“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.”
John Taylor Gatto
“School is the first impression children get of organized society. Like most first impressions it is the lasting one. Life is dull and stupid, only Coke provides relief. And other products, too, of course.”
John Taylor Gatto
“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.”
John Taylor Gatto
“Who besides a degraded rabble would voluntarily present itself to be graded and classified like meat? No wonder school is compulsory.”
John Taylor Gatto
“Government schooling is the most radical adventure in history. It kills the family by monopolizing the best times of childhood and by teaching disrespect for home and parents….”
John Taylor Gatto
“Compulsory public education is child abuse, fuck public schools.”
Harry P.
I’m 65. Went to government school. A horribly dull, boring experience. Now school has also become a brain wash: GLTB / social justice / anti-gun / etc.
We homeschooled our daughter.