Schooled

What This Book Covers

1. Chapter One - Before School Was School
2. Chapter Two - The First Nerd Factories
3. Chapter Three - Plato Built a Clubhouse
4. Chapter Four - Rome: The Worksheet Empire
5. Chapter Five - Monks, Manuscripts, and Misery
6. Chapter Six - The Renaissance Tutors Go Off
7. Chapter Seven - Bells, Rows, and Order: The Prussian Blueprint
8. Chapter Eight - Horace Mann Ruins Summer
9. Chapter Nine - Desks of Destiny
10. Chapter Ten - Homework, Hall Passes, and Hall Monitors
11. Chapter Eleven - Standardized and Sanitized
12. Chapter Twelve - Tablets, Zoom, and TikTok in the Back Row
13. Chapter Thirteen - The Kids Aren’t the Problem

Excerpt

CHAPTER ONE Before School Was School PICTURE THIS: A kid in animal skins, barefoot, sprinting across a rocky field with a stick in his hand. There’s no bell schedule. No lunch line. No math test waiting at home. Just a hungry saber-toothed cat, a nervous dad, and the distant hope that this child survives long enough to pass on his knowledge. That was school. Before education became a system, it was a survival strategy. You learned by watching your parents, your tribe, the older kids who hadn’t died yet. If you were lucky, someone took the time to show you how to not poison yourself with berries. If you were really lucky, you figured out how to make fire without losing your eyebrows. There...