Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

what we all thought about our school-experience but were afraid to say outloud. Tremendously moving.

To listen to this book and recognize denied thoughts about formal schooling is astonishing. In the age of the computer it is hard to imagine institutionalized compulsory schooling still exists.

Answers many questions of why we feel short changed and unfulfilled on completion of our academic sentence.

Would recommend to anyone who has stumbles upon it ( that's serendipity) and is half thinking of reading / listening.

I don't know why I took so long to purchase this title! Definitely a food for thought listen, and not just for those disenchanted with the traditional schooling experience. I came away challenged to change the way my children are being educated, and we home educate!

This is a very powerful treatise on the state of the American school system. It met my expectations based on the title. The author gives many convincing examples to support the "Dumbing Us Down". I thought back many times to my education and wished I could have a "do over". If you are considering homeschooling your child, this book will give you the push you need.

This book is a collection of essays that were written by a highly decorated teacher discussing the ways he was ashamed to a pert of the American schooling process- I keep remembering him talking about how he would grant permission for a child to use the bathroom knowing they did not have to go- that they just wanted water to move around but he would consider this a kind of favor to be repaid, He mostly talks about how the current system kills the natural curiosity of children and ensures that they will despise learning and intellectual topics. For those wondering the only semi solution given is home school and there really is not a lot of advice in there for people who want to start homeschooling

There are some good movies that follow this theme-- The War on Kids, The Cartel -and- Waiting for Superman.

The broken format of your kids' school

My professor suggested I read this as my interest in the flaws of education and the disconnect from the "real world" were so great that they brought me to question it. I don't agree with everything the others states but the core ideas and the over arching truth that this current system is not the way was clearly presented and better defined than any other resource I have found. Read it and see!

Loved it finish the book in two days could not put it down one of the most illuminating pieces of literature on education I have ever read.

Read this book and understand why modern public education does not work and can not be reformed. Written by an award winning public school teacher who offers real ideas for an alternative approach to how we raise children in the 21st Century.

But full solution still not clear. Free market is an easy concept to fall back unto, but, isn't this a main feature of our - as argued in this book - ailing society?