What did John Taylor Gatto mean by: Teaching is a function, not a profession. Anything with something to offer can teach. - John Taylor Gatto Author Copy
+ You need experience, adventure, and explorations more than you need algebra! Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, John Taylor Gatto, Adventure, Exploration, 0 - John Taylor Gatto Author
+ Self-knowledge is the only basis of true knowledge. Feraz Zeid, September 4, 2023December 24, 2023, John Taylor Gatto, Bases, Know Yourself, Self, 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
+ …good things happen to the human spirit when it is left alone. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, John Taylor Gatto, Good Things, Inspiration, Spirit, 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
+ 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
+ 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
+ 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’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
I was always an artist. I was a broker to earn a living, but I was always thinking about my art. - Jeff Koons Artist · USA
The amount of psychology which is necessary to all teachers need not be very great. - William James Philosopher and psychologist · USA
Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
What a teacher needs to know about psychology “might almost be written on the palm of one’s hand.” - William James Philosopher and psychologist · USA
Discipline is positive. Discipline is training. Teaching and discipline are inseparable. - Jean Fleming
Teaching means creating situations where structures can be discovered. Explain - Jean Piaget Psychologist · Switzerland
