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One Quotes by John Taylor Gatto
- Growth and mastery come only to those who vigorously self-direct. Initiating, creating, doing, reflecting, freely associating, enjoying privacy-these are precisely what the structures of schooling…
- School is the first impression children get of organized society. Like most first impressions it is the lasting one. Life is dull and stupid, only…
- The premise upon which mass compulsion schooling is based is dead wrong. It tries to shoehorn every style, culture, and personality into one ugly boot…
- This was once a land where every sane person knew how to build a shelter, grow food, and entertain one another. Now we have 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…
- I’ve noticed a fascinating phenomenon in my twenty-five years of teaching - that schools and schooling are increasingly irrelevant to the great enterprises of the…
- Nobody gives you an education. If you want one, you have to take it.
- 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…
- Individuality, family, and community are, by definition, expressions of singular organization, never of "one-right-way" thinking on the grand scale. Children and families need some relief…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
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