For anyone interested in the bad things of public education, ideas on what kind of education is actually helpful, and the history of education over the centuries and why it got instituted and what function it ACTUALLY has.
John Taylor Gatto
* The Guerrilla Curriculum (1)
* Compiled Thoughts On Schooling (1)
* Compiled Thoughts On Schooling (2)
http://www.altruists.org/downloads/b...ers/education/
(podcasts)
John Taylor Gatto (born John Gatto) is an American retired school teacher of 29 years 8 months and author of several books on education. He is an activist critical of compulsory schooling and the hegemonic nature of discourse on education and the education professions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Taylor_Gatto
He climaxed his teaching career as New York State Teacher of the Year after being named New York City Teacher of the Year on three occasions. He quit teaching on the OP ED page of the Wall Street Journal in 1991 while still New York State Teacher of the Year, claiming that he was no longer willing to hurt children. Later that year he was the subject of a show at Carnegie Hall called "An Evening With John Taylor Gatto," which launched a career of public speaking in the area of school reform, which has taken Gatto over a million and a half miles in all fifty states and seven foreign countries. In 1992, he was named Secretary of Education in the Libertarian Party Shadow Cabinet, and he has been included in Who's Who in America from 1996 on. In 1997, he was given the Alexis de Tocqueville Award for his contributions to the cause of liberty, and was named to the Board of Advisors of the National TV-Turnoff Week.
His books include: Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling (1992); The Exhausted School (1993); A Different Kind of Teacher (2000); and The Underground History Of American Education (2001)
http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/aboutus/john.htm