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	John Taylor Gatto, Roland Legiardi-Laura
		"Unlikely Guerrilla: John Gatto of Monongahela is working overtime to subvert America's system of open schooling," by Bill Steigerwald, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
		Roland Legiardi-Laura New York Times feature "Poetry in Motion in the East Village," By Marc Kristal 7/27/2000
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	www.johntaylorgatto.com /aboutus (100 words)

	John Taylor Gatto
		JTG: I put together what I call a "guerrilla" curriculum Jerry, and that was composed of stuffing them with primary experiences, as much as I could, from an ad-hoc basis, when I would read the paper in the morning or the night before.
		JTG: The idea very, very early on, it comes out of Prussian Germany, in a series of debates in the 19th debates that arose out of Prussia, that essentially said a mathematical, or mathematized predictable world is the best out of all possible things to hope for.
		JTG: The schema, first, has to be seen clearly: as long as the economy is built up of very large corporations, very large institutions, and very large government agencies, by necessity all the training that is approved leads towards some position on the pecking order of these giant employment pyramids.
	www.wtp.org /archive/transcripts/john_taylor_gatto.html (5122 words)

	John Taylor Gatto
		A former New York teacher of the year, Gatto is the most interesting writer on education today.
		Gatto argues that the crisis of our schools is just one part of the larger crisis of our society.
		Education and the Western Spiritual Tradition: An address by John Taylor Gatto at the "Spirituality In Education" conference, sponsored by the Naropa Institute, focusing on The Congregational Principle and Original Sin.
	www.preservenet.com /theory/Gatto.html (301 words)

	PhilipDru.com
		JTG: I must say this, Philip: that when I hear the term ‘social Darwinism’ – and I don’t mean you’re involved in the indictment I’m about to make – I know that I’m in the presence of a whitewash created by a number of powerful academic voices who wish to leave Darwin off the hook.
		JTG: Well, can you see the beauty, that suddenly millions and millions of people who would scratch their head and say, No, it can’t be true, I must be dreaming things – there wouldn’t be any way to avoid it, unfortunately.
		Gatto, since you went ahead and brought up the Skull and Bones, I think I should just go ahead and mention that, from what I know of Skull and Bones, they were founded in the early 1830s at Yale University on Hegelian principles of the end of history as, again, Prussian militarism.
	www.philipdru.com /gatto_transcript.html (6103 words)

	TV-Turnoff Network/
		E-Mail Us John Taylor Gatto was born in Monongahela, Pennsylvania, a river town thirty-five miles southeast of Pittsburgh where his grandfather, Harry Taylor Zimmer, was the town printer in the days when printers still honored their descent from Peter Zenger.
		Gatto worked as a scriptwriter in the film business, was an advertising writer, a taxi driver, a jewelry designer, an ASCAP songwriter, and a hotdog vendor before becoming a schoolteacher.
		Gatto's office is in New York City, his home in Oxford, New York, where he is currently at work on a documentary film about the nature of modern schooling entitled The Fourth Purpose, with his friend and former student, Roland Legiardi-Laura.
	www.tvturnoff.org /speakersJohnTaylorGatto.htm (421 words)

	John Taylor Gatto - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Taylor Gatto is an American retired school teacher of 30 years and author of several books on education.
		He is an activist critical of compulsory schooling and the hegemonic nature of discourse on education and the education professions.
		Gatto was born in the Pittsburgh area steel town of Monongahela, Pennsylvania.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Taylor_Gatto (434 words)

	'I'm a Saboteur.'
		John Taylor Gatto, an award-winning teacher, now aims to overthrow the public-school establishment for which he worked for 30 years.
		Gatto was the kind of once-in-a-lifetime teacher who changed lives (hundreds of former students remain in touch with him), even as he outraged administrators.
		John Taylor Gatto's most famous essay may well be "The Seven-Lesson School Teacher" (New Society Publishers, 1992).
	www.fastcompany.com /online/40/wf_gatto.html (3190 words)

	John Taylor Gatto: The Most Famous Teacher in the World
		John: What I think happened was a series of events which occurred when I was substitute teaching, where I seemed to run into a densely compacted mass of perversion on the part of nominal authorities.
		John: People who believe that organized schooling can be about anything else than serving the existing economy are out of their minds.
		Bootie Zimmer's Choice: Gatto uses the way he learned to read from his mother, Bootie Zimmer, as an example of the independent learning that is crushed by compulsory schooling.
	netmar.com /~maat/archive/may1/gatto.htm (3573 words)

	John Taylor Gatto - A to Z Home's Cool Homeschooling - 5/28/00
		Here is a John Taylor Gatto website primarily focused on his book: Underground History of American Education.
		John Taylor Gatto warned that although there were many caring teachers who worked hard in the system, the institution itself was "psychopathic and without conscience," and would always overwhelm their individual contributions.
		John Taylor Gatto analyzes the roots of the modern American education system, detailing how it was designed to foster economic interests and facilitate management of the labor force.
	homeschooling.gomilpitas.com /articles/052800.htm (1031 words)

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		Gatto: People who are well-schooled in government schools have a low threshold of boredom.
		If schools aren't going to do this (Gatto thinks schools can't be fixed), then the responsibility for our children's education (not to mention our culture's sustainability over the long haul) rests with today's parents, teaching their kids themselves.
		Which sounds imposing, but the good news is that every homeschooling text I've read concludes the same essential thing: all that is required of parents is dedication and enthusiasm.
	www.matthewdallman.com /2006/10/john-taylor-gatto.html (333 words)

	Education Reform Books
		Gatto is not bad teachers, bad administrators, nor even bad parents.
		Gatto argues that there is no one way to teach, that schooling should be what the parents, community and even the children want it to be, an experiment not codified by the state.
		Though not a proponent of vouchers, Gatto believes that a portion of school taxes should be given back to parents so they could shop around for better options than public education has to offer.
	www.educationreformbooks.net (762 words)

	Natural Life Magazine #40 - What Really Matters by John Taylor Gatto
		New York State Teacher of the Year John Gatto is the author of the best-selling “Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling”;.
		If what I've said is even partly true, you'll have to join me in sabotaging the global economy and sabotaging the government schools, because schools and government and machinery-makers lie to you about what matters every time.
		John Taylor Gatto is a former New York State Teacher of the Year and now a strong promoter of home-based learning.
	www.life.ca /nl/40/gatto.html (2722 words)

	John Taylor Gatto (Site not responding. Last check: )
		John Taylor Gatto was voted New York State teacher of the year in 1991.
		The trouble was that the unlikeliest kids kept demonstrating to me at random moments so many of the hallmarks of human excellence--insight, wisdom, justice, resourcefulness, courage, originality--that I became confused.
		In simpler terms, I tried to manuever them into positions where they would have a chance to be their own teachers and to make themselves the major text of their own education.
	www.haven.net /edge/council/gatto.htm (375 words)

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		John Taylor Gatto is one of today's most interesting writers on education.
		As a former New York City and New York State Teacher of the Year, John Taylor Gatto has an "inside the trenches" perspective on education and his criticisms cannot be easily written off.
		John Taylor Gatto is a former New York City and New York State Teacher of the year.
	www.fun-books.com /authors/john_taylor_gatto.htm (860 words)

	Against School, by John Taylor Gatto
		John Taylor Gatto is a former New York State and New York City Teacher of the
		Men like George Peabody, who funded the cause of mandatory schooling throughout the South, surely understood that the Prussian system was useful in creating not only a harmless electorate and a servile labor force but also a virtual herd of mindless consumers.
		We don't need Karl Marx's conception of a grand warfare between the classes to see that it is in the interest of complex management, economic or political, to dumb people down, to demoralize them, to divide them from one another, and to discard them if they don't conform.
	www.spinninglobe.net /againstschool.htm (3192 words)

	[Livingontheland] John Taylor Gatto essay
		Bootie Zimmer's Choice John Taylor Gatto http://www.familycenteredlearning.com/bootie.htm ----------------------------------------------------------------------------= ---- The government began to compel us all to send our children to school in= 1852 in the state of Massachusetts, and from that state the compulsion= spread south, west, and north.
		A transplanted Englishman,= John Bristed, wrote in 1818 that the mass of Americans excelled every= other people in the world in shrewdness of intellect, general= intelligence, versatility and readiness to experiment with untried things.= William Cobbett on his return to America in 1817 observed that every= farmer was a reader, unlike the European peasant.
		Gatto," she= said, "your son reads, I would guess, on the 6th Grade level.
	lists.ibiblio.org /pipermail/livingontheland/2002-December/000022.html (5898 words)

	Neal's Workshop - Post details: John Taylor Gatto
		John Taylor Gatto taught English in New York City schools for 30 years.
		Gatto's proposal seems simple to me: tear the sacred notion of schooling to pieces.
		Aided by Gatto's insights, I think the reason we find ourselves so handicapped is because we were programmed by this busted employee-training ground of a school system.
	www.autodogmatic.com /index.php/a/2006/11/29/john_taylor_gatto (1412 words)

	John Taylor Gatto on "look-say"
		Here is how John Taylor Gatto characterizes look-say (and I know, Patrick, you are indignant at hearing Waldorf reading instruction associated with look-say, but there are unquestionably elements of this, in your descriptions of how everyone copies a verse off the board, looks at it a lot, copies and tries to remember it):
		And Gatto is not a critic of Waldorf, I think I've heard he's a proponent of Waldorf lately.
		What I do maintain is that this contradiction, between the ideal in which reading and writing are really only wholly appropriate after age 14, and the need for practical reasons to at least begin teaching reading and writing much earlier than this, explains much of the tension and ambivalence about reading instruction in Waldorf.
	uncletaz.com /at/aprmay04/johntaylor.html (1833 words)

	John Taylor Gatto - Challenging the Myths of Modern Schooling
		Listen to John Gatto on the Paradox of Extended Childhood
		John Taylor Gatto, film director Roland Legiardi-Laura, and The Odysseus Group welcome you to our Web site, which will offer you a new way to look at institutional schooling.
		Perhaps the greatest of school's illusions is that the institution was launched by a group of kindly men and women who wanted to help the children of ordinary families—to level the playing field, so to speak.
	www.johntaylorgatto.com (162 words)

	Shocking Origins of Public Education - Gatto
		John Taylor Gatto documents the shocking origins of public education
		They found that to a considerable extent it could, and it is still being done today as evidenced in the Congressional Record during the Clinton administration.
		If you ever read a biography about John Dewey- they will be very circumspect about the two years he went to live in China, in the 1920's.
	4brevard.com /choice/Public_Education.htm (6989 words)

	The Six-Lesson Schoolteacher, by John Taylor Gatto
		In his lectures and his writing Gatto not only adeptly denounces the public schools, but also makes radical suggestions for improving them.
		These suggestions are grounded not in hypothetical clouds but rather on his own innovative methods of teaching which involve community service projects, independent study, apprenticeships, and solitude.
		More of Gatto's writing can be found in a new collection of his essays entitled "Dumbing Us Down" (New Society Publishers, 1992) [excerpted in WER issue #81].
	www.cantrip.org /gatto.html (2987 words)

	John Taylor Gatto Coming to Los Angeles
		Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) August 17, 2006 -- John Taylor Gatto, the renowned New York Teacher of the Year, will be a keynote speaker at the Entrepreneur Days to be held the Atrium Hotel at Orange County Airport in Irvine, California, on the weekend of August 24-26, 2006.
		While keynoting at this unique business conference for teens and parents, John Taylor Gatto will be discussing how to train children to become self sufficient entrepreneurs.
		Along with John Taylor Gatto, Bob Circosta, former Home Shopping Network's Vice President of Sales and Vice President of Sales Training and Development will offer a workshop on Creating Offline Products for parents and teens.
	www.prweb.com /releases/2006/8/prweb425438.htm (427 words)

	ScottHortonShow » September 6, 2003 - John Taylor Gatto (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Philip Dru interviews John Taylor Gatto about the deliberate plan to use compulsory school to create "manageable people." Mr.
		Gatto is a former Teacher of the Year in New York City, and is the author of "Against School," the cover article in Harper's Magazine for September 2003.
		He is also the author of the books Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling, The Exhausted School, A Different Kind of Teacher, and The Underground History of American Education (read it free here).
	www.scotthortonshow.com /2003/09/06/september-6-2003-john-taylor-gatto (149 words)

	John Taylor Gatto
		Have you ever wondered how our form of compulsory education got setup in the way it is? John Taylor Gatto has.
		It was resisted - sometimes with guns - by an estimated eighty per cent of the Massachusetts population, the last outpost in Barnstable on Cape Cod not surrendering its children until the 1880's when the area was seized by militia and children marched to school under guard."
		From: An Interview with John Taylor Gatto on the Origins of Compulsory Education, in Flatland Magazine #11 © Jim Martin, 9/94.
	www.noogenesis.com /game_theory/Gatto/Gatto.html (1193 words)

	The Seven-Lesson Schoolteacher - John Taylor Gatto (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The following is a brilliant essay by John Taylor Gatto entitled, "The Seven Lesson Schoolteacher" -- one of several such essays found in Gatto's book, "Dumbing Us Down."
		by John Taylor Gatto - 1991 New York State Teacher of the Year
		John Taylor Gatto's official web site is: www.johntaylorgatto.com
	hometown.aol.com /tma68/7lesson.htm (4578 words)

	Books: The Difference Between Library and School Editions - Homefires.com
		Gatto is a former New York State Teacher of the Year and author of Dumbing Us Down - The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling.
		Gatto's generosity with permission to reprint his work is legendary.
		However, he has specifically requested that Homefires inform readers that this particular piece is copyrighted and is not to be further reproduced.
	www.homefires.com /articles/thoughts_on_education.asp (1119 words)

	☯Allan Haggett » Blog Archive » Against School - John Taylor Gatto (Site not responding. Last check: )
		click here to read a variant on John’s views which might just offer a positive proposal for an educational alternative to high schools as currently organized.
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