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Instead of Education: Ways to Help People do Things Better
John Holt
Sentient Publications
, 2004
A seminal contribution to education policy discussions
Instead Of Education: Ways To Help People Do Things Better by alternative education advocate John Holt (author of the 1964 book How Children Fail) is an iconoclastic and seminal work presenting a persuasively argued case for "un-schooling" from traditional classroom ...
The Comfort Women: Japan's Brutal Regime of Enforced Prostitution in the Second World War
George L. Hicks
W. W. Norton & Company
, 1997
Japanese War Criminals' Crime Against Humanity
This is an excellent book. It tells true, but forgotten, stories experienced by many asians. You should also read "The Rape of Nanking" by Iris Chang. That book also explains why the Japanese got away with their crimes. Here I am going to tell you two stories I ...
Education: Free & Compulsory
Murray N. Rothbard
Ludwig von Mises Institute
, 1999
The Ills of Public Education...
~Education: Free & Compulsory~ is terse treatise chronicling the ills of compulsory publik educashun, which I can relate to, having been edumocated in publik schoolz myself. Rothbard surmises a history of this insidious institution which has become accepted as if there ...
Invasion of Compulsory Sex-Morality, The
Wilhelm Reich
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
, 1970
A call to arms... and legs... and....
In this volume, Wilhelm Reich calls for an end to sexual repression, and he asks how we came to organize ourselves into societies in which such repression is enforced. He finds in Malinowski's _The Sexual Lives of Savages_ a description of how man deals with ...
Crossing the Aegean: An Appraisal of the 1923 Compulsory Population Exchange between Greece and Turkey ...
Berghahn Books
, 2003
A Thorough Study of the Event that Reshaped Greece and Turkey
"Crossing the Aegean - An Appraisal of the 1923 Compulsory Population Exchange Between Greece and Turkey" is a collection of thoughtful and well written articles, written by twelve different scholars. The authors of this book are professors and researchers with a ...
Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
John Taylor Gatto
New Society Publishers
, 2002
Incredibly Insightful!
I highly recommend this book, whether you're interested in the education debate or not! After 30 years as a New York public schoolteacher, Gatto has incredible insights into our culture's obsession with consumerism, production and efficiency, the breakdown of the ...
Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling
John Taylor Gatto
New Society Publishers
, 2008
Amazing book- A must read for anyone concerned for the future of our nation/
I received this book yesterday afternoon. Christmas Eve day was spent reading this book, highlighting it, writing notes and reading aloud chunks of it to my home educated children. And because it is Christmas Eve I will keep this review short. (Even though despite ...
A Place Called School : Twentieth Anniversary Edition
John Goodlad
McGraw-Hill
, 2004
First published 20 years ago, A Place Called School is the revolutionary account of the largest on-scene study of U.S. schools ever conducted. Carried on over four years, trained investigators entered more than 1,000 classrooms nationwide to talk to teachers, students, administrators, parents, and other community members. The result is this ...
The Comfort Women: Sexual Violence and Postcolonial Memory in Korea and Japan (Worlds of Desire: The Chicago ...
C. Sarah Soh
University Of Chicago Press
, 2009
In an era marked by atrocities perpetrated on a grand scale, the tragedy of the so-called comfort women?mostly Korean women forced into prostitution by the Japanese army?endures as one of the darkest events of World War II. These women have usually been labeled victims of a war crime, a simplistic view that makes it easy to pin blame on the ...
Compulsory Mis-Education, and the Community of Scholars.
Paul, Goodman
Random House Trade Paperbacks
, 1966
Frightenly prophetic
Written in 1964, Paul Goodman's anaylsis of the educational system and bureaucracy has proven all too true. The system has gone farther awry than even Mr. Goodman could have guessed, as we have added the penal system and mandatory sentencing to those discarded as ...
Compulsory Dancing: Talks and Essays on the Spiritual and Evolutionary Necessity of Emotional Surrender to ...
John Da Free
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Adi Da Samraj
, ...
Dawn Horse Press
, 1987
one of the best
this is in my opinion one of master da's best books
Separating School & State: How to Liberate America's Families
Sheldon Richman
Future of Freedom Foundation
, 1994
Good points about getting government out of education
This is a very well written book about why government should not be involved in educating children. One of the author's main points is that the public school system is failing because it is based on a socialist model. The author points out that most everyone agrees ...
The Coming Draft: The Crisis in Our Military and Why Selective Service Is Wrong for America
Philip Gold
Presidio Press
, 2006
To Draft or Not to Draft?
Excerpted from my review for The Orange County Register, 10/29/06 "Hell no, we won't go!" seemingly faded overnight ... until last year, when the Army missed its recruiting goal, lowered its physical standards and raised its age limit for enlistees to 42. ...
The Child and the State in India
Myron Weiner
Princeton University Press
, 1990
India has the largest number of non-schoolgoing working children in the world. Why has the government not removed them from the labor force and required that they attend school, as have the governments of all developed and many developing countries? To answer this question, this major comparative study first looks at why and when other states have ...
Horrors Of Vaccination Exposed And Illustrated: Petition To The President To Abolish Compulsory Vaccination ...
Charles Michael Higgins
Kessinger Publishing, LLC
, 2008
Vaccinations are dangerous and a crime forced on our society
This book is a fascinating look at our constitutional rights and the current medical trends that are taking those rights away. We have a right in this country to decide what is best for our bodies whether nutritional or medical. However, the FDA, AMA and other groups ...
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