Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling faraz khan a rich man

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continues his masterful work on the great Dominican theologian and brings an immense learning to bear on a subject that most readers have not considered very carefully: Thomas's spirituality

Translator: Musa Furber

It sets the challenge for present day scholars to take up the mantle of elucidating the Qur'an within our modern context and reinforces to the layman what a bewilderingly wondrous gift it is that Allah has placed in our midst

Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling faraz khan a rich manAfter over 100 years of mandatory schooling in the U. S., literacy rates have dropped, families are fragmented, learning disabilities are skyrocketing, and children and youth are increasingly disaffected. Thirty years of teaching in the public school system led John Taylor Gatto to the sad conclusion that compulsory governmental schooling is to blame, accomplishing little but to teach young people to follow orders like cogs in an industrial machine.