ISBN: 9780865716698

Description: xxiii, 214 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:

• Includes index.
• The author accuses compulsory education methods of stifling imaginations and critical thinking skills, and discusses individuals such as Thomas Edison, John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, who are considered to have exceptional minds, even though they but did not follow traditional education paths.

Contents:

• Everything you know about school is wrong
• Walkabout: London
• Fat Stanley and the Lancaster Amish
• David Sarnoff's classroom
• Hector isn't the problem
• The camino de santigo
• Weapons of mass istruction
• What is education?
• A letter to my granddaughter about Darmouth
• Incident at Highland High.

Subjects:

• Education -- Aims and objectives -- United States.
• Education -- Philosophy.
• Education, Compulsory -- United States.
• Educational sociology -- United States.