“It’s perfectly obvious from our society today what those specifications were. Maturity has by now been banished from nearly every aspect of… — john taylor gatto Copy Share Image
Do we really need school? I don't mean education, just forced schooling: six classes a day, five days a week, nine months… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
I dont think well get rid of schools any time soon, certainly not in my lifetime, but if were going to change… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
Teaching is a function, not a profession. Anything with something to offer can teach. — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
“imitation of notable models as an effective spring of learning; was the most ancient and effective motivation to learn—to become like someone… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
Slowly I began to realize that the bells and the confinement, the crazy sequences, the age-segregation, the lack of privacy, the constant… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
Government schooling made people dumber, not brighter; made families weaker; ruined formal religion with its hard-sell exclusion of God; set the class… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist. — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling. — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
What's gotten in the way of education in the United States is a theory of social engineering that says there is ONE… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
Close reading of tough-minded writing is still the best, cheapest, and quickest method known for learning to think for yourself... Reading, and… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
Children learn what they live. Put kids in a class and they will live out their lives in an invisible cage, isolated… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
In our secular society, school has become the replacement for church, and like church it requires that its teachings must be taken… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
Is it any wonder that Socrates was outraged at the accusation he took money to teach? Even then, philosophers saw clearly the… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
We have been taught (that is, schooled) in this country to think of 'success' as synonymous with, or at least dependent upon,… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
School reform is not enough. The notion of schooling itself must be challenged. — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
Schools [are]...institutions monopolizing the daytimes of childhood. — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
Looking back on a 30-year teaching career full of rewards and prizes, somehow I can't completely believe that I spent my time… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
If you live in a material universe where acquiring things is very important to you, then family is an absolute deterrent to maintaining that… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
We could encourage the best qualities of youthfulness - curiosity, adventure, resilience, the capacity for surprising insight simply by being more flexible about time,… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
There isn't a right way to become educated; there are as many ways as there are fingerprints. — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
The truth is that schools don't really teach anything except how to obey orders. This is a great mystery to me because thousands of… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
“Any economy in which the most common tasks are the shuffling of paper, the punching of buttons, and the running of mouths isn’t an… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
This was once a land where every sane person knew how to build a shelter, grow food, and entertain one another. Now we have… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
Schools were designed by Horace Mann and Barnard Sears and Harper of the University of Chicago and Thorndyke of Columbia Teachers College and some… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
You need experience, adventure, and explorations more than you need algebra! — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
A lot of the strings that hold us like puppets are really inventions of our own minds. I'm not saying that there aren't armies… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
Is there an idea more radical in the history of the human race than turning your children over to total strangers whom you know… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
School is a twelve-year jail sentence where bad habits are the only curriculum truly learned. I teach school and win awards doing it. I… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
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