The Hidden Curriculum of School
"Elementary schools for children of the working classes" were given the task of ensuring that the poor would continue to accept docilely their dismal station in life.
7. Render: Jerry Interviews Esther
10 Provocative Quotes from Ivan Illich's "Deschooling Society"
2021-10 ExO/LL Swarm 1: LatAm Economy in 10?
2022-08-18 OGM Check-in Call
2022-08-23 Brandon/Jerry Call
I (Your Teacher) am God in the Classroom
Keep Still or Be Labeled a Troublemaker
Only I Determine What Curriculum You Will Study
Relative Grading Is a Social Sorting Mechanism
Stay in the Class Where You Belong
Surrender Your Will to a Predestined Chain of Command
Training (Educating) the Elites to Control Everything
Training the Masses to Be Good Consumers and Worker Bees
Turn Off When I Tell You To
We Can Reduce Your Worth to a Grade or Test Score
We Won't Leave You Enough Time to Dive Deep
We've Designed the School around Averages
You Are Being Watched (in school)
You Can't Be Trusted on Your Own
You Don't Control Your Own Time
You Will Be Evaluated by Machines and Outsiders Who Don't Care about You
Your Age Determines Whom You Learn With
Your Self-Respect Should Depend on an Observer's Measure of Your Worth
Critiques of Compulsory Education
Hidden Architectures of Mistrust
My 10 Minutes at DazzleCon
My Favorite Nuggets (and Narratives)
Six-Lesson Schoolteacher (1991)
Ways We Create Scarcity in the Compulsory Education System
"Cells and Bells" Schools
"Education Is a System of Indoctrination of the Young"
"From a very early age, I've had to interrupt my education to go to school."
5. Structure Communicates as Powerfully as Words, and Often More Powerfully
5 Things It Turns Out You Were Right to Hate About School
6 Problems with our School System
95 Ways “Education” Hurts Students
2022-02-26 People First at Material Change
Aborigines Domesticated the Landscape, Not Individual Species
Adam Smith Was Funded by Slave Profiteers, Yet Didn't Factor Slavery in His Theories
Afraid Their Ideas Would Be Stolen, the Wright Brothers Blew a Ten Year Lead
Against School: How Public Education Cripples Our Kids, and Why (2003)
All Kids are born geniuses, but are crushed by society itself
Bacon and Eggs for Breakfast
Bernays Was Freud's Nephew. Got His Works Translated into English and Became Top Consultant for Using Psychology.
Cereal Grains Made It Easy to Tax People
Churchill Wouldn't Release Food Supplies to the Bengalis
CIA and UFCo Effect Coup in Guatemala (1954)
Civilization's Central Problem (the school system)
Class and the Classroom (2001)
Clueless—2: “School Failure” as a State of Exception
Comparison of Hidden Curriculum Theories (2009 pdf)
Compulsory Education Creates Dysfunctions We Later Have to Fix
Compulsory Education Was Designed to Develop Consumers and Docile Workers
Compulsory Mis-Education and the Community of Scholars (1964)
Compulsory Schools Teach the Modern OCD: Obedience, Compliance and Dependence
Computing as a Liberal Art
Contrarian Ideas I Believe
Crisis In The Classroom, The Remaking of American Education (9780394713533)
Curing Scurvy In the British Navy (1553-1804)
Curitiba's Rebirth Under Lerner
Design from trust (my Gain talk)
Designing from Trust in the Never Normal (2022 interview)
Doing School: How We Are Creating a Generation of Stressed Out, Materialistic and Miseducated Students
E.F. Schumacher on education
Education and the Cult of Efficiency: A Study of the Social Forces That Have Shaped the Administration of the Public Schools (1962)
Education Without Compulsion: Toward New Visions of Gifted Education (pdf)
Entrepreneurs: 5 Things to Un-Learn From School
Farragut Became a Midshipman at Nine, Was in Charge of a Ship at Twelve
Fear of Failure Is Crippling Our Educational System
Gingrich Created the Current Political Rift in America
Good Fences Make Good Neighbors
Guano Shipment Brought Potato Blight to Europe
GW Hill Ordered Bernays to Get Women Smoking Outdoors
Hacking the Curriculum & Open Source Learning (Foreword for David Preston’s Open Source Learning)
Hidden Curriculum of Medicine
Hidden Curriculum of Parenting
How Grades Undermine Learning
How to Take An Exam...and Remake the World
IBM Jumps on the Web and Open Source (1994)
In Public Education, Edge Still Goes to Rich
Institutionalized Traumas
It's time to rewild the child
Jaden Smith’s bizarre anti-education tweets: “School Is The Tool To Brainwash The Youth”
Jeff Bliss, a High School student gives a lesson to his teacher at Duncanville
John Bennett - Why Math Instruction Is Unnecessary
John Holt interviewed in Pullman, WA
Kindergarten Today: Less Play, More Academics
Leafcutter Ants Can't Digest Leaves
Lessing’s Advice to Schoolchildren
Let’s Stop Preparing Kids to Hate Their Work
Medical education: Beware the hidden curriculum
Much of the American Land Mass Was under Active Human Management before Columbus
Nine Dangerous Things You Were Taught In School
Nixon Told Butz to Make Food Cheap
Nobel Prize Winners Hate School
One Size Does Not Fit All: A Student's Assessment of School (2012)
Open Source Learning (2009 OSL)
Parallel Pipelines: How Your School Creates both Prisoners and Abusive Cops
Parole (prisoners give their word)
Play Passion Purpose: Tony Wagner
Products Bernays Helped Popularize
Promising Solutions to World Crises and Thorny Social Problems
Public "Education" has become indoctrination and distraction
Public Schooling Is like Slavery
Quakers Helped Launch the Industrial Revolution
Quote: Most of the stuff they study in school is completely useless
Race to Nowhere: The Dark Side of America’s Achievement Culture (2009)
Reclaiming Our Children, Reclaiming the World
Replace the Compulsory Education System (little by little)
Rethinking the 3Rs: The Future of "Smart"
Role Models for DfT Principles
Santorum And Harvard Anarchist Agree: Public Schools Must Be Abolished
Schooling Dampens Children's Sense of Agency
Schooling in the U.S.: Destroying adolescent well-being while forcing teens to engage in useless activities
Schooling the world (2014)
Schooling the World: The White Man's Last Burden (2011)
Schools Are Petri Dishes for Kids - Disconnected from Real Life
Schools on Trial: How Freedom and Creativity Can Fix Our Educational Malpractice (2016)
Seven-Lesson Schoolteacher (1992)
Spanish Brought Potatoes from Peru (~1570), But Europeans Wouldn't Eat Them
Spanish Cult of Ham Was for Outing Converts
Start by Trusting Students - Start by Trusting Teachers
Stop Stealing Dreams (2012)
Success at School vs Success in Life
Teacher spends two days as a student and is shocked at what she learns
Teacher’s resignation letter: ‘My profession … no longer exists’
Teachers Don’t Like Creative Students
Ten systemic problems with school (formal education)
The American Revolutionary War Was Actually a Successful Civil War
The Book of Learning and Forgetting
The British Navy's Rules that Led to Rule Brittania
The Case against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money
The Coming Revolution in Public Education
The complete list of problems with high-stakes standardized tests
The Cult of Smart: How Our Broken Education System Perpetuates Social Injustice (2020)
The Day the FBI Knocked on Adam Lanza’s Door
The Hidden Curriculum (1970)
The Hidden Curriculum of Work
The Hidden Curriculum: Practical Solutions for Understanding Unstated Rules in Social Situations (2004)
The Objective of Education Is Learning, Not Teaching
The Origins and Ideals of the Modern School (1913)
The Profound Ways that Schooling Harms Society: Incredibly, All of This Is Invisible to Our Culture (xlnt)
The Public-School Failure (1880 essay)
The Quirky Advantages of Prohibitions and Persecutions
The Surprising Truth About Learning in Schools
The Underground History of American Education (2000)
THE PEOPLE VS THE SCHOOL SYSTEM
Things Fall Apart: Schooling, Becoming, Not Being
TX Board of Education Chooses Textbooks for 1/2 the Nation
Types of Distance (in killing)
United Classrooms: Zak Ringelstein and Leah Schrader
US Educators Imported the Prussian Military Education Model Designed for Bismarck
Valedictorian Speaks Out Against Schooling in Graduation Speech
Waiting for Superman (2010)
War of Currents (Edison Fought Tesla on Electricity)
Watt's Patents Held Back Innovation in the Steam Engine until They Expired
Ways We Snipped Long Term Relationships in Finance, Paving the Way for the GFC
We are born creative geniuses and the education system dumbs us down, according to NASA scientists
Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling
We've Been Suffering from a Yang Overdose for 300 to 3000 Years
What Happened to Recess and Why Are Our Children Struggling in Kindergarten? (1999)
What if students controlled their own learning?
What if we trusted you?: Jerry Michalski at TEDxCopenhagen 2012
When Schools Become Dead Zones of the Imagination: A Critical Pedagogy Manifesto (too much)
When you know it’s time to go.
Who is ruining our schools? Sorry to tell you: it is you
Who or What Broke My Kids?
Why Don't Students Like School?: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom
Why High Schoolers Should Be In Charge: Sam Levin
Why Kids Hate School? (2012)
Why schools are failing our boys
Why Schools Don't Educate (1990)
Why We Must Abolish Schooling
Why We Should Stop Segregating Children by Age: Part I
Why You Should Care How I Learn: Eric Smalls
Wounded by School: Recapturing the Joy in Learning and Standing Up to Old School Culture
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The Hidden Curriculum of School