This study is a book review of John Taylor Gatto's work titled "Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling". The purpose of this study is to evaluate strengths and weaknesses of the book, while providing an insight about how the book was organized and what the main theme is. Although the book was published in 2010, its translations to other languages were carried out later; as an illustration, it was published in Turkey in 2018. Hence, this book review may also provide a new perspective which would make a longitudinal comparison possible. The strongest aspect of the book reviewed can be nominated as its success in establishing a concrete view of the current education system in the USA from a chronological perspective, which reproduces a gigantic social stratum of consumerist, self-alienated and harmless voters. The foremost weakness of the book is the author's proposition of a new approach entitled by the author as open-source learning, which relies on an irrational sampling and could pave the way for child labor, where child abuse is a major problem. All in all, the language used in the book makes it possible for every individual from and out of educational spheres to evaluate education system from a critical perspective.

这项研究是对约翰·泰勒·加托（John Taylor Gatto）的著作的书评，该著作的标题为“大规模教学武器：通过义务教育的黑暗世界进行的教师之旅”。这项研究的目的是评估该书的优缺点，同时提供有关该书的组织方式和主要主题是什么的见解。尽管该书于2010年出版，但后来又翻译成其他语言。作为示例，该书于2018年在土耳其出版。因此，该书评也可能提供一个新的观点，这将使纵向比较成为可能。从时间顺序的角度来看，本书的最强方面可以被提名为成功建立了美国当前教育体系的具体视图，它再现了巨大的消费主义，自立和无害选民的社会阶层。这本书的最主要弱点是作者提出了一种新方法的主张，该方法被作者称为开放源代码学习，它依赖于非理性抽样，并可能为虐待童工是一个主要问题的童工铺平道路。总而言之，本书所使用的语言使每个来自教育领域的人都可以从批判性的角度评估教育系统。