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Dumbing Us Down - 25th Anniversary Edition: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

English

By (author): John Taylor Gatto

Throw off the shackles of formal schooling and embark upon a rich journey of self-directed, life-long learning

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, accomplishing little but to teach young people to follow orders like cogs in an industrial machine.

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's radical treatise on public education, a bestseller for 25 years, 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.

Featuring a new foreword from Zachary Slayback, an Ivy League dropout and cofounder of tech start-up career foundry Praxis, this 25th anniversary edition will inspire new generations of parents and students to take control of learning and kickstart an empowered society of self-directed lifetime-learners.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 239g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 19 May 2017
  • Publisher: New Society Publishers
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780865718548

About John Taylor Gatto

John Gatto was a schoolteacher for 30 years. He resigned in the Op-Ed pages of The New York Times 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 . Zachary Slayback is an entrepreneur Ivy League dropout and communicator focusing on issues of education innovation and social change. He's the author of The End of School (2016) and a founding team member at Praxis an apprenticeship program for young people looking for a real-world education.

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