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A Short Angry History of Modern Schooling by John Taylor Gatto

Radical Personal Finance

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What Is the Purpose of the Taxonomy?

The National Teacher Training Document informed teacher educators that under these circumstances teachers were to be trained as therapists, translating prescriptions of social psychologists into practical action in the classroom. The third of the new gospel texts was Benjamin Bloom's Taxonomy. In his own words I am quoting, a tool to classify the way individuals are to act, think, or feel as a result of some unit of instruction. Using the methods of behavioral psychology children would learn improper thoughts, feelings and actions and have their improper attitudes brought from home remediated. All stages of school manipulation testing would be essential to locate the child's changing mind on an official rating scale.

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