John Taylor Gatto Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by John Taylor Gatto:

Grades don't measure anything other than your relevant obedience to a manager.
~John Taylor Gatto


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School reform is not enough. The notion of schooling itself must be challenged.
~John Taylor Gatto


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For reasons that are both fair and foul - but mostly for fair reasons - we have come under the domain of a scientific-management system whose ambitions are endless. They want to manage every second of our lives, every expenditure that we make. And the schools are the training ground to create a population that's easy to manage.
~John Taylor Gatto


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In a home school, the kid does 95% of the work. But in a school system, since it's an indoctrination system, a teacher has to do 95% of the work.
~John Taylor Gatto


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/john-taylor-gatto-quotes/#fa017251

School is a twelve-year jail sentence where bad habits are the only curriculum truly learned. I teach school and win awards doing it. I should know.
~John Taylor Gatto


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/john-taylor-gatto-quotes/#7fe412ce

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