If you live in a material universe where acquiring things is very important to you, then family is an absolute deterrent to… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
I feel ashamed that so many of us cannot imagine a better way to do things than locking children up all day… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
If you put fleas in a shallow container they jump out. But if you put a lid on the container for just… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
I teach how to fit into a world I don't want to live in. I just can't do it anymore. — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
Children allowed to take responsibility and given a serious part in the larger world are always superior to those merely permitted to… — 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
• As society rapidly changes, individuals will have to be able to function comfortably in a world that is always in flux.… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
Shouldn't we also ask ourselves what the consequences are of scrambling to provide the "most" of everything to our children in a… — 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
