How long does it take to read The Underground History of American Education?
John Taylor Gatto, Richard Grove, David Rodriguez, David Ruenzel, Dr. Ron Paul
The Underground History of American Education by John Taylor Gatto, Richard Grove, David Rodriguez, David Ruenzel, Dr. Ron Paul takes about 6 hours 10 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours 10 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2003. 336 pages, about 92,400 words.
13 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 10 hours 16 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 10 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 51 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A former teacher, Gatto left the classroom the same year he was named New York State Teacher of the Year. He announced his decision in a letter to the Wall Street Jounal titled "I Quit, I Think". Using anecdotes gathered from thirty years of teaching, alongside documentation, Gatto presents his view of modern compulsion schooling as opposed to genuine education, describing a "conflict between systems which offer physical safety and certainty at the cost of suppressing free will, and those which offer liberty at the price of constant risk". Gatto argues that educational strategies promoted by government and industry leaders for over a century included the creation of a system that keeps real power in the hands of very few people.
Subjects: Education, History, Aims and objectives, Experimental methods, Evaluation, Philosophy
