Grades don't measure anything other than your relevant obedience to a manager.

- John Taylor Gatto
More Quotes By John Taylor Gatto
- Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist; it should furnish you...
- There isn’t a right way to become educated; there are as many ways as there are fingerprints.
- Is there an idea more radical in the history of the human race than turning your children over...
- It is absurd and anti-life to be part of a system that compels you to listen to a...
- You either learn your way towards writing your own script in life, or you unwittingly become an actor...
- Do we really need school? I don’t mean education, just forced schooling: six classes a day, five days...
- Children learn what they live. Put kids in a class and they will live out their lives in...
- Schools were designed by Horace Mann and Barnard Sears and Harper of the University of Chicago and Thorndyke...
- The primary goal of real education is not to deliver facts but to guide students to the truths...
- One of the first things a family tries to teach its children is the difference between good and...
- Although teachers do care and do work very, very hard, the institution is psychopathic-it has no conscience. It...
- Government schooling is the most radical adventure in history. It kills the family by monopolizing the best times...
- You need experience, adventure, and explorations more than you need algebra!
- Government schooling made people dumber, not brighter; made families weaker; ruined formal religion with its hard-sell exclusion of...
- If you put fleas in a shallow container they jump out. But if you put a lid on...
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