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Dumbing Us Down (25th Anniversary Edition)
- The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
- By: John Taylor Gatto
- Narrated by: Michael Puttonen, Adam Farnsworth
- Length: 4 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 45
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 43
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Story5 out of 5 stars 43
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.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Provoke Critical Thinking Surrounding Education
- By Marinna on 12-21-24
- Dumbing Us Down (25th Anniversary Edition)
- The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
- By: John Taylor Gatto
- Narrated by: Michael Puttonen, Adam Farnsworth
Excellence
Reviewed: 02-07-25
Until we are able to restore a humanistic version of school (predicated on a humanistic form of society), Gatto’s work will stand as a bulwark and a standard around which all who value our children can rally and resist the soul crushing nature of compulsory schooling.
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