Dumbing Us Down

The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

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John Taylor Gatto: Dumbing Us Down (Paperback, 2002, New Society Publishers)

Brossura, 103 pagine

lingua English

Pubblicato il 07 Aprile 2002 da New Society Publishers.

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978-0-86571-448-9
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wow. the sort of stuff generally written off as left-wing crank-isms. to the contrary, the final lines of the first essay (delivered, of all things, as a speech at acceptance of the NY State Teacher of the Year award 1991!):

"School is a twelve-year jail sentence where bad habits are the only curriculum truly learned. I teach school and win awards doing it. I should know."

The preceding essay is structured around the "Seven lessons universally taught" - Confusion, class position, indifference, emotional dependency, intellectual dependency, provisional self-esteem, and one can't hide.

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