About the author: John Gatto was a teacher in New York City's public schools for over 30 years and is a recipient of the New York State Teacher of the Year award. At one point I had attempted teaching in the high school system but it is poisoned. You will learn how the mandatory education you received might be the cause of society’s inability to concentrate and incessant need to be entertained. We'll send you an email as soon as it is available! Definitely a food for thought listen, and not just for those disenchanted with the traditional schooling experience. Scott Sampson, Narrated by: Made me want to homeschool my kids actually. By: "Am I robbing my kids of something by not sending them to 'regular school'?" Many homeschool parents have a long-term relationship with self-doubt. Turned my career around. has successfully been added to your shopping cart. I don't agree with everything the others states but the core ideas and the over arching truth that this current system is not the way was clearly presented and better defined than any other resource I have found. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. This is my second of his books and it simply is one of the easiest books to listen to. Please try again. By: Unlimited listening on select audiobooks, Audible Originals, and podcasts. Julie Bogart, By John Taylor Gatto Read by Michael Puttonen. This book is a collection of essays that were written by a highly decorated teacher discussing the ways he was ashamed to a pert of the American schooling process- I keep remembering him talking about how he would grant permission for a child to use the bathroom knowing they did not have to go- that they just wanted water to move around but he would consider this a kind of favor to be repaid, He mostly talks about how the current system kills the natural curiosity of children and ensures that they will despise learning and intellectual topics. Listen Free to Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Public Schooling audiobook by John Taylor Gatto with a 30 Day Free Trial! Those who have made the decision to homeschool their children have done so out of great love for them and a desire to provide them an excellent education in the context of a warm, enriching home. what we all thought about our school-experience but were afraid to say outloud. You kind of get the sense that this teacher is very disheartened by the school system; he knows he has no control in his job and it's only getting worse, yet he continues because he knows the kids need him and he certainly does his best. A much-sought after speaker on education throughout North America, his other books include Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher’s Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling, (audio, Post Hypnotic Press 2012, print, New Society Press, 2009), A Different Kind of Teacher (Berkeley Hills Books, 2001), and The Underground History of American Education (Oxford Village Press, 2000). The answer, says Greta Eskridge, is to break free from regular routines and familiar comforts of home to experience new places and adventures - even if those adventures go awry. By: John Taylor Gatto (Author), Michael Puttonen (Narrator), Post Hypnotic Press, Inc. (Publisher) & 0 more. Tens of millions of Americans owe a combined $1.5 trillion in debt for student loans. Nunc hendrerit tortor vitae est placerat ut varius erat posuere. It is your own responsibility to adhere to these terms. Sometimes the torrent health info isn’t accurate, so you can download the file and check it out or try the following downloads. Tell readers what you thought by rating and reviewing this book. For some kids, school offers a positive and engaging experience. Julie Bogart, Launch Your Career Without Debt, Distractions, or a Degree, By: A highly praised best-seller for over a decade, this is a radical treatise on public education that concludes that compulsory government schooling does little but teach young people to follow orders like cogs in a machine. Top subscription boxes – right to your door, © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. About the author: John Gatto was a teacher in New York City's public schools for over 30 years and is a recipient of the New York State Teacher of the Year award. 29 new eBooks and audiobooks coming out Octobe... What Scarborough novelist Catherine Hernandez ... 30 new eBooks and audiobooks coming out Octobe... 22 books to get you out of your reading rut. Weapons of Mass Instruction adds another chilling metaphor to the brief against conventional schooling. Connor Boyack, With over 100,000 copies in print since its original publication in 2002, this book is collection of essays and speeches and contains a description of the wide-spread impact of the book and Gatto's "guerrilla teaching". John Holt, Narrated by: Instead I found it unsettling. We are currently reviewing your submission. John Taylor Gatto's Ben Hewitt. Much of this staggering expense has been unnecessary. To uploaders: You may not use this site to distribute any material when you do not have the legal rights to do so. Disclaimer: None of the files shown here are actually hosted or transmitted by this server. Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling, How Children Learn, 50th Anniversary Edition, Unschooled: Raising Curious, Well-Educated Children Outside the Conventional Classroom, The 5-Hour School Week: An Inspirational Guide to Leaving the Classroom to Embrace Learning in a Way You Never Imagined, Reviewed in the United States on September 23, 2018. Jessie Wise, Narrated by: Thirty years in New York City's public schools led John Gatto to the sad conclu We appreciate your feedback. Matthew Kugler, By: In Free to Learn, developmental psychologist Peter Gray argues that our children, if free to pursue their own interests through play, will not only learn all they need to know but will do so with energy and passion. It is just there to fill your children's heads with propaganda, and to train them as obedient, order-following drones with little critical thinking abilities. By: Dumbing Us Down AudioBook Summary. For those wondering the only semi solution given is home school and there really is not a lot of advice in there for people who want to start homeschooling. For others, it's a boring, stressful, and frustrating waste of time. What a lovely man. Reviewed in the United States on June 29, 2017. Sold and delivered by Audible, an Amazon company. By: While it is often based on a recording of commercially available printed material, this is not always the case. There is still safety in Mathematics and the physical sciences if you can make it to upper division classes. By: try any audiobook Free! A much sought after speaker on education throughout North America, his other books include Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher’s Journey through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling, A Different Kind of Teacher, and The Underground History of American Education. Susan Wise Bauer, There are some good movies that follow this theme-- The War on Kids, The Cartel -and- Waiting for Superman. What a great challenge to conventional wisdom/school learning, and really forces the reader to think outside the box. Reviewed in the United States on December 21, 2017. Author Julie Bogart distills decades of experience - homeschooling her five now grown children, developing curricula, and training homeschooling families around the world - to teach parents how to make education an exciting, even enchanting, experience for their kids, whether they're in elementary or high school. This radical treatise on public education has been a bestseller in print for ten years. There was a problem loading your book clubs. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 7, 2020. Fusce sed nibh eu odio posuere semper. Duis ut nisl in mi eleifend faucibus egestas aliquet arcu. By confirming your purchase, you agree to Audible's, The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling. “School is a twelve-year jail sentence where bad habits are the only curriculum truly learned, Reviewed in the United States on May 13, 2018. Blake Boles, Narrated by: Peter Gray. Read it and see! Cancel online anytime. Even more important are the long-term benefits linked to cognitive, emotional, and moral development. $14.95 a month after 30 day trial. Inspired by the spirit of Henry David Thoreau - "All good things are wild and free" - mother of five Ainsley Arment founded Wild + Free. Listen to Dumbing Us Down by John Taylor Gatto,Michael Puttonen with a free trial.\nListen to unlimited* audiobooks on the web, iPad, iPhone and Android.