draculasyndrome 's review for:

Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling by John Taylor Gatto

2.0

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While the author sounds like a huge boomer at points and is a little too “traditional values” for me, I do agree with the overarching critique of the US education system. However when his solution was to further privatize education and to allow the free market to work its magic he lost me. Read this book to understand the issue, look elsewhere for the solution.