From Dumbing Us Down by multiple-time NY State Teacher of the Year John Taylor Gatto - if you thought public school was designed for education, think again. There are good teachers trying to educate but there’s reasons why they face such opposition and difficulty: the system is built to do the opposite. | The Permaculture Student

@fromthestates 💜🥹📚 My book club will be reading Dumbing Us Down by John Taylor Gatto this month. While I haven’t started reading it yet, I know the main ideas behind the book. Gatto, a 30-year veteran teacher discusses how and why public schools teach indifference, emotional reliance, intellectual dependence, provisional self-esteem, and acceptance of a privacy-free existence among other things. It is almost as if this study done by NASA goes hand and hand with Gatto’s observations and conclu

In the early 1800s, Prussia (a former German state) developed a compulsory schooling model under figures like Johann Gottlieb Fichte. The system emphasized state-controlled education to produce loyal, obedient citizens and workers who could follow orders efficiently - key traits for military service and the emerging factory-based economy. This model influenced modern public education systems, particularly in Europe and the United States. Critics like John Taylor Gatto, an American educator and a