reichsbank
Chapter Eight:
A Coal-Fired Dream World
95.
Coal At The Bottom Of Things
96.
The Demon Of Overproduction
97.
The Quest For Arcadia
98.
Managerial Utopia
99.
The Positive Method
100.
Plato’s Guardians
101.
Far-Sighted Businessmen
102.
Coal Gives The Coup De Grâce
103.
The Spectre Of Uncontrolled Breeding
104.
Global Associations Of Technique
105.
Labor Becomes Expendable
106.
Burying Children Alive
107.
The End Of Competition
108.
America Is Massified
109.
German Mind Science
Chapter Nine:
The Cult Of Scientific Management
110.
Frederick W. Taylor
111.
The Adoption Of Business Organization By Schools
112.
The Ford System And The Kronstadt Commune
113.
The National Press Attack On Academic Schooling
114.
The Fabian Spirit
115.
The Open Conspiracy
116.
An Everlasting Faith
117.
Regulating Lives Like Machinery
118.
The Gary Plan
119.
The Jewish Student Riots
120.
The Rockefeller Report
121.
Obstacles On The Road To Centralization
Part 3:
A Personal Interlude
Chapter Ten:
My Green River
122.
The Character Of A Village
123.
Singing And Fishing Were Free
124.
The Greatest Fun Was Watching People Work
125.
Sitting In The Dark
126.
I Hung Around A Lot In Monongahela
127.
Shooting Birds
128.
On Punishment
129.
Separations
130.
Principles
131.
Frances "Bootie" Zimmer
132.
Walking Around Monongahela
133.
The College Of Zimmer And Hegel
Part 4:
Metamorphosis
Chapter Eleven:
The Crunch
134.
The Struggle For Homogeneity
135.
Eugenics Arrives
136.
Mr. Hitler Reads Mr. Ford
137.
Racial Suicide
138.
The Passing Of The Great Race
139.
The Poison Of Democracy
140.
The American Protective League
141.
Guaranteed Customers
142.
Industrial Efficiency
143.
High-Pressure Salesmanship
144.
A New Collectivism
Chapter Twelve:
Daughters of the Barons Of Runnemede
145.
A Scientifically Humane Future
146.
Exclusive Heredity
147.
Divinely Appointed Intelligence
148.
The Paxton Boys
149.
Soldiers For Their Class
150.
Organizing Caste
151.
Your Family Tree
152.
The Fatal Sound Shift
153.
Our Manifest Destiny
154.
The Lost Tribes
155.
Unpopular Government
156.
Kinship Is Mythical
157.
The Machine Gun Builds Hotchkiss
158.
Fountains Of Business Wealth
159.
The General Education Board And Friends
Chapter Thirteen:
The Empty Child
160.
Miss Skinner Sleeps Scientifically
161.
Behaviorists
162.
Plasticity
163.
Elasticity
164.
Emptiness: The Master Theory
165.
A Metaphysical Commitment
166.
The Limits Of Behavioral Theory
167.
Reality Engages The Banana
168.
Programming The Empty Child
169.
Dr. Watson Presumes
170.
Cleaning The Canvas
171.
Therapy As Curriculum
172.
The New Thought Tide
173.
To Abolish Thinking
174.
Wundt!
175.
Napoleon Of Mind Science
176.
What Is Sanity?
177.
Bending The Student To Reality
178.
Paying Children To Learn
Chapter Fourteen:
Absolute Absolution
179.
The Problem Of God
180.
Spirits Are Dangerous
181.
Foundations Of The Western Outlook
182.
Codes Of Meaning
183.
The Scientific Curriculum
184.
Everson v. Board Of Education (1947)
185.
Judaism
186.
The Dalai Lama And The Genius Of The West
187.
Religion And Rationality
188.
The Illusion Of Punishment
Chapter Fifteen:
The Psychopathology Of Everyday
189.
An Arena Of Dishonesty
190.
The Game Is Crooked
191.
Psychopathic Programming
192.
What Really Goes On
193.
Pathology As A Natural Byproduct
194.
A Critical Appraisal
195.
Vox Populi
196.
The Systems Idea In Action
Part 5:
The Problem of Modern Schooling
Chapter Sixteen:
A Conspiracy Against Ourselves
197.
Two Social Revolutions Become One
198.
The Fear Of Common Intelligence
199.
The Cult Of Forced Schooling
200.
Disinherited Men And Women
201.
Serving The Imperial Virus
202.
Quill-Driving
203.
The Release From Tutelage
Chapter Seventeen:
The Politics Of Schooling
204.
Three Holes In My Floor
205.
Power ÷ 22
206.
Valhalla
207.
I’m A Flunky, So’s My Kid
208.
It’s Not Your Money
209.
A Billion, Six For KC
210.
Education’s Most Powerful Voice
211.
Letter To The Editor
212.
A Quality Education
213.
Who Controls American Education?
214.
The Logical Tragedy Of Benson, Vermont
215.
Natural Selection
216.
The Great Transformation
217.
Propaganda
218.
Freud’s Nephew
219.
Magic At Work
220.
The Culture Of Big Business
221.
Four Kinds Of Classroom
222.
The Planetary Management Corporation
Chapter Eighteen:
Breaking Out Of The Trap
223.
Silicon Valley
224.
Deregulating Opportunity
225.
Selling From Your Truck
226.
Mudsill Theory
227.
Autonomous Technology
228.
The Bell Curve
229.
George Meegan
230.
Necking In The Guardhouse
231.
Tania Aebi
232.
A Fool’s Bargain
233.
Roland Legiardi-Laura
234.
The Squeeze
235.
Wendy Zeigler /Amy Halpern
236.
A Magnificent Memory
237.
Prince Charles Visits Steel Valley High
238.
Empty Children
239.
Schoolbooks
240.
Almost The End
241.
I Would Prefer Not To
242.
Nuts And Bolts
Epilogue
Prologue