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He consults for medical schools and hospitals. Thomas Moore is an author, psychotherapist, musician and religious philosopher who lectures and writes in the areas of archetypal psychology, mythology, spiritual ecology and the arts. Gatto with adding the expression "dumbing us down" to the school debate worldwide. He taught for 30 years in public schools before resigning on the op-ed pages of the Wall Street Journal during the year he was named New York State's official "Teacher of the Year." On April 3, 2008, the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard credited Mr. Rather, he notes that finding meaning and purpose in one's life are more important.John Taylor Gatto is an internationally renowned speaker who lectures widely on school reform. He points out that this is a flawed line of thinking, a) because good education is not necessarily found in schools and if it were it does not actually = good job = good salary = good things and b) because things don't = happiness. Is the main role of school to prepare us for "economic success"? I don't know. Gatto also highlights the consumerist underpinnings presumed by the school system. Now, with more homework and scheduled activities, plus TV (and presumably the internet, these days) there is little time left for learning these lessons. Gatto argues that historically children would have time and space to develop in important ways outside of school, learning things like self-motivation, courage, self-reliance and so forth in the hours after school let out.

Surveillance: Schools afford no privacy for students there is nowhere to hide.

The expert chooses what to study and who has done a good job.

E motional & intellectual de pendency, provisional self-esteem: Stars, grades, prizes, honors, doing what you're told.

"The lesson of bells is that no work is worth finishing, so why care too deeply about anything?" When it's time to move to another class, you must stop caring/learning about xyx and now learn abc.

Indifference: Don't care too much about anything.

Class position: Students must stay in their assigned class, students are numbered.

Confusion: Teaching out of context, fragmentation, facts loosely or not at all connected to life or other pieces of information.

In the first chapter, Gatto details the deep lessons that are taught within the school system, referring to this later in the text as a kind of unspoken "national curriculum." I've summarized these lessons below:

John Taylor Gatto What's really taught in school?