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208 WEAPONS OF MASS INSTRUCTION<br />

Carnegie Foundation, 3, 201<br />

cartoons, 133<br />

caste systems, 77<br />

categorizing students, 84-85, 88, 129, xviii<br />

centralized <strong>mass</strong> production economies,<br />

42-43<br />

chemical experimentation, 6<br />

Cheney, Dick, 47<br />

child development, 133<br />

childhood, artificial extension <strong>of</strong>, 39-47,<br />

133-134,137, xxi<br />

childishness, xiv<br />

The Child, the Parent and the State (Conant),<br />

xvii-xviii<br />

China<br />

jails, 55-56, 165-167<br />

Phoenix steel plant, 31-32, 182<br />

Choo-Choo Syndrome, Talking, 131-136<br />

Christianity, II6<br />

Chrystal Springs Upland School, 183<br />

Circular <strong>of</strong> Information, 15<br />

Civil War<br />

economic transformation, 17<br />

industrial vs. entrepreneurial values,<br />

44<br />

self-education, 201<br />

slavety, 40-41<br />

classification <strong>of</strong> students, 4-5, xviii<br />

classroom behavior, 79<br />

Clay, Philip, 35<br />

Cody, Diablo, 30<br />

Collapse (Diamond), III<br />

collectivization, 129<br />

college<br />

admission, 120-122, 184-185<br />

degrees, 47-48<br />

transformation <strong>of</strong>, 164-165<br />

Collins, Frances, 34<br />

Columbia Teachers College, 2, 200-201<br />

Columbine High School, xvii-xviii<br />

Commissioner's report, 76-78<br />

"common school;' 3<br />

community service programs, 75<br />

The Complete System <strong>of</strong> Medical Policing, 5<br />

compulsion era, school, 19-22<br />

computers, 82, 91-92, 97, 154-155<br />

Conant, James Bryant, 12, 148, 201, xviixviii<br />

congressional investigation, 3-4<br />

connectedness, 130<br />

consumerism, 143, xxi-xxii<br />

consumption<br />

contributors and, 143<br />

<strong>of</strong> knowledge, 25-26<br />

<strong>mass</strong>,xx<br />

personal, 44<br />

production demands and, 16<br />

school training habits for, 44<br />

The Container Store, 51<br />

contempt, 109-1I0<br />

contingent labor, 163-164<br />

contrarianism, 43<br />

Copy This (Orfalea), 48<br />

corporation, school as a, 53<br />

court systems, 7<br />

Creating a Class: College Admissions and the<br />

Education <strong>of</strong> Elites (Stevens), 196<br />

creativity/inventiveness, 25, 39, 46<br />

crime rates, 97. see also violence<br />

criticism, 61-62<br />

Cubberley, Ellwood P., 19, xxi<br />

curriculum. see also teaching<br />

dumbed down, II-12<br />

Guerrilla Curriculum, 93<br />

irrelevance, 122-124<br />

private, 131-136<br />

talking choo-choo, 133<br />

customer service, 52<br />

D<br />

darkness <strong>of</strong> compulsory schooling, 124-<br />

126,178-180<br />

Dartmouth College, 159-161, 171<br />

Darwin, Charles, 1-2, 65, II4-II7, 201<br />

Dave, letter to, 132-133<br />

death, study <strong>of</strong>, 151<br />

Decent <strong>of</strong> Man (Darwin), II7<br />

Dell, Michael, 47-48<br />

Demara, Ferdinand, 167-168<br />

democracy<br />

BSTEp,6<br />

crisis <strong>of</strong>, 14-15<br />

to de facto oligarchy, 41<br />

school boards, 19-20<br />

Department <strong>of</strong> Superintendence <strong>of</strong> the National<br />

Education Associatitm, 65-66<br />

deprivation, information/knowledge,<br />

105-108<br />

de-pr<strong>of</strong>essionalization <strong>of</strong>learning, 153-154<br />

Designing Education for the Future, 4, 5<br />

Dewey,John, 45, 172<br />

Dewey Beach, Delaware, 140<br />

diabetes, 121, 196<br />

diagnostic function, xix<br />

dialectic learning, 32, 43, 63-64, 74, 104. see<br />

also learning; open-source learning/<br />

education<br />

Diamond,Jared, III<br />

differentiating function, xix<br />

directive function, xix<br />

discipline, 6-7, 79<br />

disconnectedness, 130<br />

Disraeli, Benjamin, 2<br />

District <strong>of</strong> Columbia, 18-19

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