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

Grades don't measure anything other than your relevant obedience to a manager.

- 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…

- 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 …

- 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…

- 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…

- 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

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