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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
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John Taylor Gatto
Age: 82 †
Born: 1935
Born: December 15
Died: 2018
Died: October 25
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Genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us.
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The old system where every child was locked away and set into nonstop, daily cut throat competition with every other child for silly prizes called grades is broken beyond repair. If it could be fixed it could have been fixed by now. Good riddance.
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This was once a land where every sane person knew how to build a shelter, grow food, and entertain one another. Now we have been rendered permanent children. It’s the architects of forced schooling who are responsible for that.
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Child labor becomes a label of condemnation in spite of its ancient function as the quickest, most reliable way to human independence
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Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist.
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You need experience, adventure, and explorations more than you need algebra!
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The shocking possibility that dumb people don't exist in sufficient numbers to warrant the millions of careers devoted to tending them will seem incredible to you. Yet that is my central proposition: the mass dumbness which justifies official schooling first had to be dreamed of it isn't real.
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When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling.
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Schools [are]...institutions monopolizing the daytimes of childhood.
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Grades don't measure anything other than your relevant obedience to a manager.
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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.
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Growth and mastery come only to those who vigorously self-direct. Initiating, creating, doing, reflecting, freely associating, enjoying privacy-these are precisely what the structures of schooling are set up to prevent, on one pretext or another.
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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.
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Why are you so docile when you give up your child to a government agent called a schoolteacher?
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Creative work and critical thought, which produces new knowledge, can't be conditioned indeed, conditioning prevents these things from ever happening.
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The economy schoolchildren currently expect to live under and serve would not survive a generation of young people trained to think critically.
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