Zitate von John Taylor Gatto

„When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling.“

—  John Taylor Gatto

„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.“

—  John Taylor Gatto

Quelle: Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Education

„Genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us.“

—  John Taylor Gatto

„Self-knowledge is the only basis of true knowledge.“

—  John Taylor Gatto

„In our secular society, school has become the replacement for church, and like church it requires that its teachings must be taken on faith.“

—  John Taylor Gatto

„Shouldn't we also ask ourselves what the consequences are of scrambling to provide the "most" of everything to our children in a world of fast dwindling resources?“

—  John Taylor Gatto

„I've concluded that genius is as common as dirt. We suppress genius because we haven't yet figured out how to manage a population of educated men and women. The solution, I think, is simple and glorious. Let them manage themselves.“

—  John Taylor Gatto

Quelle: Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through The Dark World of Compulsory Schooling

„… good things happen to the human spirit when it is left alone.“

—  John Taylor Gatto

„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.“

—  John Taylor Gatto