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John Taylor Gatto

John Taylor Gatto
Born (1935-12-15) December 15, 1935 (age 81)
Monongahela, Pennsylvania, USA
Residence Oxford, New York
Nationality American
Other names John Gatto
Education Cornell University
University of Pittsburgh
Yeshiva University
Hunter College
Reed College
University of California, Berkeley
Occupation Author and speaker
Known for Educational activist, scholar, New York State Teacher of the Year
Spouse(s) Janet Gatto
Website www.johntaylorgatto.com

John Taylor Gatto (born December 15, 1935) is an American author and former school teacher who taught in the classroom for nearly 30 years. He devoted much of his energy to his teaching career, then, following his resignation, authored several books on modern education, criticizing its ideology, history, and consequences. He is best known for the underground classic Dumbing Us Down: the Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling, and The Underground History of American Education: A Schoolteacher’s Intimate Investigation Into the Problem of Modern Schooling, which is sometimes considered to be his magnum opus.

He was named New York City Teacher of the Year in 1989, 1990, and 1991, and New York State Teacher of the Year in 1991.

Gatto was born in the Pittsburgh-area steel town of Monongahela, Pennsylvania. In his youth he attended public schools throughout the Pittsburgh Metro Area including Swissvale, Monongahela, and Uniontown as well as a Catholic boarding school in Latrobe. He did undergraduate work at Cornell, the University of Pittsburgh, and Columbia, then served in the U.S. Army medical corps at Fort Knox, Kentucky, and Fort Sam Houston, Texas. Following army service he did graduate work at the City University of New York, Hunter College, Yeshiva University, the University of California, Berkeley, and Cornell.


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