TY - BOOK AU - Gatto,John Taylor TI - Dumbing us down: the hidden curriculum of compulsory schooling SN - 9780865718562 U1 - 370.973 23 PY - 2017///] CY - Gabriola Island, BC PB - New Society Publishers KW - Gatto, John Taylor. KW - Educators KW - United States KW - Biography KW - Education KW - Philosophy KW - Aims and objectives KW - Educational sociology KW - Education, Compulsory KW - Éducation KW - Finalités KW - États-Unis KW - Sociologie de l'éducation KW - Scolarité obligatoire KW - EDUCATION KW - Home Schooling KW - bisacsh KW - FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE KW - Public Policy KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE KW - Sociology KW - fast KW - Biographies KW - lcgft N1 - Originally published: 1992; The seven-lesson schoolteacher -- The psychopathic school -- The green monongahela -- We need less school, not more -- The congregational principle; Issued also in electronic formats N2 - "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."-- ER -