Dumbing us down / Gatto, John Taylor

Contains essays and speeches in which John Gatto, a teacher in Manhattan's public schools for twenty-six years, explains why he believes public schools are failures, and discusses what children need to get a valuable education.

[An]... edition of John Gatto's essays and speeches in which the New York City teacher explains why he believes public schools are failures, and discusses what children need to get a valuable education.

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.

A tenth-anniversary edition of John Gatto's essays and speeches in which the New York City teacher explains why he believes public schools are failures, and discusses what children need to get a valuable education. Includes a new foreword, introduction, and afterword.