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.

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  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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

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  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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• 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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• I feel ashamed that so many of us cannot imagine a better way to do things than locking children up all day in cells instead of letting them grow up knowing their families, mingling with the world, assuming real obligations, striving to be independent and self-reliant and free.

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

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  Educación, Profesor, Escuela

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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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• 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.

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  Education, Teacher, Reading

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Who besides a degraded rabble would voluntarily present itself to be graded and classified like meat? No wonder school is compulsory.

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  School, Meat, Wonder

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• Our cultural dilemma has nothing to do with children who don't read very well. It lies instead in the difficulty of finding a way to restore meaning and purpose to modern life.

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  Children, Lying, Modern Life

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

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• He llegado a la conclusión de que el genio es tan común como la suciedad. Suprimimos la genialidad porque aún no hemos descubierto cómo gestionar una población de hombres y mujeres cultos. La solución, creo, es simple y gloriosa. Dejemos que se gestionen a sí mismos.

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  Aprender, Hombres, Pensar

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• Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist.

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  Unique, Individual, Should

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

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• Schools teach exactly what they are intended to teach and they do it well: how to be a good Egyptian and remain in your place in the pyramid.

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  School, Pyramids, Egyptian

  John Taylor Gatto, Thomas Moore (2013). “Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling”, p.27, New Society Publishers

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• Como escritor, político, científico y hombre de negocios, [Ben] Franklin tuvo pocos iguales entre los educados de su época, aunque dejó la escuela a los diez años. (...) Chicos como Andrew Carnegie, que suplicó a su madre que no le enviara a la escuela y que iba camino de la inmortalidad y la fortuna a los trece años, hoy serían remitidos a terapia psicológica; Thomas Edison se encontraría en educación especial hasta que su peculiar genio hubiera sido suficientemente domado.

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  Mother, School, Boys

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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.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Growing Up, Children, Army

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