Dumbing Us Down

John Taylor Gatto

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First G7 summit at Rambouillet pp. 12-18
Gatto’s first book was originally published in 1975, a Monarch Notes guide to Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
The Washington Consensus is named pp. 33-40
This speech was given on the occasion of the author being named “New York State Teacher of the Year” for 1991.
The Year of Africa pp. 55-61
This speech was given by the author on 31 January 1990 in accepting an award from the New York State Senate naming him New York City Teacher…
Massachusetts passes the first compulsory attendance law pp. 55-61
Our form of compulsory schooling is an invention of the State of Massachusetts around 1850. It was resisted — sometimes with guns — by an es…
CITES pp. 55-61
Senator Ted Kennedy’s office released a paper not too long ago claiming that prior to compulsory education the state literacy rate was ninet…
Lombroso claims criminals are born, not made pp. 48-54
textbook from 1850 and you’ll see that the texts were pitched then on what would today be considered college level.
Revolutions of 1848 pp. 48-54
the two “Red Scares” of 1848 and 1919, when powerful interests feared a revolution among our own industrial poor.
Founding of the Cape Colony pp. 69-76
that has been the central function of schools since John Cotton announced it as the purpose of the Bay Colony schools in 1650 and Horace Man…
The Carbonari pp. 69-76
that has been the central function of schools since John Cotton announced it as the purpose of the Bay Colony schools in 1650 and Horace Man…
Civil Rights Act of 1964 pp. 69-76
In 1964, I was making a lot of money. That’s what I walked away from to become a teacher.
The Year of Africa pp. 77-84
Miss M. was selected as a Manhattan Teacher of the Year in 1985 and was nominated the following year for the Woman of Conscience Award given…
The telescope pp. 106-113
This new system began with the first Puritan church at Salem, organized in 1629 by the so-called “Salem Procedure.”
The Great Schism of the Russian Church pp. 106-113
Last fall I spoke in the town of Dedham at a church built in 1638, only nine years after the Arbella brought the Nonconformists to Boston.
The Lowell mills open in Massachusetts pp. 106-113
was the original and exclusive religion of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, from the Salem Procedure until 1834, over two hundred years of what…
The telephone pp. 106-113
It took thirty years to beat down a fierce oppo- sition, but by the 1880s it had come to pass — “they” had the children.
Positive confession, name it and claim it pp. 121-127
some disturbing evidence exists that the income of working couples in 1990 has only slightly more purchasing power than the income of the av…
1919-1930 Encephalitis lethargica epidemic pp. 128-134
In 1930, sixty long years ago, Thomas Briggs, delivering the Inglis Lecture at Harvard, charged that “the nation’s great
Treaty of Paris (1951) pp. 128-134
two decades later, in 1951, a survey made of 30,000 Los Angeles school children dis- covered that seventy-five percent of eighth graders cou…
The First Intifada pp. 128-134
When I won the first of my Teacher of the Year awards in 1990, I intended to do nothing at the ceremony except to thank the presenter and to…
Beslan school siege pp. 135-142
ON APRIL 7, 2004, the Mid-Hudson Highland Post carried an article about an appearance that John Gatto made at Highland High School.