Compulsury Education

Who besides a degraded rabble would voluntarily present itself to be graded and classified like meat? No wonder school is compulsory.

John Taylor Gatto (The Underground History of American Education, 2000)

Complusive Educational anti-structures

Growth and mastery come only to those who vigorously self-direct. Initiating, creating, doing, reflecting, freely associating, enjoying privacy – these are precisely what the structures of schooling are set up to prevent, on one pretext or another.

 John Taylor Gatto (The Underground History of American Education, 2000)

First Impression

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.

 John Taylor Gatto (The Underground History of American Education, 2000)