John Taylor Gatto

Dumbing Us Down

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With over 70,000 copies of the first edition in print, this radical treatise on public education has been a New Society Publishers’ bestseller for 10 years! Thirty years in New York City’s public schools led John Gatto to the sad conclusion that compulsory schooling does little but teach young people to follow orders like cogs in an industrial machine. This second edition describes the wide-spread impact of the book and Gatto’s “guerrilla teaching.”
John Gatto has been a teacher for 30 years and is a recipient of the New York State Teacher of the Year award. His other titles include A Different Kind of Teacher (Berkeley Hills Books, 2001) and The Underground History of American Education (Oxford Village Press, 2000).
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140 printed pages
Original publication
2017
Publication year
2017
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  • jurnal369has quoted2 years ago
    School sequences aren’t like that, not inside a single class and not among the total menu of daily classes. School sequences are crazy. There is no particular reason for any of them, nothing that bears close scrutiny.
  • jurnal369has quoted2 years ago
    learning happens when the teacher has other things in mind. I believe this kind of learning can be shaped and even taught, not in schools as we know them
  • jurnal369has quoted2 years ago
    believed in what John Gatto calls “self-teaching."

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