Index 209 Doman, Glenn, 33-34 Donne, Elena Delle, 136 "don't;' 127 drive, learning to, 155-156 dropouts, school, 36-37, 52 dumbed down curriculum, II-12 dumbness, 86-87 Durant, Ariel, xv Durant, Will, xv E economy Amish society and, 65 centralized <strong>mass</strong>. production, 42-43 changing <strong>of</strong>, 17 entrepreneurial,17 investment banks, 53-54 pre-Civil War, 40 <strong>of</strong> schools, 78-80 transformation, 17 working wages, 66-67 ecosystem, Australia, III - II2 Edison, Thomas, 37, xv education. see also learning beginnings <strong>of</strong>, 14-16 business values, 25-26 defined,148-153 despite school, 123 measuring, 161-163 redefined,5 schooling compared to, 61, 175-178, xv "educational psychology;' 2 Education and the Social Crisis (Kirkpatrick),2 . Eggleston, Edward, 19 Elison, Larry, 48 England,66 Enton,53 entrepreneurial economy, 17 Equine Mental Health Association, 142 eugenics, 2-4, 10, 117 exercise. see physical education experiments, schooling, 4-5 expression, personal, 162 F Fabian society, 66, 134 Facebook, II3 family life, 41, 68, 130, 147, xvi Fanning, Shawn, 40, 48 farming, Amish, 67-68 Farragut, David, 29, xv, xxii fascism, 4 Fast Company magazine, 28-29 fast food, II2, 196 Fast Food Nation, II2 Fat and Mean (Gordon), 66 fat children, 196 fat Stanley, 62-63 Faulkner, William, 48 feedback, 92-93, 162, 177 feelings, teaching, 4 Fichte,Johann, 46-47, 134, 201 financial capitalism, 16 Financial Times, II8 Finn, Checker, II Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 3 flea principle, 140-141 Fleischer, Ari, xxii food, fast, II2, 196 Ford Foundation, 79 Franklin, Benjamin, 18, xv, xxii Fuller, Buckminster, 51 Future <strong>of</strong> the Internet (Zimain), 54 G Galton, Francis, 1-2, 65, II6-II7, 201 Gates, Bill, 47, 163 Gatto, Janet, 157-158 Gatto family history, 158-159 "Gatto's Guerillas;' 103 Gauguin, Paul, 123 General Electric, 37 Geneticists' Manifesto (Muller), 3 genetics, 2-3 Germany child development theory, 133 Nuremberg incident, 180-182 Phoenix steel plant, 31-32 schooling system, 145-146, 183, 201 school laws and family life, 41 gifted/ talented students, 85, 86 "gilded age;' 50 Giving up the Cathedral, 151-156 Goddard, H.H., 65, 201 Godfrin, Roger, IIO golden age, public schooling, 18-19 Goodwin,Jonathan, 28-29 Gore, AI, 47, 184 government policy, 5-6" IIO-1I2 The Graduate (Webb), 36 granddaughter, letter to, 157-173 Grandpa John's Real Learning Index, 161-163 Great Britain, 2 The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald), 3 Guerilla Curriculum, 93 H habit-training, 172-173 Hall, G. Stanley, 45 Hamilton, Edward, 48 Harris, William Torrey, 12-13, 42, 129 Harvard campus, Cambridge, 71-72 health, 120-122, 196-197
210 WEAPONS OF MASS INSTRUCTION Hegel, 12~13, 45 Hemingway, Ernest, 50 Hernstein, Richard, 10 Highland High School, 183-188 Hider, Adol£ J7, 119 Hobbes, Thomas, 21-22 homeschooling, 56, 180-182, xv The Hoosier Schoolmaster (Eggleston), 19 horse breeding, 141-143 Houghton MifHin, xxi House <strong>of</strong> Mirrors, 106-107 Hsu, Andrew, 141 The Human Genome Project, 34, 181 humiliation, 65 Huxley, Aldous, 123 Hylan, John, 2 Iceland,95 idea loyalry, 22 identification numbers, personai, 6 IKEA,35-36 Iliad (Homer), 131-132 illusions, 105, 160 imposters, people as, 167-170 Indiana Universiry, 109-110 industrial vs. entrepreneurial values,44 inert knowledge, 16-17 Inglis, Alexander, xviii, xxi Institutes (Calvin), 134 Institutes for the Achievement <strong>of</strong> Human Potential,33 institutional schooling, 5-6 insurgency, 55, 56 integrating function, xviii intentions, schooling, 22- 24,65-66,104- 105,179, xvi-xvii Intermediate School 44 Communiry School Distri~t 3, 7, 108 International Happiness Survey, 37, 178 International Herald Tribune, 109 Internet, 92, 113, 153 inventions, American, 25, 39, 46 "invisible government;' 2 "I Quit, I think;' 83-85 Iraq, 81-82 irrelevance, 110, 122-124, 124 J jail as school, 165-167 Jamaica literacy, II James, William, 172-173, xvii Jankiewicz, John, 183 Jefferson, Thomas, 29, 166-167;XV Jesus' contrarianism, 43 Jim Crow laws, 203 Joanie (author's Sister), 58-60 Jobs, Steve, 47 jobs project, school as a, 22 Johns Hopkins Universiry, 45 Jones, Merilee, 35 The Journal <strong>of</strong> Speculative Philosophy, 12 judgment, personal, 163 Juno movie, 30 K Kamprad, Ingvar, 35-36 Kant, Immanuel, 145-146 Kanzius,John, 38-39, 177 Kennedy,John, 184 Kennedy, Ted, 147 Kerry,John, 47, 184 Kidd, Benjamin, 24 Kinko·s.48 Kirkpatrick. William. 2 Kiyosaki. Robert, 51 knowledge. 16-17 Korean War. 9-10. 167-168 Koretz. Daniel, 195 Kristina, letter to, 157-173 L Lancaster Amish, 64-69 Lapham. Lewis, 122 Lasch, Christopher, 18, xvii Latsis,John, 137-138 laws, school, 18 leadership, American, 52. 55-56, 57-58. 147, 163,204 lean production, 164 learning. see also dialectic learning; education free market, 23 freshman year to graduation. 37-38 knowledge, 16-17 open-source, 27-28, 30-31, 42 self-directed. 63-64 teaching sryles and, 63 winning instead o£ 123 learning, open-source. see learning Leeson, Nick, 169-170 Lehman Brothers, 53 letter to assistant principal, 71-82 letter to Bruno, 113-117 letter to Dave. 132-133 letter to granddaughter. 157-173 letter to Kristina, 157-173 The Leviathan (Hobbes), 21-22 libertarianism. 53, 166, 201 Iiberry, 165 Lincoln. Abraham, 200-201. xv Lincoln Academy, 107-109 The Lincoln Elective Program. 108-109 Lippmann, Walter, 124-125. 130. 167
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