The Mis Education Of The Masses

In this eye-opening book, Wayne Malcolm explains how mis- education has misguided a whole generation into a state of economic dependency and helplessness. He explains why most people are ill equipped to survive the global economic transition but also offers hope for people who are ready to explore the exciting world of alternatives. You'll find out: - Why and how the promise of education has been broken - How and why the schools created a job-dependent society - Why schools continue to promote job-dependency in an age of job-insecurity - Who are going to be the big winners and the big losers in the global economic transition? - Why the credit crunch isn't biting everyone. - How easy it is to own a profit making business - How easy it is to make your own money - What to do if you lose your job - How to re-educate yourself for independence

In this book, Chomsky builds a larger understanding of our educational needs, starting with the changing role of schools today, yet broadening our view toward new models of public education for citizenship.

Get the Summary of Carter Goodwin Woodson's The MisEducation of the Negro in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Carter G. Woodson's "The MisEducation of the Negro" critiques the American education system for its failure to serve African American students. It argues that the system instills a sense of inferiority by venerating other cultures while dismissing African heritage. African American students are mis-educated to aspire to whiteness, preparing them only to be subservient...

Unabridged version of The Mis-Education of the Negro, by Carter Godwin Woodson, offered here for chump change. An underappreciated classic, anyone studying influence, the psychology of persuasion, or social controls would do well to study this book. Woodson states it straight and deserves greater study by all in power, "When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions. You do not have to tell him not to stand here or go yonder. He will find his 'proper place' and will stay in it." For those that read The Art of War, The Prince, Meditations, or How to Win Friends and Influence People, this book, The Mis-Education of the Negro, should be added to their book shelf of classics Contents Foreword 3 Preface 3 Chapter I: The Seat of the Trouble 5 Chapter II: How We Missed the Mark 7 Chapter III: How We Drifted Away from the Truth 10 Chapter IV: Education Under Outside Control 13 Chapter V: The Failure to Learn to Make a Living 16 Chapter VI: The Educated Negro Leaves the Masses 21 Chapter VII: Dissension and Weakness 24 Chapter VIII: Professional Education Discouraged 28 Chapter IX: Political Education Neglected 31 Chapter X: The Loss of Vision 35 Chapter XI: The Need for Service Rather than Leadership 40 Chapter XII: Hirelings in the Places of Public Servants 43 Chapter XIII: Understand the Negro 47 Chapter XIV: The New Program 51 Chapter XV: Vocational Guidance 55 Chapter XVI: The New Type of Professional Man Required 60 Chapter XVII: Higher Strivings in the Service of the Country 63 Chapter XVIII: The Study of the Negro 66 Appendix 68

The transformation of schooling from a twelve-year jail sentence to freedom to learn. John Taylor Gatto's Weapons of Mass Instruction , now available in paperback, focuses on mechanisms of traditional education which cripple imagination, discourage critical thinking, and create a false view of learning as a byproduct of rote-memorization drills. Gatto's 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. Gatto demonstrates that the harm school inflicts is rational and deliberate. The real function of pedagogy, he argues, is to render the common population manageable. To that end, young people must be conditioned to rely upon experts, to remain divided from natural alliances and to accept disconnections from their own lived experiences. They must at all costs be discouraged from developing self-reliance and independence. Escaping this trap requires a strategy Gatto calls "open source learning" which imposes no artificial divisions between learning and life. Through this alternative approach our children can avoid being indoctrinated-only then can they achieve self-knowledge, good judgment, and courage.

The most influential work by “the father of Black history”, reflecting the long-standing tradition of antiracist teaching pioneered by Black educators A Penguin Classic The Mis-education of the Negro (1933) is Woodson’s most popular classic work of Black social criticism, drawing on history, theory, and memoir. As both student and teacher, Woodson witnessed distortions of Black life in the history and literature taught in schools and universities. He identified a relationship between these distortions in curriculum and the violence circumscribing Black life in the material world, declaring, “There would be no lynching if it did not start in the schoolroom.” Woodson’s primary focus was the impact dominant modes of schooling had on Black youth. This systematic process of mis-education undermined Black people’s struggles for freedom and justice, and it was an experience that scholars before and after Woodson recognized and worked to challenge. Woodson argued that students, teachers, and leaders needed to be educated in a manner that was accountable to Black experiences and lived realities, both past and present. This edition includes an appendix of selected letters and articles by Woodson, and Suggestions for Further Reading.