About the Book :
Gatto comes down hard on the industrial one-size-fits-all schooling model. He
argues that not only are schools irrelevant to the lives of children, they are
in fact damaging. His central thesis is that factory schooling is causing great
harm to children and communities. It is an anti-learning, anti-social and
anti-democratic activity. Manish Jain, Shikshantar Andolan
Continuous ringing of the bells, from one compartment to another compartment,
every day eight hours of confinement, the age-segregation like vegetables, the
lack of privacy and constant surveillance, the crazy sequences, cut-off from the
working community and all the rest of the national curriculum of schooling are
designed exactly as