Gatto, John Taylor
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Name (Latin)
Gatto, John Taylor
Date of birth
1935-12-15
Date of death
2018-10-25
Field of activity
Education
Teaching
Occupation
Teachers
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
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Sources of Information
- Dumbing us down, 2017:preface/about the author (New York City schoolteacher; grew up in Monongahela, Pennsylvania; lives in Manhattan)
- Dumbing us down, ©1992:t.p. (John Taylor Gatto) t.p. verso (John Gatto)
- Wikipedia, viewed April 29, 2019(born December 15, 1935 in Monongahela, Pennsylvania; died October 25, 2018 in New York City; American author and school teacher who taught in the classroom for nearly 30 years; named New York City Teacher of the Year in 1989, 1990, and 1991, and New York State Teacher of the Year in 1991)
- His Dumbing us down, c1992:t.p. (John Taylor Gatto) t.p. verso (John Gatto)
Wikipedia description:
John Taylor Gatto (December 15, 1935 – October 25, 2018) was an American author and school teacher. After teaching for nearly 30 years he authored several books on modern education, criticizing its ideology, history, and consequences. He is best known for his books Dumbing Us Down: the Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling, and The Underground History of American Education: A Schoolteacher’s Intimate Investigation Into the Problem of Modern Schooling which criticize the modern education system and promote the concept of unschooling and a return to homeschooling.
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