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Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling | John Taylor Gatto

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This radical treatise on public education has been a best-seller for 10 years! Thirty years of award-winning teaching in New York City's public schools led John Gatto to the sad conclusion that compulsory governmental schooling does little but teach young people to follow orders as cogs in the industrial machine. In celebration of the ten-year anniversary of 'Dumbing Us Down' and to keep this classic current, the publisher has renewed the cover art, added new material about John and the impact of the book, and a new Foreword.

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Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling | John Taylor Gatto

Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist; it should furnish you with an original spirit with which to tackle the big challenges; it should allow you to find values which will be your roadmap through life; it should make you spiritually rich, a person who loves whatever you are doing, wherever you are, whomever you are with; it should teach you what is important, how to live and how to die.

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Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling | John Taylor Gatto

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Love this book! Really interesting read, I learn more each time I read it.

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