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Teaching Quotes by John Taylor Gatto
- Government schooling is the most radical adventure in history. It kills the family by monopolizing the best times of childhood and by teaching disrespect for…
- 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…
- In our secular society, school has become the replacement for church, and like church it requires that its teachings must be taken on faith.
- 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…
- 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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