Episode 55: Dumbing Us Down - Part 1
It’s time for our monthly Coop Book Club! This book by John Taylor Gatto, Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling is packed with so many provocative discussion points, that we had to dedicate an entire episode to just the book’s preface!
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“I’ve come to believe that genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us.” We discuss this quote from the preface and share our thoughts on quotes like these for a lively conversation about this hidden curriculum of traditional school.
For more discussion about the preface, check out this week’s blog post Bells of Confinement.
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