Best John Taylor Gatto Sayings
- Creative work and critical thought, which produces new knowledge, can't be conditioned; indeed, conditioning prevents these things from ever happening. Conditioned
- School is about learning to wait your turn, however long it takes to come, if ever. And how to submit with a show of enthusiasm… Enthusiasm
- Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist; it should furnish you with an original spirit with which to… Allow
- Who besides a degraded rabble would voluntarily present itself to be graded and classified like meat? No wonder school is compulsory. Besides
- School reform is not enough. The notion of schooling itself must be challenged. Challenged
- 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 should… Awards
- Ive concluded that genius is as common as dirt. We suppress our genius only because we havent yet figured out how to manage a population… Anarchy
- I dont think well get rid of schools any time soon, certainly not in my lifetime, but if were going to change whats rapidly becoming… Any
- I've come to believe that genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us... I began to wonder, reluctantly, whether it… Act
- How will they learn to read? you ask, and my answer is Remember the lessons of Massachusetts. When children are given whole lives instead of… Age
- Its absurd and anti-life to be part of a system that compels you to sit in confinement with people of exactly the same age and… Absurd
- By preventing a free market in education, a handful of social engineers - backed by the industries that profit from compulsory schooling: teacher colleges, textbook… Al
- I've noticed a facinating phenomenon in my thiry years of teaching: schools and schooling are increasingly irrelvant to the great enterprises of the planet. No… Abstract