Review: Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Education
用戶評語 - Kierstin - GoodreadsWow I just wrote a thoughtful and brilliant review of this book and then pushed the wrong button and lost. I will try to recap my brilliance. I just sat down and read this book this afternoon while ... 閱讀評論全文
Review: Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Education
用戶評語 - Jennifer - GoodreadsJohn Gatto delivers a scathing indictment of the American educational system in a collection of essays and speeches he has written and made over the years. It was extremely interesting, and while I ... 閱讀評論全文
Review: Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Education
用戶評語 - Charlie Oliver - GoodreadsThis book was recommended to me at a conference and wow...what a crazy thing to recommend at a conference. The author is a conservative homeschooling buff who waters down any significant points he ... 閱讀評論全文
Review: Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Education
用戶評語 - Afton - GoodreadsThis book was inspiring and rebellious! Rebellious to lovers of government-monopolized schooling, but not rebellious to those who agree that a national curriculum and standardized testing is ... 閱讀評論全文
Review: Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Education
用戶評語 - Janette - GoodreadsVery forceful read. Includes a brief history of how compulsory public school came into existence. Favorite bit: "Turn your back on all national solutions and toward communities of families as ... 閱讀評論全文
Review: Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Education
用戶評語 - Anna - GoodreadsTaken with a grain of salt, this book is okay. I sort of got the impression that the author was venting anger at some past disputes he may have had within the school system.... or something along ... 閱讀評論全文
Review: Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Education
用戶評語 - Tracie Renee - GoodreadsThis was terrible. It came across as crazy ramblings with strong generalizations that were unsupported by real evidence, lines of thought that didn't make sense, ridiculous exaggerations, and the ... 閱讀評論全文
Review: Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Education
用戶評語 - Lisa - GoodreadsI agreed with many things in this book, especially childrens creativity being stifled. I am myself homeschooling my middle child, along with homeschooling my youngest as of next year. However, It is ... 閱讀評論全文
Review: Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Education
用戶評語 - Angela Buckland - GoodreadsIn a nut-shell, it's a good book. Good as far as it's spot-on descriptions of public-school-as-factory model. Mr. Gatto is obviously a smart man, albeit a little odd. Some of his ramblings were a ... 閱讀評論全文
Review: Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Education
用戶評語 - shrsv - GoodreadsMr. Gatto describes teaching as follows: In theoretical, metaphorical terms, the idea I began to explore was this one: that teaching is nothing like the art of painting, where, by the addition of ... 閱讀評論全文
