Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum Of Compulsory Schooling (Special Collector's Edition) by John Taylor Gatto (2005)Sample quote:
The license I have certifies that I am an instructor of English language and literature, but that isn’t what I do at all. I don’t teach English; I teach school. …
Teaching means different things in different places, but seven lessons are universally taught from Harlem to Hollywood Hills. They constitute a national curriculum. … These are the things I teach … ‘confusion,’ ‘class position,’ ‘indifference,’ ‘emotional dependency,’ ‘intellectual dependency,’ ‘provisional self-esteem,’ and ‘one can’t hide.’
