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Thirty years of award-winning teaching in New York City's public schools led John Gatto to the sad conclusion that compulsory government schooling has nothing to do with education, doing little but teach young people to conform to the economy and the social order. Dumbing Us Dow…
Offers a treatise on public education. Thirty years of award-winning teaching in New York City's public schools led the author to the sad conclusion that compulsory governmental schooling does little but teach young people to follow orders as cogs in the industrial machine.
Contains essays and speeches in which John Gatto, a teacher in Manhattan's public schools for twenty-six years, explains why he believes public schools are failures, and discusses what children need to get a valuable education.
"With a foreword by Eric Metaxas, best-selling author of Bonhoeffer and Amazing Grace. The enthralling biography of the womanwriter who helped end the slave trade, changed Britain's upper classes, and taught a nation how to read. The history-changing reforms of Hannah More affec…
