"Whatever an education is, it should make you……" — John Taylor Gatto

"Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist."

— John Taylor Gatto

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63 Quotes by John Taylor Gatto

John Taylor Gatto has 63 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Growth and mastery come only to those who vigorously self-direct. Initiating, creating, doing, reflecting, freely associating, enjoying privacy-these are precisely…
I teach how to fit into a world I don't want to live in. I just can't do it anymore.
School is the first impression children get of organized society. Like most first impressions it is the lasting one. Life…
The premise upon which mass compulsion schooling is based is dead wrong. It tries to shoehorn every style, culture, and…
The shocking possibility that dumb people don't exist in sufficient numbers to warrant the millions of careers devoted to tending…
Curiosity has no important place in my work, only conformity.
The primary goal of real education is not to deliver facts but to guide students to the truths that will…
This was once a land where every sane person knew how to build a shelter, grow food, and entertain one…
Children allowed to take responsibility and given a serious part in the larger world are always superior to those merely…
Government schooling is the most radical adventure in history. It kills the family by monopolizing the best times of childhood…
Do we really need school? I don't mean education, just forced schooling: six classes a day, five days a week,…
Schools stifle family originality by appropriating the critical time needed for any sound idea of family to develop - then…

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More Conformist Quotes

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The cynic finds love with the idealist. The rebel with the conformist. The social butterfly with the bookworm. They help… — Joyce Brothers
Ice dance should not be seen as a rigid conformist form of figure skating. There is a great deal of… — Robin Cousins
How protean are the devices available to human intelligence when it lends itself to the persistence of the conformist error. — Robert M. Lindner
The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all. — Max Beerbohm
True individualists tend to be quite unobservant; it is the snob, the would be sophisticate, the frightened conformist, who keeps… — Louis Kronenberger
You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Human beings never think for themselves... For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told-and… — Michael Crichton
He who would be a man must therefore be a non-conformist. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Chess is my profession. I am my own boss; I am free. I like literature and music, classical especially. I… — Bent Larsen
As human beings we have unlimited potential and imagination. The worst thing you can do is be a conformist and… — Deepak Chopra
Only conformists are ever adored. — Catherine Breillat

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