"Grades don't measure anything other than your relevant……" — John Taylor Gatto
"Grades don't measure anything other than your relevant obedience to a manager."
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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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Curiosity has no important place in my work, only conformity.
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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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I was always a good student. I wasn't the A-plus student, but I studied really hard, and I probably had…
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I went from being very popular and the head of the clique in the sixth grade to having, like, kid…
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The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of…
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I grew up below the poverty line; I didn't have as much as other people did. I think it made…
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My mother taught public school, went to Harvard and then got her master's there and taught fifth and sixth grade…
— Ben Affleck
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There hasn't been a day in my life since I started Latin in ninth grade that I haven't benefited by…
— Rita Mae Brown
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My dad was the manager at the 45,000-acre ranch, but he owned his own 1,200-acre ranch, and I owned four…
— Dave Brubeck
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I had a very high-grade publisher tell me I was incapable of writing a memoir.
— Mitch Albom
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I'm a great believer that the most important years are the sort of early years but the preschool years and…
— Barbara Bush
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I was sort of traumatized by girls in the third grade. Because there was a girl in my third grade…
— Steve Carell
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Intelligent people tend to talk about the facts. They don't sit around and call each other names. That's what you…
— Benjamin Carson
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I was not an outstanding student. I did a reasonable amount of work. I got generally good - pretty good…
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