It is absurd and anti-life to be part of a system that compels you to listen to a stranger reading poetry when you want to learn to construct buildings, or to sit with a stranger discussing the construction of buildings when you want to read poetry.
Schools were designed by Horace Mann and Barnard Sears and Harper of the University of Chicago and Thorndyke of Columbia Teachers College and some ot… - John Taylor Gatto
Schools were designed by Horace Mann and Barnard Sears and Harper of the University of Chicago and Thorndyke of Columbia Teachers College and some ot…
- John Taylor Gatto
If you put fleas in a shallow container they jump out. But if you put a lid on the container for just a short time, they hit the lid trying to escape… - John Taylor Gatto
If you put fleas in a shallow container they jump out. But if you put a lid on the container for just a short time, they hit the lid trying to escape…
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 sc… - John Taylor Gatto
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 sc…
Grades don't measure anything other than your relevant obedience to a manager. - John Taylor Gatto
Grades don't measure anything other than your relevant obedience to a manager.
The primary goal of real education is not to deliver facts but to guide students to the truths that will allow them to take responsibility for their … - John Taylor Gatto
The primary goal of real education is not to deliver facts but to guide students to the truths that will allow them to take responsibility for their …
Government schooling is the most radical adventure in history. It kills the family by monopolizing the best times of childhood and by teaching disres… - John Taylor Gatto
Government schooling is the most radical adventure in history. It kills the family by monopolizing the best times of childhood and by teaching disres…
Do we really need school? I don't mean education, just forced schooling: six classes a day, five days a week, nine months a year, for twelve years. I… - John Taylor Gatto
Do we really need school? I don't mean education, just forced schooling: six classes a day, five days a week, nine months a year, for twelve years. I…
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
You either learn your way towards writing your own script in life, or you unwittingly become an actor in someone else's script.
Slowly I began to realize that the bells and the confinement, the crazy sequences, the age-segregation, the lack of privacy, the constant surveillanc… - John Taylor Gatto
Slowly I began to realize that the bells and the confinement, the crazy sequences, the age-segregation, the lack of privacy, the constant surveillanc…
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