Bearsville Theater
Hudson River Lyceum proudly presents John Taylor Gatto
Friday, May 29, 2009
7:00pm
Admission is FREE
Are you interested in innovative ideas? Do you seek creative and fresh thought that might cause you to consider the world around you a bit differently? Are you tired of being fed filtered news and information? Do you care about your country and its future? If you answered yes to any of these questions, than you are not alone.
Fortunately for you a new lecture series has been organized which will serve as a forum to hear engaging speakers talk about topics of general interest in addition to important public policy issues. The lecture series, known as Hudson River Lyceum (HRL), has been created for everyone who feels that education doesn’t end with formal schooling but rather is a life long endeavor. It is designed to encourage you, your friends, neighbors and fellow citizens to gather in a public setting to hear a real live speaker. This simple act of community seems to be disappearing from the scene as a plethora of various media vies for our attention.
The Lyceum is honored to have its inaugural lecture given by John Taylor Gatto, one of the most visionary observers of public education in America.
For more than two decades, former New York City and State Teacher of the Year John Taylor Gatto has been among the most insightful and outspoken critics of American schooling, and an influential visionary of the future of education. Gatto has exhitbed the courage to challenge an educational system that is obsolete and out of touch with reality. Through hundreds of public talks, articles, interviews, and classroom projects, Gatto has shown decisively where our failing schools have gone wrong and what can be done to fix them.
Gatto is the author of several bestselling books including Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling, The Exhausted School, The Underground History of American Education, and Weapons of Mass Instruction. He serves on the Advisory Boards of the National TV - Turnoff and the National Council of Alternative Community Schools. In 1998 he received the Alexis de Toqueville Award for his contribution to the cause of human liberty. His articles have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Whole Earth Review, The Sun and The Utne Reader.
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