I teach how to fit into a world I don't want to live in. I just can't do it anymore.
John Taylor GattoIn 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 GattoSchool is a twelve-year jail sentence where bad habits are the only curriculum truly learned.
John Taylor GattoTeaching is a function, not a profession. Anything with something to offer can teach.
John Taylor GattoIt was never factually true that young people learn to read or do arithmetic primarily by being taught these things. These things are learned, but not really taught at all. Over-teaching interferes with learning, although the few who survive it may well come to imagine it was by an act of teaching.
John Taylor Gatto