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John Taylor Gatto (December 15, 1935 – October 25, 2018) was an American author and school teacher. After teaching for nearly 30 years he authored several books on modern education, criticizing its ideology, history, and consequences.
Oct 29, 2018 · John Taylor Gatto was a teacher, author, and critic of the public education system. He resigned from teaching in 1991 and wrote several books exposing the hidden curriculum and promoting self-directed learning.
- “When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling.” ― John Taylor Gatto.
- “I've noticed a fascinating phenomenon in my thirty years of teaching: schools and schooling are increasingly irrelevant to the great enterprises of the planet.
- “Children learn what they live. Put kids in a class and they will live out their lives in an invisible cage, isolated from their chance at community; interrupt kids with bells and horns all the time and they will learn that nothing is important or worth finishing; ridicule them and they will retreat from human association; shame them and they will find a hundred ways to get even.
- “Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist; it should furnish you with an original spirit with which to tackle the big challenges; it should allow you to find values which will be your roadmap through life; it should make you spiritually rich, a person who loves whatever you are doing, wherever you are, whomever you are with; it should teach you what is important, how to live and how to die.”
John Taylor Gatto has 27 books on Goodreads with 57193 ratings. John Taylor Gatto’s most popular book is Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compul...
Feb 1, 2002 · Thirty years in New York City’s public schools led John Gatto to the sad conclusion that compulsory schooling does little but teach young people to follow orders like cogs in an industrial machine. This second edition describes the wide-spread impact of the book and Gatto’s "guerrilla teaching."
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Watch videos of John Taylor Gatto, the State Teacher of the Year (1991, NY), who criticizes forced schooling and shares his insights on education. Learn from his lectures, interviews and quotes on topics such as Pareto, Mosca, Franklin and more.
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Sep 22, 2022 · After teaching in New York City public schools for 30 years–twice winning State Teacher of the Year–John Taylor Gatto no longer wanted “to hurt kids to make a living.” ...more.
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