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John Taylor Gatto




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avg rating: 4.21 | 894 ratings | 243 reviews | 10 distinct works | 3 fans
Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Cu... Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
by John Taylor Gatto
avg rating 4.19 — 521 ratings — published 1991
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The Underground History of Ame... The Underground History of American Education: An Intimate Investigation Into the Prison of Modern Schooling
by John Taylor Gatto
avg rating 4.27 — 115 ratings — published 2000
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A Different Kind of Teacher: S... A Different Kind of Teacher: Solving the Crisis of American Schooling
by John Taylor Gatto
avg rating 4.43 — 65 ratings — published 2000
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Weapons of Mass Instruction: A... Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling
by John Taylor Gatto
avg rating 3.98 — 45 ratings — published 2008
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Educating Your Child in Modern... Educating Your Child in Modern Times : Raising an Intelligent, Sovereign, & Ethical Human Being
by John Taylor Gatto, Hamza Yusuf Hanson
avg rating 4.41 — 17 ratings — published 2003
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The Exhausted School: Bending... The Exhausted School: Bending the Bars of Traditional Education
by John Taylor Gatto
avg rating 4.00 — 8 ratings — published 1993
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Instead of Education: Ways to... Instead of Education: Ways to Help People Do Things Better
by John Taylor Gatto
avg rating 4.33 — 3 ratings — published 2008
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Ken Kesey's One Flew over the... Ken Kesey's One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (Monarch Notes)
by John Taylor Gatto
avg rating 4.33 — 3 ratings — published 1972
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Are You My Father: Adventures... Are You My Father: Adventures in the Risky Business of Adoption
by John Taylor Gatto
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 1990
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Challenging the Giant: The Bes... Challenging the Giant: The Best of SKOLE, the Journal of Alternative Education, Vol. 4
by Mary M. (editor) Leue, John Taylor Gatto, John Potter
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2000
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"When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling."
— John Taylor Gatto
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"I urge you to examine in your own mind the assumptions which must lay behind using the police power to insist that once-sovereign spirits have no choice but to submit to being schooled by strangers."
— John Taylor Gatto
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"Shouldn't we also ask ourselves what the consequences are of scrambling to provide the "most" of everything to our children in a world of fast dwindling resources? "
— John Taylor Gatto (Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling)
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