John Taylor Gatto on School and Church

„In our secular society, school has become the replacement for church, and like church it requires that its teachings must be taken on faith.“

John Taylor GattoJohn Taylor Gatto compares school with the church and questions its teachings and role in secular society.
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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 critiques the role of school in a secular society by comparing it with the institution of the church.


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John Taylor Gatto quote about school becoming a replacement for church

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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"God was pitched out of forced schooling on his ear after WWII. This wasn't because of any constitutional proscription-there was none that anyone had been able to find in over a century and a half-but because the political state and corporate economy considered the Western spiritual tradition too dangerous a competitor. And it is." John Taylor Gatto
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Inspirational quote about school and state control by Walter BorgiusCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"School is a sophisticated means of control by the state, created (or usurped from similar approaches by competing entities—churches, cities, private individuals) to accustom all citizens to obedience from childhood, to instill in them the suggestion of the necessity of the state, to nip any idea of emancipation in the bud, to steer the development of their thinking into well-maintained channels, and to drill them into comfortably governable, humble subjects." Walter Borgius
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Quote on education and indoctrination by Doris LessingCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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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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"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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