books by John Taylor Gatto

books by John Taylor Gatto

books:

John Taylor Gatto

Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

John Taylor Gatto

New Society Publishers, 2002

Incredibly Insightful!
I highly recommend this book, whether you're interested in the education debate or not! After 30 years as a New York public schoolteacher, Gatto has incredible insights into our culture's obsession with consumerism, production and efficiency, the breakdown of the ...

The Underground History of American Education: A School Teacher's Intimate Investigation of the Problem of ...

John Taylor; Taylor Gatto, John Gatto

Odysseus Group, 2000

The Truth
John Taylor Gatto is a former New York public schoolteacher who taught for thirty years and won multiple awards for his teaching. However, constant harassment by unhelpful administrations plus his own frustrations with what he came to realize were the inherent ...

Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling
John Taylor Gatto

New Society Publishers, 2008

John Taylor Gatto's Weapons of Mass Instruction focuses on mechanisms of familiar schooling that cripple imagination, discourage critical thinking, and create a false view of learning as a by-product of rote-memorization drills. Gatto's earlier book, Dumbing Us Down , put that now-famous expression of the title into common use worldwide. ...

A Different Kind of Teacher: Solving the Crisis of American Schooling

John Taylor Gatto

Berkeley Hills Books, 2002

A Different Kind of Teacher
I wished I would have had Mr. Gatto as a teacher. I wished I would had read this book before sending our son off to public school 35 years ago. I am glad I have read it now, as my grandchildren will be entering school in the next five years. I have purchased two ...

The Exhausted School: The First National Grassroots Speakout on the Right to School Choice

Oxford Village Press, 1993

Renegade Thought
In 1991 New York Teacher of the Year John Taylor Gatto and a former student of his rented Carnegie Hall for the night, invited many different representatives from the unschooling and alternative education world to speak, and turned them loose on an audience of about a ...

The Exhausted School: Bending the Bars of Traditional Education

Berkeley Hills Books, 2002

There are successful educat. alternatives to public school!
This book is the transcript of an event put together by John Taylor Gatto, featuring various educators as speakers, discussing successful alternatives to government (public) schools. The event was called "The Exhausted School" and took place in Carnegie Hall on ...

The Underground History of American Education

John Taylor Gatto

The Oxford Village Press, 2001

Never confuse public schooling with a true education
I read this book after a lifetime of public schooling- from kindergarten to graduate school. In fact, I had trained to be a teacher myself at one point. When I found this book I literally could not put it down. Gatto was stating everything that I had intuitively known ...

Challenging the Giant: The Best of SKOLE, the Journal of Alternative Education, Vol. 4
John Taylor Gatto, Chris Mercogliano

Down-To-Earth Books, 2000

Challenging the Giant: The Best of SKOLE, the Journal of Alternative Education, Vol. 3
Chris Mercogliano

Down-To-Earth Books, 1996

EDUCATING YOUR CHILD IN MODERN TIMES-RAISING AN INTLELLIGENT,SOVEREIGN & ETHICAL HUMAN BEING (PART 1 & 2 OF A ...
JOHN TAYLOR GATTO, HAMZA YUSUF HANSON

ALHAMBRA PRODUCTIONS, 2003

THIS CD CONTAINS PART 1&2 OF A FOUR PART SERIES:PART 1 CLASSICAL vs MODERN EDUCATION PART 2 THE SHORT ANGRY HISTORY OF MODERN EDUCATION

Dumbing Us Down: the Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

John Taylor Gatto

New Society, 1999

Five simple essays on education
The book consists of five essays on the education system in the US. The first two essays are acceptance speeches for teaching awards that Gatto received. The first, which Gatto gave while accepting a Teacher of the Year Award for New York State, addresses the seven ...