John Taylor Gatto

"How can you expect to be unique if every minute you draw models from other people & the shadows of other people drawn from television?" #JG

"We have to demand that new voices & new ideas get a hearing, my ideas & yours." - http://JohnTaylorGatto.com  #EdChat #EdOptions #Unschooling

"our society is disintegrating, & in such a society, the only successful people are self-reliant, confident, & individualistic" - #JohnGatto

"It's a national disease, this dependency and aimlessness, and I think schooling and television and lessons ... has a lot to do with it."

"we need to realize that the school institution "schools" very well, but it does not "educate" - that's inherent in the design of the thing"

subsidizing any group who wanted to open a school to do so we would get a pleasant intellectual surprise, I think. - http://JohnTaylorGatto.com 

parents with kids to educate & spent the other half on free libraries, on underwriting apprenticeships for every young person, and on...

Give me a minute to be a visionary. If we closed the govt schools, divided half the tax money currently spent on these places among the..

"School is like a hospital where you go to get hurt." - http://JohnTaylorGatto.com  #EdChat #EdTruth #EdOptions #SchoolChoice #OptOut

"modern #education...abandons & neglects the whole #classical heritage of the great works of #great individuals" - http://JohnTaylorGatto.com 

"most school people are just like you and me, they don't really understand the complex nature of what it is they are doing" - JTG #teachers

a monumental threat to the school empire on all its level that many safeguards have been set up to see that it does not happen #SelfTeaching

Teaching kids to teach themselves, a principle..constituted 75% of my success & which has been practiced by good parents all through history

A strong self-image comes from four reliable sources: a strong #family, a strong #culture, a strong #religion, and a strong work #tradition

and on and on, together with their political friends in state legislatures to ever surrender the #monopoly structure of govt #schools easily

safeguards work automatically, through attendance laws, prepared curricula, fixed sequences, etc., so they require almost no human attention

There is too much $$$ locked up in teaching this way for the school establishment & its invisible outriggers in the teacher-college business

"Consider your own fingerprint, unlike any on earth, your unique signature" - http://JohnTaylorGatto.com  #Unique #Unschooling #Homeschooling