"Curiosity has no important place in my work,……" — John Taylor Gatto
"Curiosity has no important place in my work, only conformity."
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John Taylor Gatto
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63 Quotes by John Taylor Gatto
John Taylor Gatto has 63 quotes on this site.
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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…
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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…
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The premise upon which mass compulsion schooling is based is dead wrong. It tries to shoehorn every style, culture, and…
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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…
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The primary goal of real education is not to deliver facts but to guide students to the truths that will…
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This was once a land where every sane person knew how to build a shelter, grow food, and entertain one…
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Children allowed to take responsibility and given a serious part in the larger world are always superior to those merely…
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Government schooling is the most radical adventure in history. It kills the family by monopolizing the best times of childhood…
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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,…
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Schools stifle family originality by appropriating the critical time needed for any sound idea of family to develop - then…
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School is a twelve-year jail sentence where bad habits are the only curriculum truly learned.
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More Conformity Quotes
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Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and…
— Karen Armstrong
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
— Matthew Arnold
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If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Church,…
— Teresa of Avila
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If I decide to be an idiot, then I'll be an idiot on my own accord.
— Johann Sebastian Bach
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Government has really been growing, a lot of largesse, but the people in the real world aren't. And that's what…
— Michele Bachmann
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I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't…
— Erykah Badu
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Norwegian legislation is more in conformity with the rules of the European Union than most member states.
— Jose Manuel Barroso
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Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic…
— Ray Bradbury
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Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.
— Jacob Bronowski
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The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.
— Rita Mae Brown
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To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger…
— Steven Brust
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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
— William S. Burroughs
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