John Taylor Gatto book Dumbing Us Down
Source: Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling (1992), p. 24
“You’re not a nun, are you? You haven’t taken one of those absurd vows that cut you off from what otherwise might be a full and healthy human existence?”
“Where Desert Spirits Crowd the Night”, p. 267
The Ivory and the Horn (1996)
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