"In our secular society, school has become the……" — John Taylor Gatto
"In our secular society, school has become the replacement for church, and like church it requires that its teachings must be taken on faith."
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63 Quotes by John Taylor Gatto
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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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We must never forget what government is not. Government is not a philanthropic organization. Government is not the family. And…
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I am politically pro-choice, but personally pro-life. I have my faith but refuse to force it on the world at…
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A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together…
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I was married awfully young and I felt trapped. My wife had been divorced and all the time we were…
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See, my hope and dream is that people have a good time watching basketball. It's not church. It's not serious.
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In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians.
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