EDUCATION’S NOT THE POINT: WHY SCHOOLS FAIL TO TRAIN CHILDREN’S MINDS AND NURTURE THEIR CHARACTERS
These essays are a "must read" for parents concerned about their children's education. John Taylor Gatto gives some insights into the "dumbed-down" nature of modern schools, the men behind modern schooling, and why the schools are not designed to provide an "education" for our children.
Additional essays by Dorothy L. Sayers, The Lost Tools of Learning and Elizabeth Y. Hanson, Is a Head Start Damaging Our Children’s Hearts?
John Taylor Gatto’s, THE ADVENTURES OF SNIDER, THE CIA SPIDER…
(Best-seller author of Dumbing Us Down)
John Taylor Gatto’s only book for children, written as a language arts course with one of his 6th grade classes.
ABOUT THE BOOK
The Adventures of Snider, the CIA Spider is a fabulously funny epic comic about a spider who is a big thinker with a fantastic plan for his life: becoming a CIA spy! Our spider, Snider, leaves his wife Wanda and their 26 children on the Irrawaddy River, while he sets out on a banana peel boat headed to Washington DC in pursuit of his dream.
For teachers, he explains how he taught his course in his original introduction to the book.
“SHAKE-SPEARE’S” TREATISE ON VERSE
George Gascoigne's long-forgotten treatise, now rendered accessible for the modern reader, is a poet's bible. A rare book in an age when the science and art of poetry have been abandoned, it should help to revive an art that we cannot afford to lose.
"To those who are of the belief that the majestic plays of "Shake-speare" were written by an illiterate country lad from north of London, then this technical treatise on verse is where he learned his skill if ever he was in need of such instruction."
— D. J. Hanson
Lost Tools Press
The name Lost Tools Press is borrowed from the famous essay, The Lost Tools of Learning, by Dorothy Sayers. In it, Sayers humorously reminisces about the forgotten tools of learning, otherwise known as the seven liberal arts: grammar, logic, rhetoric, arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music.
Lost Tools Press aims to raise the bar by publishing books that speak to a higher ideal in literature. There is no particular genre for the press, only that each Lost Tools book will be chosen for its inherent ability to improve the reader's mind.
It’s not difficult to knock the curiosity out of a child.