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Title: Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling by John Taylor Gatto, Thomas Moore, David Albert ISBN: 0-86571-448-7 Publisher: New Society Pub Pub. Date: April, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.48 (60 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: It's Not About Bad Schools!!
Comment: John Taylor Gatto is my favorite writer on matters of the school system. In Dumbing Us Down, he espouses no particular type of alternative to public schools. Instead, he demonstrates what many non-homeschoolers don't understand - that it's not about 'bad schools'! It's about schooling being anti-education.
Gatto, a 26 year veteran of the New York city school system and twice winner of the New York State teacher of the year award, shows that schools serve to: confuse, dominate, strip self esteem, limit children's ability to work, shorten attention span, refuse to allow children to attempt to think for themselves, and many more anti-education practices. Through historical reference, Gatto shows how schooling is a modern phenomenom, closely linked to totalitarian governmental brainwashing. As an example to how schools are anti-education, he demonstrates that in the state of New Hampshire literacy rates have only gone down - drastically, from where they were before institutionalized schooling.
If you are a parent, read this book. You will never think the same way about your child's education again.
Rating: 5
Summary: refreshing honesty from a former public school teacher
Comment: You may be able to read this book in only a few hours but it may just change the way you view public schooling forever. John Taylor Gatto makes a compelling case for eliminating public "schooling" and returning education to the parents were it belongs. In one profound paragraph he neatly sums up the reason public schools don't educate. "The debate about whether we should have a national curriculum is phony. We already have a national curriculum locked up in the seven lessons outlined (Confusion, class position, indifference, emotional dependency, intellectual dependency, provisional self esteem, and one can't hide) such a curriculum produces phisical, moral and intellectual paralysis, and no curriculum of content will be sufficient to reverse its hideous effects. What is currently under disscussion in our national histeria about falling academic performance misses the point. Schools teach exactly what they are intended to teach and they do it well: how to be a good Egyptian and remain in your place in the pyramid." Clearly Mr Gatto knows the difference between "schooling" and real education and how to achieve the latter.()
Rating: 5
Summary: Tragically True
Comment: I put off reading this for a while because I was unable to find a copy to preread at my local library. I switched libraries and easily found a copy at my much larger, much better library. I think I may actually purchase this book. Its small size is deceptive as to the amount of information contained within. I had a rare educational experience growing up. I was in a private school, multiple public schools, and homeschooled. The sadness and despair I felt in the public schools still haunts me. The apathy and indifference exhibited by my peers was then and is still frightening now. The sheer amount of time watched of television on a daily basis was boggling. I think most people don't understand how much of their time it really takes. and I still do not understand the purpose of homework from a practical perpective. Is this theft of our children's childhoods really acceptable? Gatto was completely on the mark about many matters. The infection upon our country that is public education is distroying our nation. It is why we are unable to successful compete in the global labour markets. It is why most of your children can't read or do simple math, much less philosophize or perform calculus. That and the TV. Read this book. The whole thing. It is short, but extremely powerful.
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Title: The Exhausted School: Bending the Bars of Traditional Education by John Taylor Gatto ISBN: 1893163423 Publisher: Berkeley Hills Books Pub. Date: August, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Unschooling Handbook : How to Use the Whole World As Your Child's Classroom by Mary Griffith ISBN: 0761512764 Publisher: Prima Lifestyles Pub. Date: 29 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Teach Your Own: The John Holt Book of Homeschooling by John Holt, Patrick Farenga, Pat Farenga ISBN: 0738206946 Publisher: Perseus Publishing Pub. Date: 15 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: How Children Learn (Classics in Child Development) by John Caldwell Holt ISBN: 0201484048 Publisher: Perseus Publishing Pub. Date: September, 1995 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Learning All the Time by John Caldwell Holt ISBN: 0201550911 Publisher: Perseus Publishing Pub. Date: September, 1990 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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