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John Taylor Gatto Quotes: 6

  • When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling.

  • Although teachers do care and do work very, very hard, the institution is psychopathic-it has no conscience. It rings a bell and the young man in the middle of writing a poem must close his notebook and move to a different cell where he must memorize that humans and monkeys derive from a common ancestor.

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  • Genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us.

  • Self-knowledge is the only basis of true knowledge.

  • 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?

  • 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.