Dumbing Us Down : The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Education

by Gatto, John Taylor

• ISBN13: 9780865715196
• ISBN10: 086571519X
• Edition: Limited
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-03-30
• Publisher: Consortium Book Sales & Dist

Summary

A highly praised bestseller for over a decade, Dumbing Us Down 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 Hardcover Edition celebrates 100,000 copies of the book in print, and the book's on-going importance and popularity. John Gatto was a teacher in New York City's public schools for over 30 years and is a recipient of the New York State Teacher of the Year award. A much-sought after speaker on education throughout North America, his other books include A Different Kind of Teacher (Berkeley Hills Books, 2001) and The Underground History of American Education (Oxford Village Press, 2000).

Table of Contents

Foreword	xi
Thomas Moore
Introduction to the Second Edition	xv
David Albert
Publisher's Note -- from the First Edition	xxviii
About the Author	xxxi
The Seven-Lesson Schoolteacher	1	(19)
The Psychopathic School	20	(15)
The Green Monongahela	35	(11)
We Need Less School, Not More	46	(27)
The Congregational Principle	73	(22)
Afterword: to the Tenth Anniversary Edition	95	(9)
Postscript 2005---from the Publisher	104