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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
School reform is not enough. The notion of schooling itself must be challenged. John Taylor Gatto Read Quote
Grades don’t measure anything other than your relevant obedience to a manager. John Taylor Gatto Read Quote
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 Read Quote
