@fromthestates 💜🥹📚 My book club will be reading Dumbing Us Down by John Taylor Gatto this month. While I haven’t started reading it yet, I know the main ideas behind the book. Gatto, a 30-year veteran teacher discusses how and why public schools teach indifference, emotional reliance, intellectual dependence, provisional self-esteem, and acceptance of a privacy-free existence among other things. It is almost as if this study done by NASA goes hand and hand with Gatto’s observations and conclu

From Dumbing Us Down by multiple-time NY State Teacher of the Year John Taylor Gatto - if you thought public school was designed for education, think again. There are good teachers trying to educate but there’s reasons why they face such opposition and difficulty: the system is built to do the opposite. | The Permaculture Student