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 More Quotes by John Taylor Gatto More Quotes From John Taylor Gatto Schools [are]...institutions monopolizing the daytimes of childhood. John Taylor Gatto institutions childhood school Teaching is a function, not a profession. Anything with something to offer can teach. John Taylor Gatto profession function teaching Children allowed to take responsibility and given a serious part in the larger world are always superior to those merely permitted to play and be passive. John Taylor Gatto responsibility play children When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling. John Taylor Gatto schooling turns free-will I've noticed a fascinating phenomenon in my twenty-five years of teaching - that schools and schooling are increasingly irrelevant to the great enterprises of the planet. No one believes anymore that scientists are trained in science classes or politicians in civics classes or poets in English classes. The truth is that schools don't really teach anything except how to obey orders. John Taylor Gatto teaching believe school 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 learning exercise school 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 acquiring-things passion important It's been a horrifying academic secret for decades that the children who walk away with the highest formal honors, the valedictorians and National Merit Scholars, have a horrendous performance record in later life. John Taylor Gatto honor secret children You can make your own son or daughter one of a kind if you have the time and will to do so; school can only make them part of a hive, herd or anthill. John Taylor Gatto daughter school son 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 healthy community teaching 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 sound ideas school 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? John Taylor Gatto resources children world By bells and many other similar techniques they (schools) teach that John Taylor Gatto errors children school I don’t think we’ll get rid of schools any time soon, certainly not in my lifetime, but if we’re going to change what’s rapidly becoming a disaster of ignorance, we need to realize that the institution “schools” very well, but it does not “educate”; that’s inherent in the design of the thing. It’s not the fault of bad teachers or too little money spent. It’s just impossible for education and schooling to be the same thing. John Taylor Gatto ignorance teacher school 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 learning long school 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. John Taylor Gatto police choices mind The truth is that schools don't really teach anything except how to obey orders. John Taylor Gatto truth-is order school Why are you so docile when you give up your child to a government agent called a schoolteacher? John Taylor Gatto giving-up government children The economy schoolchildren currently expect to live under and serve would not survive a generation of young people trained to think critically. John Taylor Gatto generations people thinking A lot of the strings that hold us like puppets are really inventions of our own minds. I'm not saying that there aren't armies and police and various ways to punish deviants, but there isn't any way to punish a large number of deviants. It's too expensive to even try. So, the solution is to colonize the minds of children as they're growing up, so that they become their own police, and to report on others who are deviating. John Taylor Gatto growing-up army children
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