“I Just Can’t Do It Anymore” – Quote by John Taylor Gatto

„I teach how to fit into a world I don't want to live in. I just can't do it anymore.“

John Taylor GattoJohn Taylor Gatto criticizes an education system that teaches conformity and makes individual development more difficult.
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John Taylor Gatto was an American teacher and school critic known for his critique of the traditional school system.

This quote by John Taylor Gatto expresses his fundamental criticism of an education system that prioritizes conformity over individual development.


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John Taylor Gatto (1935–2018) was an award-winning American teacher, author, and critic of the public school system. He was known for his sharp critique of traditional schools and advocated for alternative educational approaches. Gatto questioned the mechanisms and goals of the schooling system and promoted self-directed learning.

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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." John Taylor Gatto
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"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
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"I've noticed a fascinating phenomenon in my twenty-five years of teaching - that schools and schooling are increasingly irrelevant to the great enterprises of the planet. No one believes anymore that scientists are trained in science classes or politicians in civics classes or poets in English classes. The truth is that schools don't really teach anything except how to obey orders." John Taylor Gatto
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John Taylor Gatto quote about children, education, and the habits taught by large-scale organizationsCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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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." John Taylor Gatto
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"Ideally, every child throughout their entire schooling should be repeatedly told: "You are being indoctrinated. We have yet to develop an education system that is not an indoctrination system. We are sorry, but this is the best we can do. What is taught here is a mixture of common prejudices and the decisions of this particular culture. The slightest glance at history shows how unstable these must be. You are taught by people who were able to fit into a thought pattern set by their predecessors. It is a self-sustaining system. Those among you who are more robust and individual than others are encouraged to leave the classroom and find ways to educate yourselves – to form your own judgments. Those who stay must constantly remember that they are being shaped and patterned to fit the narrow and special needs of this particular society."" Doris Lessing
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