A Different Kind of Teacher: Solving the Crisis of American Schooling

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  This book is a collection of essays by award winning teacher, John Taylor Gatto. Having taught for 30 years, and won NYC Teacher of the Year and NY State Teacher of the Year, he quit and now spends his time advocating and arguing for a different kind of schooling. This book like his others exposes the myths that surroung schooling and that are accepted as truth, unquestioned and unexamined. Gatto questions and examines, and draws upon his experience to lay bare the truth about factory schooli... (show more)

  This book is a collection of essays by award winning teacher, John Taylor Gatto. Having taught for 30 years, and won NYC Teacher of the Year and NY State Teacher of the Year, he quit and now spends his time advocating and arguing for a different kind of schooling. This book like his others exposes the myths that surroung schooling and that are accepted as truth, unquestioned and unexamined. Gatto questions and examines, and draws upon his experience to lay bare the truth about factory schooling.
  Gatto charts the history of schools, how they were originally designed by the Prussian ruling class to foster obedience and compliance amongst the peasants and how this system was coopted by industrialists in the US to enforce thier brand of monopoly capitalism, and stifle any possible dissent by reducing people's capacity to think creatively and imaginatively.
  A different kind of teacer sponsors creativity by creating opportunities for children to be with thier families and pursue their passions. Gatto shares how he produced outstanding results. He never tested his charges and worked in some of the poorest districts of New York City.
  This book is inspirational, and his arguments faultless. Although he does not refer to evolutionary history, or attachment, or neurology, his arguments against school, and how children actually do learn, are consistent with those philosophies.
  Pure genius. (show less)

   

   

  by Facebook User on Feb 27, 2009 at 08:56PM

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  Gatto is angry enough, passionate enough and honest enough to make the huge effort he has made to excise the unbearable truth of Compulsory State Education.... this collection of essays shares his insights, outlines some solutions and possibilities, and is essential reading for anyone who is involved in 'teaching'....

   

  by Core Luminous on Sep 21, 2009 at 03:45PM

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