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John Taylor Gatto quotes: Why, then, are we locking kids up in an involuntary network with strangers for twelve years? Why, then, are we locking kids up in an involuntary network with strangers for twelve years?
John Taylor Gatto quotes: It is time that we squarely face the fact that institutional schoolteaching is destructive to children. It is time that we squarely face the fact that institutional schoolteaching is destructive to children.
John Taylor Gatto quotes: Nobody gives you an education. If you want one, you have to take it. Nobody gives you an education. If you want one, you have to take it.
John Taylor Gatto quotes: The economy schoolchildren currently expect to live under and serve would not survive a generation of young people trained to think critically. The economy schoolchildren currently expect to live under and serve would not survive a generation of young people trained to think critically.
John Taylor Gatto quotes: Schools teach exactly what they are intended to teach and they do it well: how to be a good Egyptian and remain in your place in the pyramid. Schools teach exactly what they are intended to teach and they do it well: how to be a good Egyptian and remain in your place in the pyramid.
John Taylor Gatto quotes: When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling. When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling.
John Taylor Gatto quotes: Curiosity has no important place in my work, only conformity. Curiosity has no important place in my work, only conformity.
John Taylor Gatto quotes: You need experience, adventure, and explorations more than you need algebra! You need experience, adventure, and explorations more than you need algebra!
John Taylor Gatto quotes: In a home school, the kid does 95% of the work. But in a school system, since it's an indoctrination system, a teacher has to do 95% of the work. In a home school, the kid does 95% of the work. But in a school system, since it's an indoctrination system, a teacher has to do 95% of the work.
John Taylor Gatto quotes: Who besides a degraded rabble would voluntarily present itself to be graded and classified like meat? No wonder school is compulsory. Who besides a degraded rabble would voluntarily present itself to be graded and classified like meat? No wonder school is compulsory.
John Taylor Gatto quotes: It's like a malicious person lifting a photograph from the developing chemicals too early, and then pronouncing the photographer incompetent. It's like a malicious person lifting a photograph from the developing chemicals too early, and then pronouncing the photographer incompetent.
John Taylor Gatto quotes: There isn't a right way to become educated; there are as many ways as there are fingerprints. There isn't a right way to become educated; there are as many ways as there are fingerprints.
John Taylor Gatto quotes: I teach how to fit into a world I don't want to live in. I just can't do it anymore. I teach how to fit into a world I don't want to live in. I just can't do it anymore.
John Taylor Gatto quotes: In our secular society, school has become the replacement for church, and like church it requires that its teachings must be taken on faith. In our secular society, school has become the replacement for church, and like church it requires that its teachings must be taken on faith.
John Taylor Gatto quotes: Average men and women don't really exist except as a statistical conceit. Average men and women don't really exist except as a statistical conceit.
John Taylor Gatto quotes: Genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us. Genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us.
John Taylor Gatto quotes: Teaching is a function, not a profession. Anything with something to offer can teach. Teaching is a function, not a profession. Anything with something to offer can teach.
John Taylor Gatto quotes: Schools [are] ... institutions monopolizing the daytimes of childhood. Schools [are] ... institutions monopolizing the daytimes of childhood.
John Taylor Gatto quotes: School is a twelve-year jail sentence where bad habits are the only curriculum truly learned. I teach school and win awards doing it. I should know. School is a twelve-year jail sentence where bad habits are the only curriculum truly learned. I teach school and win awards doing it. I should know.
John Taylor Gatto quotes: Anyone who is more interested in human beings than in the rules is a threat to the system. Anyone who is more interested in human beings than in the rules is a threat to the system.
John Taylor Gatto quotes: The truth is that schools don't really teach anything except how to obey orders. The truth is that schools don't really teach anything except how to obey orders.
John Taylor Gatto quotes: School reform is not enough. The notion of schooling itself must be challenged. School reform is not enough. The notion of schooling itself must be challenged.
John Taylor Gatto quotes: You either learn your way towards writing your own script in life, or you unwittingly become an actor in someone else's script. You either learn your way towards writing your own script in life, or you unwittingly become an actor in someone else's script.
John Taylor Gatto quotes: Self-knowledge is the only basis of true knowledge. Self-knowledge is the only basis of true knowledge.
John Taylor Gatto quotes: You can make your own son or daughter one of a kind if you have the time and will to do so; school can only make them part of a You can make your own son or daughter one of a kind if you have the time and will to do so; school can only make them part of a hive, herd or anthill.
John Taylor Gatto quotes: Grades don't measure anything other than your relevant obedience to a manager. Grades don't measure anything other than your relevant obedience to a manager.
John Taylor Gatto quotes: Child labor becomes a label of condemnation in spite of its ancient function as the quickest, most reliable way to human independence - Child labor becomes a label of condemnation in spite of its ancient function as the quickest, most reliable way to human independence -
John Taylor Gatto quotes: Good things happen to the human spirit when it is left alone. Good things happen to the human spirit when it is left alone.
John Taylor Gatto quotes: Why are you so docile when you give up your child to a government agent called a schoolteacher? Why are you so docile when you give up your child to a government agent called a schoolteacher?

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