Politics Quote by John Taylor Gatto

We need to end the government monopoly in education by transferring power from bureaucracies and unions to families. The era of defining public education…

— Jeb Bush

In terms of other functions, we are making a mistake about insisting on a public school monopoly.

— James Q. Wilson

“It is time that we squarely face the fact that institutional schoolteaching is destructive to children.”

— John Taylor Gatto

Our public school system is our country's biggest and most inefficient monopoly, yet it keeps demanding more and more money.

— Phyllis Schlafly

“School is not a brand holding a monopoly on learning, and we need to stop feeding it as such. It’s time to open our…

— Ellen Rowland

Today's public education system is a failed monopoly: bureaucratic, rigid and in unsteady control of dissatisfied captive markets.

— David T. Kearns

My hope is that we revive 'monopoly' as a core piece of political rhetoric that broadly denotes dominant firms with pernicious powers.

— Franklin Foer

Support charters; insist on change for failing schools.

— Newt Gingrich

“School should become the place where teachers, not just students, learn.”

— Vijay Dhameliya

The dangers of unexamined and unregulated monopoly power, particularly in the state executive, are hardly news. The right reaction is not passive acquiescence.

— Noam Chomsky

Governments have ever been known to hold a high hand over the education of the people. They know, better than anyone else, that their…

— Francesc Ferrer i Guardia

Anyone who fears, as I do, that today's public schools are dangerously close to being irrelevant must read this book. The authors provide a…

— John Merrow