Underground History of American Education


	Underground History of American Education

liotropi

5-27-2007 4:25 AM

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5-28-2007 12:07 AM

DizzyDezzi

As a homeschool parent, who just graduated her eldest son, I highly recommend this book. I got one of the first editions AND it is signed by the author, himself.

I also highly recommend "Dumbing Us Down" (John Taylor Gatto's first book).

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													<P><FONT size="3"><B>The shocking possibility that dumb people don’t exist in sufficient numbers to warrant the millions of careers devoted to tending them will seem incredible to you. Yet that is my central proposition: the mass dumbness which justifies official schooling first had to be dreamed of; it isn’t real. </B></FONT></p> <DIV align="left">
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															<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/underground/prologue.htm"><FONT size="3">Bianca, You Animal, Shut Up!</FONT></A>
															</LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/underground/prologue2.htm"><FONT size="3">I Quit, I Think</FONT></A>
															</LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/underground/prologue3.htm"><FONT size="3">The New Individualism</FONT></A>
															</LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/underground/prologue4.htm"><FONT size="3">School As Religion</FONT></A>
															</LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/underground/prologue5.htm"><FONT size="3">He Was Square Inside And Brown</FONT></A>
															</LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/underground/prologue6.htm"><FONT size="3">The New Dumbness</FONT></A>
															</LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/underground/prologue7.htm"><FONT size="3">Putting Pedagogy To The Question</FONT></A>
															</LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/underground/prologue8.htm"><FONT size="3">Author’s Note</FONT></A></LI></UL></DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/611EB067-C4FF-409D-8A7C-7001C5417497/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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