Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory SchoolingA new look for a radical bestseller! |
Contents
THE SEVENLESSON SCHOOLTEACHER | 1 |
THE PSYCHOPATHIC SCHOOL | 20 |
THE GREEN MONONGAHELA | 35 |
WE NEED LESS SCHOOL NOT MORE | 46 |
THE CONGREGATIONAL PRINCIPLE | 73 |
to the Tenth Anniversary Edition | 95 |
from the Publisher | 104 |
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Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling John Taylor Gatto Limited preview - 2002 |
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abstract American AMERICAN SOLUTION answer bells better central century certified children I teach choice church compulsory schooling Congregational Congregationalism Congregationalists Dan Greenberg Dedham dependent Dumbing economy England experience government monopoly schooling grade GREEN MONONGAHELA grow Hannah Arendt hidden curriculum homeschool human idea important indifference individual institutional schooling John Gatto John Taylor Gatto's Kesey's kids lesson I teach lives machines manage mass schooling Massachusetts meaning Milagros Monarch Notes Monongahela River national curriculum natural need less school networks never Oxford Village parents percent person poor problem produce Psychopathic School pyramid reform school nightmare schoolteacher seven-lesson Sleeper Awakes social engineers Society Publishers solution surveillance survive talk taught Taylor Gatto teacher television tell things Thomas Moore tion town Wal-Mart writing York City young