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Why, then, are we locking kids up in an involuntary network with strangers for twelve years?
— John Taylor Gatto
It is time that we squarely face the fact that institutional schoolteaching is destructive to children.
— John Taylor Gatto
Nobody gives you an education. If you want one, you have to take it.
— John Taylor Gatto
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
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
When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling.
— John Taylor Gatto
Curiosity has no important place in my work, only conformity.
— John Taylor Gatto
You need experience, adventure, and explorations more than you need algebra!
— John Taylor Gatto
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
Who besides a degraded rabble would voluntarily present itself to be graded and classified like meat? No wonder school is compulsory.
— John Taylor Gatto
It's like a malicious person lifting a photograph from the developing chemicals too early, and then pronouncing the photographer incompetent.
— John Taylor Gatto
There isn't a right way to become educated; there are as many ways as there are fingerprints.
— John Taylor Gatto
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
Genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us.
— 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.
— John Taylor Gatto
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Schools [are] ... institutions monopolizing the daytimes of childhood.
— John Taylor Gatto
Average men and women don't really exist except as a statistical conceit.
— John Taylor Gatto
Teaching is a function, not a profession. Anything with something to offer can teach.
— John Taylor Gatto
Why are you so docile when you give up your child to a government agent called a schoolteacher?
— John Taylor Gatto
It doesn't matter what medium I perform, I just love to perform in general, if it's good work.
— Heather Matarazzo
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
Anyone who is more interested in human beings than in the rules is a threat to the system.
— John Taylor Gatto
The truth is that schools don't really teach anything except how to obey orders.
— John Taylor Gatto
Good things happen to the human spirit when it is left alone.
— John Taylor Gatto
When I was little ... I didn't relate to princesses. I saw Maleficent, and I just thought she was so - she was so elegant.
— Angelina Jolie
I like to be a strategic policy guy.
— Jim DeMint
they might last another year or two,
— Larry McMurtry
I'm going, she said. I love you but you'recrazy, you're doomed. — Charles Bukowski
School reform is not enough. The notion of schooling itself must be challenged.
— John Taylor Gatto
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
Self-knowledge is the only basis of true knowledge.
— John Taylor Gatto
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
Grades don't measure anything other than your relevant obedience to a manager.
— John Taylor Gatto
