{"id":243,"date":"2005-08-05T20:44:13","date_gmt":"2005-08-05T20:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/?p=243"},"modified":"2010-05-08T20:44:43","modified_gmt":"2010-05-08T20:44:43","slug":"dumbing-us-down-family-as-the-main-engine-of-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/dumbing-us-down-family-as-the-main-engine-of-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Dumbing Us Down: Family as the Main Engine of Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Independent study, community service, adventures and experience, large  doses of privacy and solitude, a thousand different apprenticeships, the  one-day variety or longer\u2014these are all powerful, cheap, and effective  ways to start a real reform of schooling. But no large-scale reform is  ever going to work to repair our damaged children and our damaged  society until we force open the idea of \u2018school\u2019 to include <em>family<\/em> as the main engine of education. If we use schooling to break children  away from parents\u2014and make no mistake, that has been the central  function of schools since John Cotton announced it as the purpose of the  Bay Colony schools in 1650 and Horace Mann announced it as the purpose  of Massachusetts schools in 1850\u2014we\u2019re going to continue to have the  horror show we have right now.&#8221; (John Taylor Gatto,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?link_code=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;tag=mjtate-20&amp;creative=9325&amp;path=tg\/detail\/-\/0865714487\/qid=1123213605\/sr=8-1\/ref=pd_bbs_sbs_1?v=glance%26s=books%26n=507846\"><span style=\"color: #000066;\">Dumbing Us Down<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000066;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=mjtate-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/>, p. <\/span>37)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Independent study, community service, adventures and experience, large doses of privacy and solitude, a thousand different apprenticeships, the one-day variety or longer\u2014these are all powerful, cheap, and effective ways to start a real reform of schooling. But no large-scale reform is ever going to work to repair our damaged children and our damaged society until &#8230; <a title=\"Dumbing Us Down: Family as the Main Engine of Education\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/dumbing-us-down-family-as-the-main-engine-of-education\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Dumbing Us Down: Family as the Main Engine of Education\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}