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Transform your child's education from institutional compliance to intellectual freedom. Former New York State Teacher of the Year John Taylor Gatto reveals how compulsory schooling creates dependent workers instead of independent thinkers, replacing natural curiosity with rule-following conformity. Over 30 years of classroom experience led to his revolutionary discovery: genius is as common as dirt, but conventional education systematically destroys it.

Why This Educational Awakening Matters Now:

After 100+ years of mandatory schooling, literacy rates have dropped, families are fragmented, and children are increasingly disaffected. This isn't failure - it's the system working exactly as designed to produce compliant workers rather than creative thinkers.

What You'll Discover:

The hidden curriculum that trains children for industrial compliance instead of critical thinking Step-by-step strategies for transitioning from school-based to self-directed learning
How to identify and nurture your child's natural learning style and interests Practical methods for creating engaging educational experiences without formal curriculum Real-world approaches to developing critical thinking, problem-solving, and life skills Community resources and support networks for families choosing educational alternatives

25 Years of Proven Impact:

This bestseller has guided over 100,000 families toward educational freedom, with children achieving remarkable academic and personal success through self-directed learning. Zachary Slayback, Ivy League dropout and tech entrepreneur, provides a powerful new foreword demonstrating how Gatto's principles create innovators and leaders.

Your child's natural love of learning can't wait for education reform. Start implementing these time-tested strategies immediately to unlock their intellectual potential and creativity. Join thousands of families discovering that education works best when it honors children's innate curiosity.

Tabla de contenidos provista por Syndetics

• Foreword(p. xiii)
• Preface-About the Author(p. xvii)
• 1 The Seven-Lesson Schoolteacher(p. 1)
• 2 The Psychopathic School(p. 19)
• 3 The Green Monongahela(p. 33)
• 4 We Need Less School, Not More(p. 45)
• 5 The Congregational Principle(p. 71)
• Extra Bonus Chapter: Against School(p. 93)
• Afterword(p. 107)
• Postscript 2005-From the Publisher(p. 115)
• Postscript 2017-From the Publisher(p. 119)
• Also available(p. 121)
• A Note about New Society Publishers(p. 122)

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

John Gatto was a schoolteacher for 30 years. He resigned in the Op-Ed pages of The New York Times upon receiving the New York State Teacher of the Year award. He has been a fierce advocate for self-directed "guerrilla" education for decades, and is also the author of Weapons of Mass Instruction and The Underground History of American Education .

Zachary Slayback is an entrepreneur, Ivy League dropout, and communicator, focusing on issues of education, innovation, and social change. He's the author of The End of School (2016) and a founding team member at Praxis, an apprenticeship program for young people looking for a real-world education.