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In this tenth-anniversary edition, Gatto updates his theories on how the U.S. educational system cranks out students the way Detroit cranks out Buicks. He contends that students are more programmed to conform to economic and social norms rather than really taught to think.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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This radical treatise on public education has been a best-seller for 10 years! Thirty years of award-winning teaching in New York City's public schools led John Gatto to the sad conclusion that compulsory governmental schooling does little but teach young people to follow orders as cogs in the industrial machine. In celebration of the ten-year anniversary of 'Dumbing Us Down' and to keep this classic current, the publisher has renewed the cover art, added new material about John and the impact of the book, and a new Foreword.
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That is exactly what this book helped me to realize. Gatto makes us look hard and long at the "education" we receive at the hands of the government. Our education system was set up by business owners who wanted to have docile workers with minimum hassels. And did they ever do a great job! The first step is reading this book. The second and more challenging step is to decide what to do with the information revealed in this book. I strongly suggest this book for anyone who wants to take a good look into our education system and its faults. I do not think that anyone could read this book and not have their life affected by the realization that what he is describing in this book has already been done to you! This is one of those rare books that changes lives and I encourage you to read it and then pass it on!
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After 26 years of teaching in the New York public schools, John Taylor Gatto has seen a lot. His book,Dumbing Us Down, is a treatise against what he believes to be the destructive nature of schooling. The book opens with a chapter called "The Seven-Lesson Schoolteacher," in which he outlines sevenharmful lessons he must convey as a public schoolteacher: 1.) confusion 2.) class position 3.) indifference 4.) emotional dependency 5.) intellectual dependency 6.) provisional self-esteem 7.) constant surveillance and the denial of privacy.
How ironic it is that Gatto's first two chapters contain the text of his acceptance speeches for NewYork State and City Teacher of the Year Awards. How ironic indeed, that he uses his own award presentation as a forum to attack the very same educational system that is honoring him! Gatto describes schooling, as opposed to learning, as a "twelve-year jail sentence where bad habits are the onlycurriculum truly learned. I teach school and win awards doing it," taunts the author.
While trapped in this debilitative system along with his students, Gatto, observed in them anoverwhelming dependence. He believes that school teaches this dependence by purposely inhibitingindependent thinking, and reinforcing indifference to adult thinking. He describes his students as"having almost no curiosity, a poor sense of the future, are a historical, cruel, uneasy with intimacy, and materialistic."
Gatto suggests that the remedy to this crisis in education is less time spent in school, and more timespent with family and "in meaningful pursuits in their communities." He advocates apprenticeships andhome schooling as a way for children to learn. He even goes so far as to argue for the removal of certification requirements for teachers, and letting "anybody who wants to, teach."
Gatto's style of writing is simple and easy to follow. He interlaces personal stories throughout the book to bring clarity and harmony to his views, while also drawing on logic and history to support his ideas about freedom in education and a return to building community. He clearly distinguishes communities from networks: "Communities ... are complex relationships of commonality and obligation," whereas, "Networksdon't require the whole person, but only a narrow piece."
While Gatto harshly criticizes schooling, we must realize that his opinions do come as a result of 26 yearsof experience and frustration with the public school system. Unfortunately, whether or not one agrees with his solutions, he has not outlined the logistics of how these improvements would be implemented. His ideas are based on idealism, and the reality of numbers and economics would present many obstacles. Nevertheless, it gives us a clear vision and a direction to follow for teachers and parents who believe in the family as the most important agent for childrearing and growth.
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As any student actually caught in this system who has the slight weakness of thinking for themselves would know something is very wrong. This book gives valuable insight to what so many people will ignore anyways. As someone who survived high school and though ACT scores is now surviving college, I have first hand experience with the joke of a public education system. I long ago decided to take my education in my own hands and this leads me to books like these that actually make me think. Something I didnt do in school except to serve as a survival reflex. School has always just been a hinderance to learning and now I strive to learn enough so I can escape the circles. Or atleast be one of the most powerful prisoners, maybe even change things for my tribe:) Grrrrrrr!
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Are they really "Dumbing us Down"
I had this book hanging in my Wish list and do not remember why and finally downloaded a Kindle edition. My rating is based on the presentation and writing and not on Mr. Lesen Sie weiter...
Vor 5 Monaten von J. Kimbrough veröffentlicht
Powerful and Thought Provoking-HONEST ASSESSMENT!
Just the subtitle alone says alot, "The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling", think about how difficult it is to feed someone who isn't hungry? Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 29. Mai 2000 von Bernadette A. Moyer
refreshing honesty from a former public school teacher
You may be able to read this book in only a few hours but it may just change the way you view public schooling forever. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 18. April 2000 von "yoco"
A Man with a Mission; No More Dumbing?
In the first section of Gatto's collection of essays we learn his thoughts on teaching in the public system. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 23. März 2000 von Jesse Turner
The need for change
John Gatto received the "New York State Teacher of the Year " award for 1991. He describes what he feels is happening in the state of education and the changes he feels... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 18. März 2000 von Jennifer B Caccamise
Makes sense if you suspected something was wrong with school
If you loved school, if you never stared at the clock and wondered why it didn't move faster, if you liked all the regimented learning, you will not like this book. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 22. Januar 2000 von Marshall Fritz
Why parents must gain control of education
You will rethink the whole idea of "public schooling as we know it," if you read this book. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 11. November 1999 von Kathleen K. Melonakos
Thank you, Mr. Gatto!
In Dumbing Us Down, Mr. Gatto gives his first person perspective on the tragic waste of human potential induced by coerced 12-year confinement of the young to the artificial and... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 12. Juli 1999 veröffentlicht
A Call to Minds
Our kids are killing our kids...and we're responsible. Our kids are mad, unfulfilled, and unheard--they know it, and we know it, but not why. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 16. Februar 1999 veröffentlicht
original thinker
John Gatto is such an original thinker. i can't get enough of his ideas. I have other stuff by him, but i wish he would put out the book about families that he talked about. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 28. Januar 1999 veröffentlicht
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