John Taylor Gatto Video Showcase
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The Man
John Taylor Gatto (born December 15, 1935) is an American retired school teacher of 29 years and 8 months experience in the classroom and author of several books on education.
He is an activist critical of compulsory schooling, of the perceived divide between the teen years and adulthood, and of what he characterizes as the hegemonic nature of discourse on education and the education professions. (from wikipedia)
One of my favorite authors on educational philosophy is John Taylor Gatto. This lens is an introduction to the ideas that he has written and spoken about.
"This is a time of great school crisis and that crisis is interlinked with a greater social crisis in the general community. We seem to have lost our identity. Children and old people are penned up and locked away from the business of the world to a degree without precedent - nobody talks to them anymore and without children and old people mixing in daily life a community has no future and no past, only a continuous present."
The Message
- Everything We Think About Schooling Is Wrong!
- an interview with Gatto
- Institutional Schooling Must Be Destroyed
- Some more proof that schools are not places of learning.
- Why Schools Don't Educate - The Natural Child Project
- Acceptance Speech
- John Taylor Gatto - Challenging the Myths of Modern Schooling
- John's own website
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Is He Right?
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peetred
May 12, 2011 @ 7:16 pm | delete
- Very cool lens, I loved all of Gatto's great stuff all in one place!
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Yourshowman
Dec 19, 2010 @ 6:29 am | delete
- Nice videos I Liked it.
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