John Taylor Gatto Quotes

• Is there an idea more radical in the history of the human race than turning your children over to total strangers whom you know nothing about, and having those strangers work on your child's mind, out of your sight, for a period of twelve years? Could there be a more radical idea than that? Back in Colonial days in America, if you proposed that kind of idea, they'd burn you at the stake, you mad person! It's a mad idea!

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  Niños, Años, Ideas

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• Cualquiera que sea la educación, debe hacer de ti un individuo único, no un conformista; debe dotarte de un espíritu original con el que afrontar los grandes retos. Debe permitirte encontrar valores que te sirvan de hoja de ruta en la vida; debe hacerte rico espiritualmente, una persona que ame lo que esté haciendo, esté donde esté, esté con quien esté; debe enseñarte lo que es importante, cómo vivir y cómo morir.

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  Aprendizaje, Único, Retos

  John Taylor Gatto (2017). "Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling", p.53, New Society Publishers.

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• Slowly I began to realize that the bells and the confinement, the crazy sequences, the age-segregation, the lack of privacy, the constant surveillance, and all the rest of the national curriculum of schooling were designed exactly as if someone had set out to prevent children from learning how to think and act, to coax them into addiction and dependent behavior.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Children, Crazy, Thinking

  John Taylor Gatto, Thomas Moore (2013). “Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling”, p.19, New Society Publishers

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• O aprendes a escribir tu propio guión en la vida, o te conviertes involuntariamente en actor del guión de otro.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Vida, Escritura, Aprendizaje

  John Taylor Gatto (2017). "Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling", p.9, New Society Publishers.

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• Schools were designed by Horace Mann and Barnard Sears and Harper of the University of Chicago and Thorndyke of Columbia Teachers College and some other men to be instruments of the scientific management of a mass population. Schools are intended to produce through the application of formulae, formulaic human beings whose behavior can be predicted and controlled.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Educación, Profesor, Escuela

  "Por qué las escuelas no educan". Discurso de John Taylor Gatto como profesor del año en la ciudad de New York, www.naturalchild.org. 31 de enero de 1990.

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• 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

  Teaching, Home, Adventure

  "I Quit, I Think," The Wall Street Journal, en.wikiquote.org. July 25, 1991.

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• The primary goal of real education is not to deliver facts but to guide students to the truths that will allow them to take responsibility for their lives.

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  Real, Responsibility, Goal

  John Taylor Gatto (2000). “A Different Kind of Teacher: Solving the Crisis of American Schooling”

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• If you put fleas in a shallow container they jump out. But if you put a lid on the container for just a short time, they hit the lid trying to escape and learn quickly not to jump so high. They give up their quest for freedom. After the lid is removed, the fleas remain imprisond by their own self policing. So it is with life. Most of us let our own fears or the impositions of others imprison us in a world of low expectations.

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  Giving Up, Self, Expectations

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• Me avergüenza que tantos de nosotros no podamos imaginar una forma mejor de hacer las cosas que encerrar a los niños todo el día en celdas en lugar de dejarles crecer conociendo a sus familias, mezclándose con el mundo, asumiendo obligaciones reales, esforzándose por ser independientes y autosuficientes y libres.

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  Niños, Crecer, Real

  John Taylor Gatto (2000). “A Different Kind of Teacher: Solving the Crisis of American Schooling”

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• Una de las primeras cosas que una familia intenta enseñar a sus hijos es la diferencia entre el bien y el mal, lo correcto y lo incorrecto. Una de las primeras cosas que hacen nuestras escuelas es destruir esa distinción.

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  Niños, Aprendizaje, Escuela

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• Grades don't measure anything other than your relevant obedience to a manager.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Educación, Profesor, Escuela

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• There isn't a right way to become educated; there are as many ways as there are fingerprints.

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  Way, Fingerprints, Educated

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• Children learn what they live. Put kids in a class and they will live out their lives in an invisible cage, isolated from their chance at community; interrupt kids with bells and horns all the time and they will learn that nothing is important or worth finishing; ridicule them and they will retreat from human association; shame them and they will find a hundred ways to get even. The habits taught in large-scale organizations are deadly.

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  Children, Kids, Class

  John Taylor Gatto (2017). "Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling", p.53, New Society Publishers.

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• I taught public school for 26 years, but I just can't do it anymore. For years I asked the school board to let me teach a curriculum that doesn't hurt kids, but they always had other fish to fry. If you hear of a job where I don't have to hurt kids to make a living, let me know. The truth is that schools don't really teach anything, but blind obedience.

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  Hurt, Jobs, School

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• Do we really need school? I don't mean education, just forced schooling: six classes a day, five days a week, nine months a year, for twelve years. Is this deadly routine really necessary? And if so, for what? Don't hide behind reading, writing, and arithmetic as a rationale, because 2 million happy homeschoolers have surely put that banal justification to rest.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Education, Teacher, Reading

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• La escolarización gubernamental hizo a la gente más tonta, no más brillante; debilitó a las familias; arruinó la religión formal con su dura exclusión de Dios; grabó en piedra la estructura de clases dividiendo a los niños en clases y poniéndolos unos contra otros; y ha sido la partera de una alarmante concentración de riqueza y poder en manos de una fracción de la comunidad nacional.

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  Education, Children, Hands

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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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  Children, Land, Shelter

  John Taylor Gatto (2017). “Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling”, p.79, New Society Publishers

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• 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.

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  Growing Up, Children, Army

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• 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.

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  Children, Stupid, School

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• The truth is that schools don't really teach anything except how to obey orders.

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  School, Order, Truth Is

  John Taylor Gatto, Thomas Moore (2013). “Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling”, p.30, New Society Publishers

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• Children do not learn in school; they are babysat. It takes maybe 50 hours to teach reading, writing, and arithmetic. After that, students can teach themselves. Mainly what school does is to keep the children off the streets and out of the job market.

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  Empleo, Niños, Lectura

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• Es absurdo y contrario a la vida formar parte de un sistema que te obliga a escuchar a un desconocido leyendo poesía cuando quieres aprender a construir edificios, o a sentarte con un desconocido a discutir sobre la construcción de edificios cuando quieres leer poesía.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Vida, Educación, Profesor

  "Por qué las escuelas no educan". Discurso de John Taylor Gatto como profesor del año en la ciudad de New York, www.naturalchild.org. 31 de enero de 1990.

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• What's gotten in the way of education in the United States is a theory of social engineering that says there is ONE RIGHT WAY to proceed with growing up.

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  Growing Up, Engineering, United States

  John Taylor Gatto, Thomas Moore (2013). “Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling”, p.51, New Society Publishers

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• God was pitched out of forced schooling on his ear after WWII. This wasn't because of any constitutional proscription-there was none that anyone had been able to find in over a century and a half-but because the political state and corporate economy considered the Western spiritual tradition too dangerous a competitor. And it is.

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  Education, Spiritual, Political

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• Teaching is a function, not a profession. Anything with something to offer can teach.

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  Teaching, Function, Profession

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