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John Taylor Gatto on Education

1935–2018 United States

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4 quotes

Mass education cannot work to produce a fair society because its daily practice is practice in rigged competition, suppression and intimidation.

Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling (1992)

Schooling is organized by command and control from without; education is self-organized from within…

Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling (2008)

What's gotten in the way of education in the United States is a theory of social engineering that says there is one right way to proceed with growing up.

Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling (1992)

The primary goal of real education is not to deliver facts but to guide students to the truths that will allow them to take responsibility for their lives.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: John Taylor Gatto (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.