Education/Schooling Link-bomb

Work-in-progress

• Resources listed by the former Deep Green Bush School in New Zealand – link
• Alliance for the Separation of School & State 
• Self-directed.org

John Taylor Gatto (RIP):

• John Taylor Gatto – NYC teacher for 30yrs who turned against compulsory schooling
• JohnTaylorGatto.com
• The Makers of Modern Schooling  (brief timeline)
• The Underground History of American Education  | online book | various versions at Archive.org
• +Notes/highlights of the book ,The Underground History of American Education
• Dumbing Us Down  by John Taylor Gatto (a short book)
• **Video: The Ultimate History Lesson: A Weekend with John Taylor Gatto (YouTube) FIVE HOURS
  Transcript of the five hours with sources cited
• Video: Open Source Learning 
• NEW: Video of a talk hosted by Separation of School & State
• John Taylor Gatto YouTube channel 

John Taylor Gatto Audio:

• Beyond Schooling (youtube)
• Weapons of Mass Instruction  (YouTube)
• Beyond Columbine
• The Paradox of Extended Childhood
• The Scientific Management of Children

+ Excerpt from the audio: “Andrew Carnegie & John D. Rockefeller together spent more money on  schooling than the government between 1900-1920..” (John Taylor Gatto extracting from documents from the Carnegie & Rockefeller  Foundations – audio link 38:22 mark of The Scientific Management of Children)

• The Guerilla Curriculum
• Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Institutionalized Schooling
• 14 Principles of an Elite Boarding School Curriculum (youtube)
• A Short Angry History Of Modern Schooling (youtube)
• The Pathological Methodology of Forced Schooling (youtube)
• Documentary trailer  for The Fourth Purpose which has been years in the making and is not yet finished! They have ignored my emails suggesting that they use Kickstarter.com and IndieGoGo.com.

Related to the history of the purpose of schooling

• Charles Glenn, The Myth of the Common School
• Ray Callahan, Education and the Cult of Efficiency
• Daniel Kevles, In the Name of Eugenics

Misc.

• (Book) Punished By Rewards by Alfie Kohn – torrents 
• Book:The Education of Millionaires: Everything You Won’t Learn in College About How to Be Successful, by Michael Ellsberg – torrents
• The Myth of Working Your Way Through College  (2014, The Atlantic)
• Thinking too highly of higher education  (2014, WashPost)
• Bill Strickland’s story  (struggling Pittsburgh student who became and MacArthur grant; global  adoption of his methods of helping struggling/underprivileged youth)
  • His TED talk, Rebuilding a Neighborhood with Beauty, Dignity and Hope .
  • Another talk Environments Change Behavior
• Apprenticeships, not internships (apprentice.at)
• Edutopia  (George Lucas-funded)
• Summerhill school  (“free school”)
• Sudbury Valley school model 
• Education Options Now (Chrysalis School in Seattle Washington)
• “Failure Factories” of Florida 
• The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America  by Charlotte Iserbyt (PDF, 734 pages, now free)
• Howard Zinn Project  (Author of A People’s History of the United States)
• 13 yr-old talks about the 8 TLC’s, happiness, health, & hacking as part of education
• TED talk: Do schools kill creativity? 
• Killing creativity : (They mistakenly use the word “education” instead of “schooling”)
• Video: Noam Chomsky on Education & Creativity  (2013)
• ScienceDaily.com Education and Learning section
• A very useful 75 page PDF listing brief highlights of key books related to Education, Intelligence and Research 
• Floating schools in Bangladesh that also provide solar power for using  computers  and power for villages as well as science lectures. Plug that  into a  cellular network and internet access is possible. Video 1   |  non-profit site w/video   |  Video 2 
• Hole in the Wall school by Dr. Sugata Mitra – Frontline video and the youtube link | TED video – The child-driven education
• Outernet for remote internet access – portable, solar-powered, multi-frequency (Gizmodo link)
• Junk food and dairy food connection to US Government & corporations in the schooling system – LINK 
• +Links on education, technology, and more  for an Oberlin, Ohio Civics Collaboration (2011-2012)
• Article: The former governor who became the head of Purdue University wanted to stop people from teaching from Howard Zinn’s book A People’s History of the United States.
• The Kansas Senate approved a bill that could send public schoolteachers to jail if they teach “harmful material.” (link )
• American Center for Disease Control claims  life in the inner city can create a health problem which then makes it tougher for young people there to learn – article
• The 2011 Freshman Survey from UCLA’s Higher Education Research Institute found that the top reason for attending college was “to be able to get a better job” (86 percent of respondents, up from 70 percent just five years earlier). (source, the comments after the source/article are worth skimming)
• Genes blamed, not the schooling system? 
• Alan Watts – Life is a Hoax (33min audio fr youtube) A variety of his talks are available at the piratebay
• The Education Forum – Former professors, current teachers, and authors hang out here (example , Q&A with one of the authors of Gold Warriors, Sterling Seagraves)
• Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin  text | audio/LibriVox
• Young Thomas Edison (1940 movie)

Online Learning

• Book: The Teenage Liberation Handbook–How to quit school and get a real life and education, by Grace Llewellyn – torrents 
• Check out +this books download list (text & audio)
• 40 “educational” websites
• OpenCulture.com 
• 9 “Best” Online “Open Courseware” web resources

Courses, lectures

• Audio: The Great Courses by The Teaching Company (280 courses) – piratebay 
• Audio: Propaganda and Control of the Public Mind, by Noam Chomsky – torrent