Influence of the Zeitgeist – Bernardo Kastrup
“Indeed, it is nearly impossible for any person inserted in a modern cultural context to escape the haze of the zeitgeist and develop a truly unbiased, critical, and personal worldview.”
Bernardo Kastrup
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Critical Thinking and the Economic System – John Taylor Gatto
“The economy schoolchildren currently expect to live under and serve would not survive a generation of young people trained to think critically.”
John Taylor Gatto
You Are Already That Which You Want to Be – Neville Goddard
“You are already that which you want to be, and your refusal to believe this is the only reason you do not see it.”
Neville Goddard
John Taylor Gatto on Schooling and Indoctrination
“Looking back on a 30-year teaching career full of rewards and prizes, somehow I can’t completely believe that I spent my time on earth institutionalized; I can’t believe that centralized schooling is allowed to exist at all as a gigantic indoctrination and sorting machine, robbing people of their children. Did it really happen? Was this my life? God help me.”
John Taylor Gatto
“Grades Don’t Measure Anything” – Quote by John Taylor Gatto
“Grades don’t measure anything other than your relevant obedience to a manager.”
John Taylor Gatto
Quote About Education and Individuality by John Taylor Gatto
“Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist.”
John Taylor Gatto
John Taylor Gatto Quote on Self-Limitation and Expectations
“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.”
John Taylor Gatto
“There’s nothing that does so much harm as good intentions” – Milton Friedman
“There’s nothing that does so much harm as good intentions.”
Milton Friedman
John Taylor Gatto on Schooling and Exceptional Talent
“As a writer, politician, scientist, and businessman, [Ben] Franklin had few equals among the educated of his day-though he left school at ten. (…)Boys like Andrew Carnegie who begged his mother not to send him to school and was well on his way to immortality and fortune at the age of thirteen, would be referred today for psychological counseling; Thomas Edison would find himself in Special Ed until his peculiar genius had been sufficiently tamed.”
John Taylor Gatto
“The Great Advances of Civilization” – Quote by Milton Friedman
“The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.”
Milton Friedman