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Dumbing down is the deliberate oversimplification of intellectual content in education, literature, and cinema, news, video games and culture. As i have been saying for some time now, the education system ultimately serves to program and brainwash young people to fit into the corporate employment agenda, treating kids like cogs in the wheels rather than as individuals with individual needs. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Some will brand this book as conservative propganda. The deliberate dumbing down of america book by charlotte. Last week, we began to look at a book entitled the deliberate dumbing down of america ravenna, ohio, the conscience press, 2000 by educator charlotte thomson iserbyt. The term dumbing down originated in 1933, as moviebusiness slang used by screenplay writers, meaning. The title has no capital letters, to dramatize the deliberate dumbing down of children in the nations government public schools.
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