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Restoring Education, Healing Children, Creating Citizens

Featuring John Taylor Gatto
11/06/2006

Position(s) nominated for:
Education

Synopsis:
Education Secretary nominee John Taylor Gatto is a passionate advocate for education reform. A schoolteacher for thirty years, and a multi-year recipient of New York State and New York City Teacher of the Year Awards, His celebrated books include Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling, The Exhausted School, A Different Kind of Teacher, and The Underground History of American Education.

John Taylor Gatto describes our public school structure as a "catastrophe." He reminds us that public schooling in this country was "deliberately designed to produce mediocre intellects, to hamstring the inner life, to deny students appreciable leadership skills, and to ensure docile and incomplete citizens in order to render the populace 'manageable.' "

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