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The Underground History of American Education
The Underground History of American Education
Author: John Taylor Gatto
"I don't mean to be inflammatory, but it's as if government schooling has made people dumber, not brighter, made families weaker, not stronger...has ruined formal religion with its hard-sell exclusion of God, has set the class structure in stone by dividing children into classes and setting them against one another, and has been midwife to an al...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780945700043
ISBN-10: 0945700040
Publication Date: 2000
Pages: 412
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Publisher: Oxford Village Press
Book Type: Paperback
Members Wishing: 33
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reviewed The Underground History of American Education on + 15 more book reviews
This book is written like a series of essays that are not very coherently organized. It was written for a publishing co that got cold feet, so it looks like a self-published pre-edited version of a massive work on the history and current state of public school. It is full of fascinating facts, well-researched and referenced. But it doesn't read very well.

This book is available for free on J T Gatto's website. http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/
yarnovermama avatar reviewed The Underground History of American Education on + 3 more book reviews
This book could use some editing. It seems to go all over the place without completing a full thought. Having said that, it is FULL of references to back up the author's assertions and is very fascinating reading for anyone interested in the history of public schooling.


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