Home / Authors / John Taylor Gatto

John Taylor Gatto

John Taylor Gatto Quotes

Author

John Taylor Gatto is an American author known for his critical analysis of the educational system. Born on December 15, 1935, he is a former public school teacher who gained national attention for refusing to comply with bureaucratic regulations in education. Gatto's work emphasizes the importance of educational freedom and personal responsibility.

Filter quotes by topic

All School Children Education Schooling Ifs Learning Teach Way People Teacher Humans Teaching World Community Society Thinking Years Wells Critique Government

Famous John Taylor Gatto Quotes

“The logic of the school-mind is that it is better to leave school with a tool kit of superficial jargon derived from economics, sociology, natural science, and so on than with one genuine enthusiasm. But quality in education entails learning about something in depth.”

School Education Society Critique Homeschooling Discrouse

Book:Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

Source: Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

“By redirecting the focus of our lives from families and communities to institutions and networks, we, in effect, anoint a machine our king.”

Community Family Society Discourse Critique Homeschooling Networks Mass Schooling

Book:Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

Source: Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

“Networks like schools are not communities, just as school training is not education.”

Community Education Family Society Discourse Critique Schools Networks

Book:Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

Source: Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

“A combination of television and the stresses peculiar to two-income or single-parent families has swallowed up most of what used to be family time as well. Our kids have no time left to grow up fully human and only thin-soil wastelands to do it in.”

Children Society Youth Television Discourse Upbringing Critique Homeschooling Mass Schooling

Book:Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

Source: Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

“Is it possible that those who sit atop the social bell curve represent the worst of evolution’s products, not its best? Have the fools among us who just don’t get it risen up and taken command?”

Education Society Psychopath Ellite

Book:The Underground History of American Education: An Intimate Investigation Into the Prison of Modern Schooling

Source: The Underground History of American Education: An Intimate Investigation Into the Prison of Modern Schooling

“Massified populations cannot exercise self-control very well since they depend on constant oversight to behave as required. When external controls are removed, anything becomes possible.”

Society Self Control Oversight Behaving

Book:The Underground History of American Education: An Intimate Investigation Into the Prison of Modern Schooling

Source: The Underground History of American Education: An Intimate Investigation Into the Prison of Modern Schooling

“School is the first impression children get of organized society. Like most first impressions it is the lasting one. Life is dull and stupid, only Coke provides relief. And other products, too, of course.”

Firsts Children School Life Is Courses Society Stupid Products Impression Organized Dull Relief Lasting Coke Schools And Education First Impression

Author:John Taylor Gatto