{"product_id":"dumbing-us-down-25th-anniversary-edition-the-hidden-curriculum-of-compulsory-schooling-paperback","title":"Dumbing Us Down - 25th Anniversary Edition: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJohn Taylor Gatto\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e Throw off the shackles of formal schooling and embark upon a rich journey of self-directed, life-long learning \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e He became a fierce advocate of families and young people taking back education and learning, arguing that genius is as common as dirt, but that conventional schooling is driving out the natural curiosity and problem-solving skills we're born with, replacing it with rule-following, fragmented time, and disillusionment. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Gatto's radical treatise on public education, a New Society Publishers bestseller for 25 years, continues to bang the drum for an unshackling of children and learning from formal schooling. Now, in an ever-more-rapidly changing world with an explosion of alternative routes to learning, it's poised to continue to shake the world of institutional education for many more years. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Featuring a new foreword from Zachary Slayback, an Ivy League dropout and cofounder of tech start-up career foundry Praxis, this 25th anniversary edition will inspire new generations of parents and students to take control of learning and kickstart an empowered society of self-directed lifetime-learners. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e A bestseller for 25 years, John Taylor Gatto's radical treatise on public education continues to advocate for the unshackling of children and learning from formal schooling \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e We don't need school reform. Schools are working exactly as their designers intended. We need more choices and options outside of school. At the end of the day, the person who creates those is you. Stop waiting for permission from others and create opportunities to learn. \u003c\/i\u003e - ZACHARY SLAYBACK, from the Foreword \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e Education's most original thinker. \u003c\/i\u003e - DANIEL H. PINK, author, \u003ci\u003e Free Agent Nation \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e He became a fierce advocate of families and young people taking back education and learning, arguing that genius is as common as dirt, but that conventional schooling is driving out the natural curiosity and problem-solving skills we're born with, replacing it with rule-following, fragmented time, and disillusionment. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Gatto continues to bang the drum for an unshackling of children and learning from formal schooling. Now, in an ever-more-rapidly changing world, with an explosion of alternative routes to learning, it's poised to continue to shake the world of institutional education for many more years. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e JOHN TAYLOR GATTO was a schoolteacher for 30 years. He resigned in the op-ed pages of \u003ci\u003e The Wall Street Journal \u003c\/i\u003e upon receiving the New York State Teacher of the Year award. He has been a fierce advocate for self directed guerrilla education for decades, and is also the author of \u003ci\u003e Weapons of Mass Instruction \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003e The Underground \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e History of American Education \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e A one-man intellectual insurgency. - The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e John Gatto \u003c\/b\u003e was a schoolteacher for 30 years. He resigned in the Op-Ed pages of The New York Times upon receiving the New York State Teacher of the Year award. He has been a fierce advocate for self-directed guerrilla education for decades, and is also the author of \u003ci\u003e Weapons of Mass Instruction \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003e The Underground History of American Education \u003c\/i\u003e . \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Zachary Slayback \u003c\/b\u003e is an entrepreneur, Ivy League dropout, and communicator, focusing on issues of education, innovation, and social change. 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