Dumbing Us Down - 25th Anniversary Edition: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling Paperback - 2017
by John Taylor Gatto
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A bestseller for 25 years, John Taylor Gatto's radical treatise on public education continues to advocate for the unshackling of children and learning from formal schooling
We don't need school reform. Schools are working exactly as their designers intended. We need more choices and options outside of school. At the end of the day, the person who creates those is you. Stop waiting for permission from others and create opportunities to learn. - ZACHARY SLAYBACK, from the Foreword
Education's most original thinker. - DANIEL H. PINK, author, Free Agent Nation
AFTER OVER 100 YEARS of mandatory schooling in the U.S., literacy rates have dropped, families are fragmented, learning "disabilities" are skyrocketing, and children and youth are increasingly disaffected. Thirty years of teaching in the public school system led John Taylor Gatto to the sad conclusion that compulsory governmental schooling is to blame.
He became a fierce advocate of families and young people taking back education and learning, arguing that "genius is as common as dirt," but that conventional schooling is driving out the natural curiosity and problem-solving skills we're born with, replacing it with rule-following, fragmented time, and disillusionment.
Gatto continues to bang the drum for an unshackling of children and learning from formal schooling. Now, in an ever-more-rapidly changing world, with an explosion of alternative routes to learning, it's poised to continue to shake the world of institutional education for many more years.
JOHN TAYLOR GATTO was a schoolteacher for 30 years. He resigned in the op-ed pages of The Wall Street Journal upon receiving the New York State Teacher of the Year award. He has been a fierce advocate for self directed "guerrilla" education for decades, and is also the author of Weapons of Mass Instruction and The Underground History of American Education
A one-man intellectual insurgency. - The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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- Title Dumbing Us Down - 25th Anniversary Edition: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
- Author John Taylor Gatto
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 25 ANV
- Pages 144
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher New Society Publishers
- Date 2017-05-19
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780865718548 / 0865718547
- Weight 0.5 lbs (0.23 kg)
- Dimensions 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.5 in (22.61 x 14.99 x 1.27 cm)
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Themes
- Topical: Family
- Library of Congress subjects Education - Aims and objectives - United, Educational sociology - United States
- Dewey Decimal Code 370.973
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