Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling by John Taylor Gatto

Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

John Taylor Gatto

142 pages first pub 1991 (editions)

nonfiction education politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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A highly praised best-seller for over a decade, this is a radical treatise on public education that concludes that compulsory government schooling does little but teach young people to follow orders like cogs in a machine. This Special Collector's...

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