The Underground History Of American Education: A Schoolteacher's Intimate Investigation Into The Problem Of Modern Schooling By John Taylor Gatto (Paperback)

~ Author's Special Pre-Publication Edition (Author)

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• Paperback: 412 pages
• Publisher: The Oxford Village Press, New York; Author's Special Pre-Publication Edition edition (2001)
• ASIN: B000MOKMFM
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,665,272 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars now this is real education, October 12, 2007

By	Jesse B. Simple - See all my reviews

while his other book, "Dumbing us Down" is a much quicker read, this is the book in which he really explains how it all came to be and how a few elite groups got their hands on the controls of the american public education system or really who started and for what purpose. read "Dumbing us Down" first and then read this book when you want to know more... a lot more. this is a lot to take in and really reads almost more like a text book, but is well worth the read. you may just find yourself thinking things you never thought before or thinking to yourself that you knew something like this must have been the case. either way Gatto puts together a wonderfully detailed and deep probing look at how this system of mass schooling and over all dumbing/creating a robotic population came to be.