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Hidden Curriculum Parenting RSS quote-openThe book that is the topic of this appraisal is John Taylor Gattos Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling. It is a collection of numerous essays and speeches printed by the author, who is an advocate of reforming the American educational system.Gattos essential premise is that our schools do precisely what they were intended to do, and they do it brilliantly. Unfortunately, though, schools have not been intended to educate anyone; on the contrary, they are intended to roil out gathering production citizens, greatly like an meeting line can gathering create cars that are almost equal in their over products. This procedure does not call for the teaching of students it just calls for their imprisonment in the train scheme for hours a day, along with a continuance of train in the form of training and television. In fact, Gatto also...quote-close