Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling faraz khan David Kerr

David Kerr

skillfully produced by White Thread Press

analysing it in terms familiar to the reader

a rich man

continues his masterful work on the great Dominican theologian and brings an immense learning to bear on a subject that most readers have not considered very carefully: Thomas's spirituality

Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling faraz khan David KerrAfter over 100 years of mandatory schooling in the U. S., literacy rates have dropped, families are fragmented, learning disabilities are skyrocketing, and children and youth are increasingly disaffected. Thirty years of teaching in the public school system led John Taylor Gatto to the sad conclusion that compulsory governmental schooling is to blame, accomplishing little but to teach young people to follow orders like cogs in an industrial machine.