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In “The Seven-Lesson Schoolteacher,” a selection out of Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling published in 1992, John Taylor Gatto warns against the debilitating curriculum to which America’s children are being exposed and the degenerative state it is leaving our nation. The seven lessons Gatto presents are able to elaborate the very ironic, but honest function school has in society. Gatto mentions the lack of wholeness in education. He states that children are taught in fragmented, incoherent lesson plans as to detour them from the big picture. This idea is initially addressed in his first lesson “Confusion” where the fragmentation of education is focused on, but then reiterated in the third lesson of “Indifference” where the effect of this fragmenta