John Taylor Gatto book free online

[TWINCANS]

I don't remember if this link has been posted during earlier discussions of JTG and his insights about the Rockefeller-Foundations-controlled education system. If you appreciate John Taylor Gatto, the author of Dumbing Us Down, you'll appreciate this freebie read of his book: The Underground History of American Education.

http://johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/index.htm

[Jean-Luc]

Wish some would volunteer to turn this into a PDF for a offline fast reading on a tablet :)

[learninglight]

Hi :)

If you like John you'll enjoy this

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[Atlas]

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Dumbing Us Down by John Taylor Gatto - Download PDF (http://www.users.humboldt.edu/jwpowell/27806948-Dumbing-Us-Down-by-John-Taylor-Gatto.pdf) (145 pages)

[Constance]

A brilliant read. :heart:

[Atlas]

Forced/compulsory schooling is a Prussian Machine for the destruction of the imagination, and to fill ordinary minds with nonsense and contradictions so that they do not become destructive to the established economy with unpredictable genius. This idea even goes back to Plato that it is essential to a planned utopia to keep the masses confused. He makes some little known and humorous revelations about the true history of Darwin's work.

[...] Here is part one - then just right click on the video to go to Youtube and watch all ten parts.
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John Taylor Gatto, former teacher of the year 1990 New York on the same wave length, and he's really piszed a few people off by speaking out on the same subject. When will we learn?
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Source: http://projectavalon.net/forum/showthread.php?t=16384

[grapevine]

What's an Elite Education? - Famous Teacher Explains - John Taylor Gatto (1935-2018)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obFPLRuP41w&ab_channel=JohnTaylorGattoTV
It's been a long time since I watched a John Taylor Gatto video but felt this thread was well worth bumping. Unfortunately the links in earlier posts to JTG's own books "Weapons of Mass Instruction" and "Dumbing Us Down" no longer work, but you can read them online on the links below:

https://archive.org/details/WeaponsOfMassInstruction/page/n5/mode/2up
https://archive.org/details/DumbingUsDown-TheHiddenAgendaOfCompulsoryEducation

The books that JTG mentions in the above video are:

Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes - 99p on Amazon Kindle
The Gallic Wars by Julius Caesar - 49p on Amazon Kindle

Teachers of this calibre are few and far between. Sir Ken Robinson is another. Please feel free to add to this list

[Ewan]

Thanks for the bump, did not know there was a thread discussing this wonderful man.

Every time I get chatting to younger people by chance, and they mention they are going into teaching, I share the man's name and the title "Dumbing Us Down". :thumbsup: