John Taylor Gatto Quote on Compulsory Schooling

„The premise upon which mass compulsion schooling is based is dead wrong. It tries to shoehorn every style, culture, and personality into one ugly boot that fits nobody.“

John Taylor GattoJohn Taylor Gatto criticizes compulsory schooling and an education system that forces diverse styles, cultures, and personalities into one mold.
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John Taylor Gatto was an American teacher and school critic known for his critique of the traditional school system.

John Taylor Gatto criticizes compulsory standardized schooling and its lack of regard for individual personalities.


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John Taylor Gatto quote about compulsory schooling and individuality

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.

John Taylor Gatto quote about school criticism, competition, and gradesCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The old system where every child was locked away and set into nonstop, daily cut throat competition with every other child for silly prizes called grades is broken beyond repair. If it could be fixed it could have been fixed by now. Good riddance." John Taylor Gatto
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Quote by John Taylor Gatto revealing the hidden lessons taught by school systemsCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The well-known school critic and teacher John Taylor Gatto identifies seven lessons as the real teachings of school: Confusing the student Awakening class consciousness Teaching indifference Creating intellectual and emotional dependence Weakening self-confidence and Accustoming students to constant supervision. "School condemns most people to being lowly building blocks in a pyramidal social model. In collaboration with television, schooling robs children of the time they need to develop a unique personality, thereby preventing them from growing up. School has replaced the ‘family curriculum’ with the components of privacy, independence, and social life. In its place has come the factory school, a prison for children's souls that fragments social relationships into networks and cannot be survived without damage." "It replaces the intellectual growth of children with the violent creation of subjects. It kills the curiosity of its subjects, places them in a dense fog of confusion from which many will never be able to free themselves in their entire lives, it blocks their path to individual freedom and denies them the fulfillment that comes with a free spirit."" John Taylor Gatto
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Quote by Kim Kiyosaki about how the school system affects learning and children's spiritCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"In the school system, they don’t want us to learn about money, because they just want to pump out good employees that do what they’re told. If you look at school, it’s opposite of what it takes to be successful. In real life: ‘don’t make a mistake’, ‘do as you’re told’, ‘take tests by yourself’, ‘don’t cooperate’, ‘do it by yourself’, ‘do it alone’, ‘there’s only one right answer’… No, there’s tons of answers to a problem. So you come out of school scared to death of making a mistake, you do everything on your own, you don’t cooperate, there’s no synergy, there’s no brainstorming. So I think, people come out of school paralyzed. I think the school system is criminal in that it kills a child’s spirit of learning. A child goes into school all excited, ‘Oh, I’m gonna learn and it’s gonna be great’, and then, the teacher says ‘Sit down and shut up, don’t talk, we don’t care what you’re interested in’" Kim Kiyosaki
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Quote by Henry Louis Mencken about the true aim of public educationCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The most erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence, and so make them fit to discharge the duties of citizenship in an enlightened and independent manner. Nothing could be further from the truth. The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality. That is its aim in the United States, whatever the pretensions of politicians, pedagogues and other such mountebanks, and that is its aim everywhere else." Henry Louis Mencken
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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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