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Things Quotes by John Taylor Gatto
- 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…
- ...good things happen to the human spirit when it is left alone.
- 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…
- 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…
- Creative work and critical thought, which produces new knowledge, can't be conditioned; indeed, conditioning prevents these things from ever happening.
- 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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- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
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