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A Letter to my Granddaughter about Dartmouth
From: Weapons of Mass Instruction
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You just turned 17 this month, granddaughter, and you’ll be leaving the nest for college soon, I suppose. I wish you wouldn’t, but I know better than to say that, so at least let me try to reduce the stress your elite high school, Bronx Science, has embedded in your mind. No matter what you’ve heard, college isn’t important to your future, so don’t worry about it. Go or not, do well or not. Ten years from now you won’t remember a single class or professor. What really matters isn’t taught there. The saddest people on earth are the ones who go back to college reunions — 35 percent of all college graduates regret the waste of time and money, and wish they hadn’t attended; 50 percent say they didn’t learn anything useful there.
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John Taylor Gatto
John Taylor Gatto taught 30 years in public schools before resigning from school teaching on the op-ed pages of the Wall Street Journal during the year he was named New York State’s official “Teacher of the Year.” Since then he has been a tireless advocate for school reform, traveling over three million miles to lecture on the subject. His earlier book, Dumbing Us Down, has sold over 100,000 copies.
