Dumbing Us Down vs Metodo della pedagogia scientifica: Which Should You Read?

Dumbing Us Down John Taylor Gatto · 1991 ★★★★☆ 4.1 104 pages · ≈ 1 h 56 m · Challenging

“Networks don’t require the whole person, only a narrow piece. If, on the other hand, you function in a network, it asks you to suppress all the parts of yourself except the network-interest part — a highly unnatural act although one you can get used to. …If you enter into too many of these bargains, you will split yourself into many specialized pieces, none of them completely human.”

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Metodo della pedagogia scientifica Maria Montessori · 1912 377 pages · ≈ 6 h 59 m · Demanding

The Montessori Method (1912) is a work on pedagogy by Maria Montessori. Originally written in her native Italian to describe the work she carried out at the Casa dei Bambini in Rome, the book was translated into English…