Childhood Quote by John Taylor Gatto Download Open image “Schools [are]...institutions monopolizing the daytimes of childhood.” — John Taylor Gatto ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Childhood Children Daytimes Childhood Education Institutions Institutions Monopolizing Monopolizing Monopolizing Daytimes School Schools Institutions
“Schools kill time and creativity. Find ways to workaround these limitations” — Gossy Ukanwoke Copy Share Image
Schools can ebb and flow. It can be phenomenal one day, and then you hit fractions, and it falls apart. — Eva Moskowitz Copy Share Image
One of the problems we have is children are not in school long enough in the day and during the year. — Michael Gove Copy Share Image
There's a perception that's been put out into the marketplace by No Child Left Behind that schools aren't doing enough for kids. — Mark Jackson Copy Share Image
“It is time that we squarely face the fact that institutional schoolteaching is destructive to children.” — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Schools, the institutions traditionally called upon to correct social inequality, are unsuited to the task; without economic opportunity to follow educational opportunity, the myth… — Kenneth Keniston Copy Share Image
Teachers spend most of their daytime hours with children. Teachers at every level, coaches, counselors, cafeteria workers and yes, custodians, spend their hours trying… — Susan Straight Copy Share Image
Too many children today are trapped in schools that don't work for them. — Betsy DeVos Copy Share Image
Play is under attack in our nation's schools - and shrinking recess periods are only part of the problem. Homework is increasing. Cities are… — Darell Hammond 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
“Children's lives are always beginning and adults' lives are always ending. Or is it the opposite? Your childhood is always ending and your adult… — Alison Espach Copy Share Image
“From childhood’s hour I have not been As others were—I have not seen As others saw—I could not bring My passions from a common… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
We were so poor as kids. I didn't even see a bathtub, running water, hot water, commode - we didn't have any of that.… — Phil Robertson Copy Share Image
When I talk about my childhood I used to say it as if it was scripted and I'd make jokes because it was a… — Kerry Katona Copy Share Image
Every man remembers his childhood as a kind of mythical age, just as every nation's childhood is its mythical age. — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
It's a very familiar type of place where people either go to their house on the lake or they get together in different places.… — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
Ideal for the child and society in the best of times, Rudolf Steiner's brilliant process of education is critically needed and profoundly relevant now… — Joseph Chilton Pearce Copy Share Image
Downstairs in my house, I have a museum room. I keep all of my awards down there, and childhood photos, and even all the… — R. Kelly Copy Share Image
Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Let positive, strong, helpful thoughts enter into your brains from very childhood. Lay yourselves open to these thoughts, and not to weakening and paralysing… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
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