Educating Your Child In Modern Times: Raising An Intelligent, Sovereign, & Ethical Human Being

108 Pages·2003·16.762 MB·English

by  John Taylor Gatto, Hamza Yusuf, Dorothy L. Sayers, Nabila Hanson

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Educating Your Children
in Modern Times

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Educating Your Children
in Modern Times
Raising an intelligent, sovereign & ethical human being
John Taylor Gatto
John Taylor Gatto
Hamza Yusuf Hanson
HamNzaab Yiulas uHf Hanasnosnon
DDoororoththy yS Saayeyersrs
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K I N Z A AC A D E M Y
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© 2003 Kinza Academy Inc.
Published by Kinza Academy Inc.
231 Market Place, #502
San Ramon, California, 94583
www.kinzaacademy.com
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or
transmitted in any form by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or otherwise,
without the prior written permission of Kinza Academy Inc.
ISbN 0-9741641-0-0
Cover and Text Design: Ian Whiteman
Cover & text design: Ian Whiteman
Cover photography courtesy of Kinza and Omar Alwazzani
A special thanks to John Taylor Gatto, Hamza Yusuf Hanson, Uzma Husaini, Arzina
Ali, Mona Elzankaly, and Rusha Latif for their generous help when they had little time
to spare.
Printed in the USA
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This book is dedicated to all the schoolchildren
of the world who are entitled to a real education
© 2003 Kinza Academy Inc.
and to a life worth living.
Published by Kinza Academy Inc.
231 Market Place, #502
San Ramon, California, 94583
www.kinzaacademy.com
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or
transmitted in any form by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or otherwise,
without the prior written permission of Kinza Academy Inc.
ISbN 0-9741641-0-0
Cover and Text Design: Ian Whiteman
Cover & text design: Ian Whiteman
Cover photography courtesy of Kinza and Omar Alwazzani
A special thanks to John Taylor Gatto, Hamza Yusuf Hanson, Uzma Husaini, Arzina
Ali, Mona Elzankaly, and Rusha Latif for their generous help when they had little time
to spare.
Printed in the USA

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CONTENTS
contents
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A Short Angry History
of Compulsory Schooling
John Taylor Gatto
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New Lamps for Old
Hamza Yusuf Hanson
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The Lost Tools of Learning
Dorothy Sayers
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When Play Is Work
Nabila Hanson
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“The human mind-brain system is designed for
functions radically different from and broader than its current
uses. An astonishing capacity for creative power is built into our
genes, ready to unfold. Our innate capacities of mind are
nothing less than miraculous, and we are born with a driving
intent to express this capacity.”
joseph chilton pearce,
author of Magical Child