# John Taylor Gatto

> He spent nearly three decades inside public school classrooms, then walked away and spent the rest of his life arguing that the entire system was designed to produce obedience, not thought.

*American teacher and author (1935-2018)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Educator
- **Category:** Educators
- **Country:** United States
- **Born:** 1935-12-15
- **Died:** 2018-10-25
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

John Taylor Gatto taught in American schools for close to 30 years before turning his experience into an indictment. His books - 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 - took apart the machinery of compulsory education and made a case for unschooling and homeschooling instead. He died October 25, 2018, at 82, decades after leaving the classroom but never the argument.

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