163 Quotes by John Taylor Gatto

A large fraction of our total economy has grown up around providing service and counseling to inadequate people -- and inadequate people are the main product of government compulsion schools.

Regimentation, methodization, systematization, standardization, organization, coordination, disciplined arrangements, conformity -- these things are at the very heart of our national state policies, and are the poison that has killed our families and left individual survivors in a numbed, angry, nearly hysterical condition.

It's like a malicious person lifting a photograph from the developing chemicals too early, and then pronouncing the photographer incompetent.

We live together, you and I, in a dark time when all official history is propaganda.

Real books, unlike schoolbooks, can’t be standardized. They are eccentric; no book fits everyone.

Without clear awareness of the short arc of life, nothing means very much.

The most important things worth knowing are innate in you already.

School reform is not enough. The notion of schooling itself must be challenged.

Child labor becomes a label of condemnation in spite of its ancient function as the quickest, most reliable way to human independence