"The obligation to amuse and instruct myself was……" — John Taylor Gatto
"The obligation to amuse and instruct myself was entirely my own, and people who didn't know that were childish people, to be avoided if possible. Certainly not to be trusted."
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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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More Amuse Quotes
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'And for my part, Gentlemen,' said I, 'that I may put in for a share, and guess with the rest;…
— Cyrano de Bergerac
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Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.
— Helen Gurley Brown
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I'm undaunted in my quest to amuse myself by constantly changing my hair.
— Hillary Clinton
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That one must do some work seriously and must be independent and not merely amuse oneself in life-this our mother…
— Unknown Author
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One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves. The…
— Susan Sontag
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... the first thing his education demands is the provision of an environment in which he can develop the powers…
— Maria Montessori
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Religion has become to many merely a means of doing a little charity work, just to amuse them after a…
— Swami Vivekananda
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True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes…
— Seneca the Elder
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Science can amuse and fascinate us all, but it is engineering that changes the world.
— Isaac Asimov
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I have always done my sketches, as people would say, for the fun of it... I have worked to amuse…
— Aubrey Beardsley
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Don't think you can...know you can! Your human body is the most impressive tool that you will ever own. Even…
— Jeff Hardy
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Man's destructive hand spares nothing that lives; he kills to feed himself, he kills to clothe himself, he kills to…
— Joseph de Maistre
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