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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