How, then, does my life where both husband and wife work but kiddo spends all day with grandma and grandpa fit into that equation? Really? Every single one of your students? How do you know that? He also said that double-income families are ruining our children, along with the lack of inter-generational interaction.
ALL his students watch too much TV and it's ruining them.
It also bothered me that he made such generalized, sensational statements. And there are as many different school environments are there are different schools in the country. Those are two completely different worlds. I have a hard time believing that a New York City educator understands ANYTHING about the kind of education I had - in rural Montana, where we had one school district for our entire town (and the ranch and reservation kids were bused in) and I graduated with 83 people. I also have a problem with someone who spent his whole career in New York school systems making broad sweeping statements about public education in general.
(Like maybe we're not bright enough to follow along with typical 12 point print?) And I had to laugh when I opened the book and the print was freaking 18 point. First of all, it's not so much a book as a group of essays. Now, in an ever-more-rapidly changing world with an explosion of alternative routes to learning, it's poised to continue to shake the world of institutional education for many more years.įeaturing a new foreword from Zachary Slayback, an Ivy League dropout and cofounder of tech start-up career foundry Praxis, this 25th anniversary edition will inspire new generations of parents and students to take control of learning and kickstart an empowered society of self-directed lifetime-learners.This book gets a big "meh" from me. Gatto's radical treatise on public education, a New Society Publishers bestseller for 25 years, continues to bang the drum for an unshackling of children and learning from formal schooling. He became a fierce advocate of families and young people taking back education and learning, arguing that "genius is as common as dirt," but that conventional schooling is driving out the natural curiosity and problem-solving skills we're born with, replacing it with rule-following, fragmented time, and disillusionment. 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. Throw off the shackles of formal schooling and embark upon a rich journey of self-directed, life-long learningĪfter 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.
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