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DUMBING US DOWN
THE HIDDEN CURRICULUM OF COMPULSORY SCHOOLING |
| By: |
John Taylor Gatto, Zachary Slayback (Foreword) |
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Paperback |
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£14.99 |
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£12.37 |
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£2.62 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0865718547 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780865718548 |
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Currently 8 available |
| Publisher: |
NEW SOCIETY PUBLISHERS |
| Pub. date: |
23 May, 2017 |
| Edition: |
25th Anniversary Edition |
| Pages: |
144 |
| Description: |
Throw off the shackles of formal schooling and embark upon a rich journey of self-directed, life-long learning |
| Synopsis: |
Over 80,000 copies sold Marks the 25th Anniversary of the first printing in 1992.John Taylor Gatto was an award-winning teacher in New York City's public school system for over thirty years.Gatto began to feel that he had been hired not to increase children's power, but to diminish itGatto questioned whether the bells, confinement, age-segregation, lack of privacy, and constant surveillance in the school system were deliberately designed to prevent children from learning how to learn and behave, and to coax them into addictive and dependent behaviour. Dumbing Us Down reveals the shocking reality that compulsory governmental schooling does little but teach young people to follow orders as cogs in the industrial machineGatto sets out how he worked to remove those obstacles to allow a child's inherent genius to reveal itself Dumbing Us Down has become a beacon for parents seeking alternatives to compulsory schooling |
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US |
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New Society Publishers |
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Returnable |
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