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School 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…
- I teach how to fit into a world I don't want to live in. I just can't do it anymore.
- 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…
- The shocking possibility that dumb people don't exist in sufficient numbers to warrant the millions of careers devoted to tending them will seem incredible to…
- 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…
- Schools stifle family originality by appropriating the critical time needed for any sound idea of family to develop - then they blame the family for…
- School is a twelve-year jail sentence where bad habits are the only curriculum truly learned.
- The truth is that schools don't really teach anything except how to obey orders.
- 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…
- We have been taught (that is, schooled) in this country to think of 'success' as synonymous with, or at least dependent upon, 'schooling,' but historically…
- 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…
- For reasons that are both fair and foul - but mostly for fair reasons - we have come under the domain of a scientific-management system…
- In our secular society, school has become the replacement for church, and like church it requires that its teachings must be taken on faith.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Who besides a degraded rabble would voluntarily present itself to be graded and classified like meat? No wonder school is compulsory.
- School reform is not enough. The notion of schooling itself must be 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…
- 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…
- 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…
More School Quotes
- The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. — Aristotle
- School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, so why practice? — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Yeah, I know, some people are against drunk driving, and I call those people 'the cops.' But you know, sometimes, you've just… — Dave Attell
- When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands. — Chinua Achebe
- When I was 16, I started publishing all kinds of things in school magazines. — Margaret Atwood
- Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in… — Margaret Atwood
- I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in… — Margaret Atwood
- Almost every day, instead of going to school, I made for the fields, where I spent my day. — John James Audubon
- Love is the best school, but the tuition is high and the homework can be painful. — Diane Ackerman
- I love to come in and play with a wig or glasses or clothes. I love using props. I'm from the Peter… — Dan Aykroyd
- When I was in middle school, some of my so-called friends found a catalogue ad I did for Superman pajamas. They made… — Jensen Ackles