Advisory Board
ADVISORY BOARD
JOHN TAYLOR GATTO was a schoolteacher for 30 years, winning several awards in the State of New York for his compassionate insightful, and extraordinary teaching style. Stumbling upon a trail of information that led him to discover the ulterior purpose behind our compulsory educational system, he concluded that schools were in fact dangerous places for children. In protest of what he considered to be a corrupt and incorrigible educational system he gave up his successful and highly acclaimed teaching career and began to speak out about the true purpose behind compulsory schooling. Mr. Gatto is also the author of several books including The Underground History of American Education. To learn more about the work of John Taylor Gatto please visit his website at: www.johntaylorgatto.com.
HAMZA YUSUF HANSON has been an educator for 15 years, and teaches both the Arabic language and Middle Eastern Studies. He lectures internationally and because of his expertise in Middle Eastern affairs, has acted as an advisor to many governmental bodies around the world. Mr. Hanson has had a lifelong interest and pursuit in the liberal arts, and when he has time from his professional schedule, he lectures upon request to parents and educators interested in pursuing a traditional education for their children and students.
TROY HANSON received his Baccalaureate degree in English and post-graduate degree in Law, and currently practices law in the San Francisco Bay Area. When he is not practicing law, Mr. Hanson continues his own life-long education in the study of the liberal arts. He has attended many workshops on the “Great Books,” and has discussed such works with some of the most brilliant minds in the country, including that of the late Mortimer Adler, a forerunner in the classical educational movement. He is part of an ongoing study group in the Bay Area, which discusses and attempts to understand the great thinkers of the classic world such as Plato, Aristotle, and Euclid. He is writing a book on logic and rhetoric entitled: Speaking with Style.
FADWA SILMI received her undergraduate degree in Middle Eastern Studies from the University of California in Berkeley in 1997. After teaching in a private elementary school for five years, she returned to academia and received a Master's Degree in Elementary Education from San Francisco State University. Ms. Silmi currently lives with her family in the San Francisco Bay Area and works as a Program Director for the children's Quran school at the Zaytuna Institute & Academy.
JOHN TAYLOR GATTO was a schoolteacher for 30 years, winning several awards in the State of New York for his compassionate insightful, and extraordinary teaching style. Stumbling upon a trail of information that led him to discover the ulterior purpose behind our compulsory educational system, he concluded that schools were in fact dangerous places for children. In protest of what he considered to be a corrupt and incorrigible educational system he gave up his successful and highly acclaimed teaching career and began to speak out about the true purpose behind compulsory schooling. Mr. Gatto is also the author of several books including The Underground History of American Education. To learn more about the work of John Taylor Gatto please visit his website at: www.johntaylorgatto.com.
HAMZA YUSUF HANSON has been an educator for 15 years, and teaches both the Arabic language and Middle Eastern Studies. He lectures internationally and because of his expertise in Middle Eastern affairs, has acted as an advisor to many governmental bodies around the world. Mr. Hanson has had a lifelong interest and pursuit in the liberal arts, and when he has time from his professional schedule, he lectures upon request to parents and educators interested in pursuing a traditional education for their children and students.
TROY HANSON received his Baccalaureate degree in English and post-graduate degree in Law, and currently practices law in the San Francisco Bay Area. When he is not practicing law, Mr. Hanson continues his own life-long education in the study of the liberal arts. He has attended many workshops on the “Great Books,” and has discussed such works with some of the most brilliant minds in the country, including that of the late Mortimer Adler, a forerunner in the classical educational movement. He is part of an ongoing study group in the Bay Area, which discusses and attempts to understand the great thinkers of the classic world such as Plato, Aristotle, and Euclid. He is writing a book on logic and rhetoric entitled: Speaking with Style.
FADWA SILMI received her undergraduate degree in Middle Eastern Studies from the University of California in Berkeley in 1997. After teaching in a private elementary school for five years, she returned to academia and received a Master's Degree in Elementary Education from San Francisco State University. Ms. Silmi currently lives with her family in the San Francisco Bay Area and works as a Program Director for the children's Quran school at the Zaytuna Institute & Academy.
