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

Anniversary ed. — New Society Publishers, 2017. — 86 p. — ASIN B072F9VRZP, ISBN: 0865718563, 0865718547.John Taylor Gatto's radical treatise on public education, a New Society Publishers bestseller for 25 years, continues to advocate for the unshackling of children and learning from formal schooling. Now, in an ever-more-rapidly changing world with an explosion of alternative routes to learning, it's poised to continue to shake the world of institutional education for many more years.
Thirty years in New York City’s public schools led John Gatto to the sad conclusion that compulsory schooling does little but teach young people to follow orders like cogs in an industrial machine.