Bad habit Quote by John Taylor Gatto Download Open image “School is a twelve-year jail sentence where bad habits are the only curriculum truly learned.” — John Taylor Gatto ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bad habit Bad habits Curriculum Habit Habits Jail School Sentences Twelve Years
School is a twelve-year jail sentence where bad habits are the only curriculum truly learned. I teach school and win awards doing it. I… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
School is like a jail and your the prisoner that gets caught every time you get bail — Kells Copy Share Image
School is now a place where punishment and discipline are prioritized over serving students and educating them. Any moment where a student falls outside… — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other.… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Crime is a social problem, and education is the only real deterrent. Look at all of us in prison; we were all truants and… — Wilbert Rideau Copy Share Image
Nothing can excel a few days in jail for giving a young man or woman a quick education in the basis of industrial society. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
If you live in a material universe where acquiring things is very important to you, then family is an absolute deterrent to maintaining that… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
We could encourage the best qualities of youthfulness - curiosity, adventure, resilience, the capacity for surprising insight simply by being more flexible about time,… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
There isn't a right way to become educated; there are as many ways as there are fingerprints. — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
The truth is that schools don't really teach anything except how to obey orders. This is a great mystery to me because thousands of… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
“Any economy in which the most common tasks are the shuffling of paper, the punching of buttons, and the running of mouths isn’t an… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
This was once a land where every sane person knew how to build a shelter, grow food, and entertain one another. Now we have… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
Schools were designed by Horace Mann and Barnard Sears and Harper of the University of Chicago and Thorndyke of Columbia Teachers College and some… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
You need experience, adventure, and explorations more than you need algebra! — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
A lot of the strings that hold us like puppets are really inventions of our own minds. I'm not saying that there aren't armies… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
Is there an idea more radical in the history of the human race than turning your children over to total strangers whom you know… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
School is a twelve-year jail sentence where bad habits are the only curriculum truly learned. I teach school and win awards doing it. I… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
Working at home is hard. It tends to give you bad habits. It feels more like you're going to work when you get up… — Kate Beaton Copy Share Image
“I’m afraid I don’t suffer petty bureaucrats gladly. A very bad habit, but one I find hard to break. Nevertheless, you will find, Dr.… — Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child Copy Share Image
When you're walking at the airport, you're expected to smile at people because they know you... I find that tough. I'm only trying to… — Katrina Kaif Copy Share Image
I don't want to be overdramatic about it, but I'm starting to see a lot of my bad habits get the best of me. — Ben Gibbard Copy Share Image
The first duty of a Christian, of a disciple and follower of Jesus Christ, is to deny himself. To deny oneself means to give… — Innocent of Alaska Copy Share Image
“So, did you see that community center I was talking about?” “What? Where?” “We walked right past it, just before that grocery store. I… — Jackson Pearce Copy Share Image
The game is played out of instinct, but everyone on the ice has habits - good and bad. So the key to the game… — Wayne Gretzky Copy Share Image