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Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
by John Taylor Gatto
from New Society Publishers

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• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• Incredibly Insightful!
  I highly recommend this book, whether you're interested in the education debate or not! After 30 years as a New York public schoolteacher, Gatto has incredible insights into our culture's obsession with consumerism, production and efficiency, the breakdown of the family, how "networking" has miserably failed to meet the need for true community, and the kind of culture our method of schooling produces.
  Until we change our definition of "education" and leave the public school monopoly in the failed... more info

• Pre-set education results in collective stupidity
  It's about a time to reconsider what education is. For mass schooling damages students. We would actually need less school, not more!
  The truth is that schools only teach us how to follow orders. Of the millions of things of value to study, always somebody else decides what few you need to study - and how. They make us intellectually dependent animals! Like a good student always has to wait for a teacher to tell him what to do, a model citizen should also rely on other people to do the real thinking... more info

• Catholic and private schools worse!
  But private schools, esp. Catholic schools are even worse. The students are dullards and conformist. The only real creative learning occurs in public schools, because the teachers are the best and the children nice, not spoiled brats. If you want unthinking conformity, try Catholic school.

• A MUST READ FOR EVERY PARENT!! Scary, bone-chilling truths are revealed!
  I was glued to it from page 1. Actually, that's not true. I started long before page 1. You must read this book in it's entirety. Do not skip past the forwards or the "about the author" section! The whole thing was Fabulous. You really learn the truth about public schooling and it's agendas.
  Thank you so much John Gatto!

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