Evolving Ideas - 07/06/10
July 6, 2010
Gary Null

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John Taylor Gatto, educator, author: Dumbing Us Down, Weapons of Mass Instruction, Underground History of American Education offers a better understanding of how our education system is not preparing our children to be learned in a changing society that requires more than classroom attendance.

Perhaps the greatest of school's illusions is that the institution was launched by a group of kindly men and women who wanted to help the children of ordinary families--to level the playing field, so to speak.

"Unlikely Guerrilla: John Gatto of Monongahela is working overtime to subvert America's system of open schooling," by Bill Steigerwald, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

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