You’ve Been Lied To About Education: The Book That Will Change Your Life Today

What should matter is so obvious and we still believe the lie that “grades” are what matter, or awards or test scores.

Kids Don’t Learn What Matters

One book has left me speechless. Every time I read from it. A speechless soon met with an urgent compulsion to shout from the mountains. Every word.

It’s a book by John Taylor Gatto, former NY teacher of the year, and it’s not just about the devastation of schooling on America (the world?), but about humanity and what makes us strong and weak.

The Big Sham

And since I can’t quote the whole book here, or even address many of his profound points (every paragraph), there’s this one:

“Owning a home is the foremost American dream but few schools bother with teaching you how to build one.

Why is that? Everyone thinks owning a home matters.

Last year at Southern Illinois University I gave a workshop in what the basic skills of a good life are as I understand them. Toward the end a young man rose in back and shouted, ‘I’m twenty-five and I don’t know how to do anything except pass tests! If…