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John Taylor Gatto

Author of Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

Includes the names: John Gatto, John Taylor Gatto, John John Taylor; Taylor Gatto Gatto

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Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling 859 copies, 10 reviews
The Underground History of American Education: A School Teacher's… 265 copies, 5 reviews
Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey through the… 174 copies, 3 reviews
A Different Kind of Teacher: Solving the Crisis of American Schooling 143 copies, 2 reviews
The Exhausted School: Bending the Bars of Traditional Education 39 copies
Educating Your Child in Modern Times : Raising an Intelligent, Sovereign,… 7 copies
Ken Kesey's One flew over the cuckoo's nest (Monarch notes) 2 copies
The Major works of H.P. Lovecraft 2 copies
Verdummt noch mal ! - Dumbing Us Down: Der unsichtbare Lehrplan oder Was… 1 copy
What's Really Wrong With Our Schools? 1 copy
Challenging the Giant: The Best of SKOLE, the Journal of Alternative… 1 copy
CD Do You Really Need to Go to College? 1 copy
Beyond Schooling: building communities where learning really matters (IHYA… 1 copy
Against Schools and the Tyranny of Compulsory Schooling 1 copy

Keeping Appointments With Ourselves (Cassettes) 1 copy

Public School Nightmare: Why Fix a System Designed to Destroy Individual… 1 copy

Absolute Absolution (Cassette) 1 copy

A Schooling is Not an Education (Cassette) 1 copy

Re-Forming Public School Can it Be Done? (Cassette) 1 copy

Against School!!! 1 copy

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Everything You Know is Wrong (Contributor) 757 copies, 5 reviews

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