Summary
Contains essays and speeches in which John Gatto, a teacher in Manhattan's public schools for twenty-six years, explains why he believes public schools are failures, and discusses what children need to get a valuable education. Full description
- Introduction to the Second Edition / by David Albert
- Publisher's note from the First Edition
- About the author
- The seven-lesson schoolteacher
- The psychopathic school
- The green Monongahela
- We need less school, not more
- The congregational principle
- Afterword: to the Tenth Anniversary Edition
- Postscript 2005 from the publisher.