num_pages: 409
description: The World's Most Courageous Teacher reveals the inner circle secrets of the American school system. The legendary schoolteacher John Taylor Gatto invested over 10 years of dedicated research to uncover some of the most alarming ideas and writings by the creators and advocates of mandatory attendance schooling which show where the system came from and why it was created. He combined these facts with his personal experience as a teacher for 30 years in New York public schools where he won many awards including being named State Teacher of the Year twice and has authored an all-time classic.
language: English
title: The Underground History of American Education: An Intimate Investigation Into the Prison of Modern Schooling
publisher: Oxford Village Press