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Way Quotes by John Taylor Gatto
- There isn't a right way to become educated; there are as many ways as there are fingerprints.
- 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…
- 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…
- Child labor becomes a label of condemnation in spite of its ancient function as the quickest, most reliable way to human independence
- You either learn your way towards writing your own script in life, or you unwittingly become an actor in someone else's script.
- Close reading of tough-minded writing is still the best, cheapest, and quickest method known for learning to think for yourself... Reading, and rigorous discussion of…
- What's gotten in the way of education in the United States is a theory of social engineering that says there is ONE RIGHT WAY to…
- 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…
- Its absurd and anti-life to be part of a system that compels you to sit in confinement with people of exactly the same age and…
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