| 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. |
| About the
Contributor(s) |
| John Taylor Gatto taught 30
years in public schools before resigning from schoolteaching on the
op-ed pages of the Wall Street Journal during the year he was named
New York State's official "Teacher of the Year." Since then he has
traveled three million miles lecturing on school
reform. |