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Them Quotes by John Taylor Gatto
- 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…
- The primary goal of real education is not to deliver facts but to guide students to the truths that will allow them to take responsibility…
- I feel ashamed that so many of us cannot imagine a better way to do things than locking children up all day in cells instead…
- 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…
- Children learn what they live. Put kids in a class and they will live out their lives in an invisible cage, isolated from their chance…
- 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…
- 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…
- Ive concluded that genius is as common as dirt. We suppress our genius only because we havent yet figured out how to manage a population…
- 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…
- How will they learn to read? you ask, and my answer is Remember the lessons of Massachusetts. When children are given whole lives instead of…
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