Full name: Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

Author: John Taylor Gatto Year: 1991 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Education, Non Fiction, Parenting Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780865714489 0865714487

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 Edition celebrates 100,000 copies or the book in print, and the book's on-going importance and popularity. Similar books: A Different Kind of Teacher by John Taylor Gatto What do I do Monday? by John Holt Weapons of Mass Instruction by John Taylor Gatto The End of Education by Neil Postman Deschooling Our Lives by Matt Hern The Death and Life of the Great American School System by Diane Ravitch How Children Fail by John Holt Left Back by Diane Ravitch Other People's Children by Lisa Delpit Reign of Error by Diane Ravitch The Shame of the Nation by Jonathan Kozol The Teenage Liberation Handbook by Grace Llewellyn 36 Children by Herbert Kohl Instead of Education by John Holt How Children Learn by John Holt How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare by Ken Ludwig Montessori by Paula Polk Lillard You Can't Say You Can't Play by Vivian Gussin Paley Guerrilla Learning by Grace Llewellyn Family Matters by David Guterson