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The book of learning and forgetting

"Explains how schools and educational authorities systematically obstruct the powerful inherent learning abilities of children, creating handicaps that often persist through life."--Back cover
Print Book, English, 1998
Teachers College Press, New York, 1998
viii, 133 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9780807737507, 080773750X
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I. What's going on here? : 1. A tale of two visions
II. The classic view of learning and forgetting : 2. A question of identity
3. The immensity of children's learning
4. Joining the literacy club
5. Learning through life
III. The official theory of learning and forgetting : 6. Undermining traditional wisdom
7. Fabricating a theory of learning
8. The entry of the testers
9. More spoils of war
10. The official theory goes on-line
IV. Repairing the damage : 11. Liberating our own learning
12. Liberating schools and education