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Schools Quotes by John Taylor Gatto
- Schools stifle family originality by appropriating the critical time needed for any sound idea of family to develop - then they blame the family for…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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 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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- Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in… — Margaret Atwood
- Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our… — Joe Baca
- I grew up in a family that was multifaceted, sexually oriented, and pretty much open to everything. And because I was working,… — Drew Barrymore
- Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in… — Jacques Barzun
- There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books. — Henry Ward Beecher
- Illegal immigrants are using our resources, taking our jobs, filling our schools, our hospitals and our prisons, and we are paying for… — Dan Benishek
- It is a fundamental truth that the responsibilities of motherhood cannot be successfully delegated. No, not to day-care centers, not to schools,… — Ezra Taft Benson
- I would like to teach music. It's weird the way they teach music in schools like Julliard these days. — Bjork
- When you're fund-raising for schools, then something's wrong. We seem to have lost some sort of sense of what the common good… — Lewis Black
- If you really believe that you're making a difference and that you can leave a legacy of better schools and jobs and… — Michael Bloomberg
- It's not like Alaska isn't wilderness - it mostly is. But most Alaskans don't live in the wild. They live on the… — Tom Bodett
- When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates… — Bono