Dumbing Us Down
John Taylor Gatto
148 pages
This radical treatise on public education has been a New Society Publishers' bestseller 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, we are renewing the cover art, adding new material about John and the impact of the book, and a new Foreword.
For a more concise and passionate critique of the education system, Gatto's essay provides a powerful summary of the shortcomings of conventional teaching methods.
This book challenges conventional views on education and encourages critical thinking about its impact on society.