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...good things happen to the human spirit when it is left alone. (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 (John Taylor Gatto Quotes)
For reasons that are both fair and foul - but mostly for fair reasons - we have come under the domain of a scientific-management system whose ambitions are endless. They want to manage every second of our lives, every expenditure that we make. And the schools are the training ground to create a population that’s easy to manage (John Taylor Gatto Quotes)
School presents daily exercises in dis-association. It forces unwelcome associations on most of its prisoners. It sets petty, meaningless competitions in motion on a daily basis, pitting potential associates against one another in contests for praise and other worthless prizes (John Taylor Gatto Quotes)
School is the first impression children get of organized society. Like most first impressions it is the lasting one. Life is dull and stupid, only Coke provides relief. And other products, too, of course (John Taylor Gatto Quotes)
Is it any wonder that Socrates was outraged at the accusation he took money to teach? Even then, philosophers saw clearly the inevitable direction the professionalization of teaching would take, that of pre-empting the teaching function, which, in a healthy community, belongs to everyone (John Taylor Gatto Quotes)
If you live in a material universe where acquiring things is very important to you, then family is an absolute deterrent to maintaining that sort of a world, because family involves values like affection, and sympathy, and passion, and types of pleasure that lead nowhere in a material sense (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. (John Taylor Gatto Quotes)
Creative work and critical thought, which produces new knowledge, can’t be conditioned; indeed, conditioning prevents these things from ever happening. (John Taylor Gatto Quotes)
Schools stifle family originality by appropriating the critical time needed for any sound idea of family to develop - then they blame the family for its failure to be a family. (John Taylor Gatto Quotes)
The shocking possibility that dumb people don’t exist in sufficient numbers to warrant the millions of careers devoted to tending them will seem incredible to you. Yet that is my central proposition: the mass dumbness which justifies official schooling first had to be dreamed of; it isn’t real. (John Taylor Gatto Quotes)
Looking back on a 30-year teaching career full of rewards and prizes, somehow I can’t completely believe that I spent my time on earth institutionalized; I can’t believe that centralized schooling is allowed to exist at all as a gigantic indoctrination and sorting machine, robbing people of their children. Did it really happen? Was this my life? God help me. (John Taylor Gatto Quotes)
Genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us (John Taylor Gatto Quotes)
Grades don’t measure anything other than your relevant obedience to a manager (John Taylor Gatto Quotes)
Nobody gives you an education. If you want one, you have to take it (John Taylor Gatto Quotes)
You need experience, adventure, and explorations more than you need algebra! (John Taylor Gatto Quotes)
Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist (John Taylor Gatto Quotes)
When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling (John Taylor Gatto Quotes)
... good things happen to the human spirit when it is left alone (John Taylor Gatto Quotes)
Curiosity has no important place in my work, only conformity (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 (John Taylor Gatto Quotes)
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 (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 (John Taylor Gatto Quotes)
I’ve concluded that genius is as common as dirt. We suppress genius because we haven’t yet figured out how to manage a population of educated men and women. The solution, I think, is simple and glorious. Let them manage themselves (John Taylor Gatto Quotes)
The old system where every child was locked away and set into nonstop, daily cut throat competition with every other child for silly prizes called grades is broken beyond repair. If it could be fixed it could have been fixed by now. Good riddance (John Taylor Gatto Quotes)
Creative work and critical thought, which produces new knowledge, can’t be conditioned; indeed, conditioning prevents these things from ever happening (John Taylor Gatto Quotes)
One of the first things a family tries to teach its children is the difference between good and evil, right and wrong. One of the first things our schools do is destroy that distinction (John Taylor Gatto Quotes)
School is about learning to wait your turn, however long it takes to come, if ever. And how to submit with a show of enthusiasm to the judgment of strangers, even if they are wrong, even if your enthusiasm is phony (John Taylor Gatto Quotes)
Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist; it should furnish you with an original spirit with which to tackle the big challenges. It should allow you to find values which will be your road map through life; it should make you spiritually rich, a person who loves whatever you are doing, wherever you are, whomever you are with; it should teach you what is important, how to live and how to die (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 (John Taylor Gatto Quotes)
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