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Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling Special Interest "Gracefully written essays turn gentlyThe transformation of schooling from a twelve year jail sentence to freedom to learn. John Taylor Gatto's Weapons of Mass Instruction , now available in paperback, focuses on mechanisms of traditional education which cripple imagination, discourage critical thinking, and create a false view of learning as a byproduct of rote memorization drills. Gatto's earlier book, Dumbing Us Down , introduced the now famous expression of the title into the common