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Education Quotes by John Taylor Gatto
- The primary goal of real education is not to deliver facts but to guide students to the truths that will allow them to take responsibility…
- Do we really need school? I don't mean education, just forced schooling: six classes a day, five days a week, nine months a year, for…
- Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist.
- God was pitched out of forced schooling on his ear after WWII. This wasn't because of any constitutional proscription-there was none that anyone had been…
- Government schooling made people dumber, not brighter; made families weaker; ruined formal religion with its hard-sell exclusion of God; set the class structure in stone…
- Nobody gives you an education. If you want one, you have to take it.
- Schools were designed by Horace Mann and Barnard Sears and Harper of the University of Chicago and Thorndyke of Columbia Teachers College and some other…
- Close reading of tough-minded writing is still the best, cheapest, and quickest method known for learning to think for yourself... Reading, and rigorous discussion of…
- When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling.
- What's gotten in the way of education in the United States is a theory of social engineering that says there is ONE RIGHT WAY to…
- I don’t think we’ll get rid of schools any time soon, certainly not in my lifetime, but if we’re going to change what’s rapidly becoming…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- By preventing a free market in education, a handful of social engineers - backed by the industries that profit from compulsory schooling: teacher colleges, textbook…
More Education Quotes
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. — Aristotle
- All men by nature desire knowledge. — Aristotle
- The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. — Aristotle
- Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
- You teach best what you most need to learn. — Richard Bach
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach
- Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind… — Mary Kay Ash
- When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price. — Arthur Ashe