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Title: Dumbing us Down, the hidden curriculum of compulsory schooling
Author: By John Taylor Gatto
Publisher: New Society Publishers
Publication
date:
1992
ISBN: ISBN 0 86571 230 1
Description:

After twenty-six years teaching in Manhattan, where he won several awards, Gatto came to recognise the way conventional school structures stamp out self-knowledge, curiosity and concentration, and identified seven major faults in the hidden curriculum.

   

 

 

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