Quotes by : John Taylor Gatto

Genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us.

Self-knowledge is the only basis of true knowledge.

In a home school, the kid does 95% of the work. But in a school system, since it's an indoctrination....

Although teachers do care and do work very, very hard, the institution is psychopathic-it has no conscience.....

Think of the things killing us as a nation: narcotic drugs, brainless competition, dishonesty, greed,....

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

People who read too many books get quirky. We can't have too much eccentricity or it would bankrupt us.....

Children learn what they live. Put kids in a class and they will live out their lives in an invisible....

I urge you to examine in your own mind the assumptions which must lay behind using the police power to....

I feel ashamed that so many of us cannot imagine a better way to do things than locking children up all....