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Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling cormac mccarthy readers will learn to predictJohn Taylor Gattos Weapons of Mass Instruction, focuses on mechanisms of traditional education that cripple imagination, discourage critical thinking, and create a false view of learning as a byproduct of rote memorization drills. Gattos earlier book, Dumbing Us Down, introduced the now famous expression of the title into the common vernacular. Weapons of Mass Instruction adds another chilling metaphor to the brief against conventional schooling.