John Taylor Gatto quotes - page 2

A large fraction of our total economy has grown up around providing service and counseling to inadequate people-and inadequate people are the main product of government compulsion schools. (John Taylor Gatto)
What's gotten in the way of education in the United States is a theory of social engineering that says there is ONE RIGHT WAY to proceed with growing up. View quote
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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. View quote
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I urge you to examine in your own mind the assumptions which must lay behind using the police power to insist that once-sovereign spirits have no choice but to submit to being schooled by strangers. View quote
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The truth is that schools don't really teach anything except how to obey orders. View quote
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Why are you so docile when you give up your child to a government agent called a schoolteacher? View quote
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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. View quote
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School is a twelve-year jail sentence where bad habits are the only curriculum truly learned. View quote
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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. View quote
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Schools [are]...institutions monopolizing the daytimes of childhood. View quote
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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)
Shouldn't we also ask ourselves what the consequences are of scrambling to provide the "most" of everything to our children in a world of fast dwindling resources? View quote
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