“School is a twelve-year jail sentence” – John Taylor Gatto
“School is a twelve-year jail sentence where bad habits are the only curriculum truly learned.”
John Taylor Gatto
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John Taylor Gatto on Government Schooling and Family
“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
“Schools teach exactly what they are intended to teach” – John Taylor Gatto
“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.”
John Taylor Gatto
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
Neil Postman: The Ineffectiveness of Daily News
“[M]ost of our daily news is inert, consisting of information that gives us something to talk about but cannot lead to any meaningful action.”
Neil Postman
Neil Postman on Political Impotence and Media
“Voting, we might even say, is the next to last refuge of the politically impotent. The last refuge is, of course, giving your opinion to a pollster, who will get a version of it through a desiccated question, and then will submerge it in a Niagara of similar opinions, and convert them into–what else?–another piece of news. Thus we have here a great loop of impotence: The news elicits from you a variety of opinions about which you can do nothing except to offer them as more news, about which you can do nothing.”
Neil Postman
Global Financial Control by Carroll Quigley
“The powers of financial capitalism had a far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent meetings and conferences.”
Carroll Quigley
Criticism of Banks and Fiat Money by G. Edward Griffin
“And what did the banks do to earn this perpetually flowing river of wealth? Did they lend out their own capital obtained through investment of stockholders? Did they lend out the hard-earned savings of their depositors? No, neither of these were their major source of income. They simply waved the magic wand called fiat money.”
G. Edward Griffin