The New Dumbness Bred by Compulsory Schooling [1]

Video - Part four in a series of short videos based on John Taylor Gatto [2]‘s book, The Underground History of American Education [3]. This excerpt is from The Prologue, Section Six: “The New Dumbness”(p.16-18)

John Taylor Gatto (born December 15, 1935) is a retired American school teacher with nearly 30 years experience in the classroom, and author of several books on education. He is an activist critical of compulsory schooling [4], of the perceived divide between th...