John Taylor Gatto Quotes
Top 29 wise famous quotes and sayings by John Taylor Gatto
John Taylor Gatto Famous Quotes & Sayings
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It is time that we squarely face the fact that institutional schoolteaching is destructive to children.
The economy schoolchildren currently expect to live under and serve would not survive a generation of young people trained to think critically.
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.
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.
Who besides a degraded rabble would voluntarily present itself to be graded and classified like meat? No wonder school is compulsory.
It's like a malicious person lifting a photograph from the developing chemicals too early, and then pronouncing the photographer incompetent.
In our secular society, school has become the replacement for church, and like church it requires that its teachings must be taken on faith.
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.
You either learn your way towards writing your own script in life, or you unwittingly become an actor in someone else's script.
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.
Child labor becomes a label of condemnation in spite of its ancient function as the quickest, most reliable way to human independence -