A review by caffeine_books
Dumbing Us Down -25th Anniversary Edition: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling - 25th Anniversary Edition by John Taylor Gatto

informative medium-paced

3.0

"Education and schooling, as we all have experienced, are mutually exclusive terms." This book was written by a teacher who was in the school system for 30+ years and saw the damage done to the students. School is a factory that sets kids up to follow orders and not to think.  Children are not being educated, the author argues that federally run education will never work and that education needs to be left to the individual state and family.