# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-taylor-gatto
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:22:01.529Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/john-taylor-gatto"
name: "John Taylor Gatto"
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description: "John Taylor Gatto was an American author and school teacher. After teaching for nearly 30 years he authored several books on modern education, criticizing its ideology, history, and consequences. He is best known for 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 which criticize the modern education system and promote the concept of unschooling and a return to homeschooling."
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birthDate: "1935-12-15"
deathDate: "2018-10-25"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump