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John Taylor Gatto has 67 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Growth and mastery come only to those who vigorously self-direct. Initiating, creating, doing, reflecting, freely associating, enjoying privacy-these are precisely what the…
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I teach how to fit into a world I don't want to live in. I just can't do it anymore.
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School is the first impression children get of organized society. Like most first impressions it is the lasting one. Life is dull…
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The premise upon which mass compulsion schooling is based is dead wrong. It tries to shoehorn every style, culture, and personality into…
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The shocking possibility that dumb people don't exist in sufficient numbers to warrant the millions of careers devoted to tending them will…
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Curiosity has no important place in my work, only conformity.
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The primary goal of real education is not to deliver facts but to guide students to the truths that will allow them…
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This was once a land where every sane person knew how to build a shelter, grow food, and entertain one another. Now…
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Children allowed to take responsibility and given a serious part in the larger world are always superior to those merely permitted to…
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Government schooling is the most radical adventure in history. It kills the family by monopolizing the best times of childhood and by…
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Do we really need school? I don't mean education, just forced schooling: six classes a day, five days a week, nine months…
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Schools stifle family originality by appropriating the critical time needed for any sound idea of family to develop - then they blame…
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I haven't a great Jazz band and I don't want one.
— Glenn Miller
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Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.
— Oscar Wilde
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All of our suffering in life is from saying we want one thing and doing another.
— Debbie Ford
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No, I don't have a boyfriend, I don't want one.
— Emma Roberts
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We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.
— Seneca the Younger
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There is no off position on my visual switch, and I don't want one. I love, and always have, telling stories with…
— Bill Frakes
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I was well motivated. What I wanted to do was work for myself. I had twenty two jobs before I started my…
— Barbara Corcoran
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I haven't got a great jazz band and I don't want one. Some of the critics, Down Beat's among them, point their…
— Glenn Miller
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Don't they know science doesn't work like that? You can't just order scientific breakthroughs. They happen when you are looking at something…
— Connie Willis
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People tell me I need an assistant, but I dont want one.
— David Karp
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We had two rules growing up in my house: If you're going to take a shower, do it with whomever you're dating…
— Moon Unit Zappa
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I have nothing against undertakers personally. It's just that I wouldn't want one to bury my sister.
— Jessica Mitford
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