What did John Taylor Gatto mean by: Self-knowledge is the only basis of true knowledge. - John Taylor Gatto Author Copy
+ There isn’t a right way to become educated; there are as many ways as there are fingerprints. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, John Taylor Gatto, Educated, Fingerprints, 0 - John Taylor Gatto Author
+ I teach how to fit into a world I don’t want to live in. I just can’t do it anymore. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, John Taylor Gatto, School, 0 - John Taylor Gatto Author
+ Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, John Taylor Gatto, Individual, Unique, 0 - John Taylor Gatto Author
+ Nobody gives you an education. If you want one, you have to take it. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, John Taylor Gatto, Inspiration, 0 - John Taylor Gatto Author
+ School is a twelve-year jail sentence where bad habits are the only curriculum truly learned. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, John Taylor Gatto, Jail, School, 0 - John Taylor Gatto Author
+ The truth is that schools don’t really teach anything except how to obey orders. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, John Taylor Gatto, School, Truth Is, 0 - John Taylor Gatto Author
+ Anyone who is more interested in human beings than in the rules is a threat to the system. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, John Taylor Gatto, Human, Threat, 0 - John Taylor Gatto Author
+ Teaching is a function, not a profession. Anything with something to offer can teach. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, John Taylor Gatto, Function, Profession, Teaching, 0 - John Taylor Gatto Author
The constancy of the wise is only the art of keeping disquietude to one’s self. Explain - François de La Rochefoucauld Writer · France
The most amiable people are those who least wound the self-love of others. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge. - Jean Paul Writer · Germany
Our self-love can be resigned to the sacrifice of everything but itself. - Jean-Francois de La Harpe Playwright · France
That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst. Explain - Jean-Paul Sartre Philosopher · France
There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn’t felt that. - Jeanette Winterson Author · England
Writing has to have a great deal of certainty and self-assurance, but it’s not arrogant. - Jeanette Winterson Author · England