{"id":31679,"date":"2021-01-26T20:49:18","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T09:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=31679"},"modified":"2021-01-26T20:49:18","modified_gmt":"2021-01-26T09:49:18","slug":"dumbing-us-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=31679","title":{"rendered":"Dumbing Us Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-31680\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Dumbing_Us_Down-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"Dumbing Us Down\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Dumbing_Us_Down-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Dumbing_Us_Down.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Morgan Folk writes:<\/p>\n<p>Wow. I am half way through.<\/p>\n<p>I have looked into various kinds of schooling philosophy.<\/p>\n<p>This man was a teacher for 30 years in New York and he spent time in the low income schools as well as in the affluent schools.<\/p>\n<p>This book feels like truth but also feels offensive ??<\/p>\n<p>He discusses the design of compulsory schooling and how the various constructs come together to make (intentionally) compliant people who consume and trust authorities. Woah.<\/p>\n<p>A great and relatively short read that I am definitely enjoying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morgan Folk writes: Wow. I am half way through. I have looked into various kinds of schooling philosophy. This man was a teacher for 30 years in New York and he spent time in the low income schools as well as in the affluent schools. This book feels like truth but also feels offensive ?? &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=31679\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dumbing Us Down&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31681,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31679\/revisions\/31681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}