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__REVIEW - TRANSFORMATIVE TEACHING USING CRITICAL PEDAGOGY__
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**"Standards - Based Reform: Real Change or Political Smoke Screen"**
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 * John Taylor Gatto** (born December 15, 1935 __]__ ) is a retired __American__ school __teacher__ with nearly 30 years 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.

=John Taylor Gatto=

Do you teach, or do you teach school?
Posted Fri, 03/12/2010 - 22:16 by up-and-up The 7-Lesson Schoolteacher by John Taylor Gatto New Society Publishers, 1992 Call me Mr. Gatto, please. Twenty-six years ago, having nothing better to do at the time, I tried my hand at schoolteaching. The license I hold certifies that I am an instructor of English language and English literature, but that isn't what I do at all. I don't teach English, I teach school -- and I win awards doing it. Teaching means different things in different places, but seven lessons are universally taught Harlem to Hollywood Hills. They constitute a national curriculum you pay more for in more ways than you can imagine, so you might as well know what it is. You are at liberty, What does the school do with the children? Gatto states the following assertions in "Dumbing Us Down": It makes it clear to them that they cannot hide, because they are always supervised. [|[9]]
 * Main thesis**
 * 1) It makes the children confused. It presents an incoherent ensemble of information that the child needs to memorize to stay in school. Apart from the tests and trials that programming is similar to the television, it fills almost all the "free" time of children. One sees and hears something, only to forget it again.
 * 2) It teaches them to accept their class affiliation.
 * 3) It makes them indifferent.
 * 4) It makes them emotionally dependent.
 * 5) It makes them intellectually dependent.
 * 6) It teaches them a kind of self-confidence that requires constant confirmation by experts (provisional self-esteem).

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