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Learning Quotes by John Taylor Gatto
- 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…
- Genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us.
- I've concluded that genius is as common as dirt. We suppress genius because we haven't yet figured out how to manage a population of educated…
- One of the first things a family tries to teach its children is the difference between good and evil, right and wrong. One of the…
- It is absurd and anti-life to be a part of a system that compels you to listen to a stranger reading poetry when you want…
- The old system where every child was locked away and set into nonstop, daily cut throat competition with every other child for silly prizes called…
- School presents daily exercises in dis-association. It forces unwelcome associations on most of its prisoners. It sets petty, meaningless competitions in motion on a daily…
- It was never factually true that young people learn to read or do arithmetic primarily by being taught these things. These things are learned, but…
- Creative work and critical thought, which produces new knowledge, can't be conditioned; indeed, conditioning prevents these things from ever happening.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
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- All men by nature desire knowledge. — Aristotle
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- Research is creating new knowledge. — Neil Armstrong
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- The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' — Isaac Asimov
- Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. — Isaac Asimov
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- The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing. — Isaac Asimov