What did John Taylor Gatto mean by: When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling. - John Taylor Gatto Author Copy
+ 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
+ …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
+ 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
+ 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
+ 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
+ Genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, John Taylor Gatto, Education, Learn, 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
+ 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
An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will. - Willem de Kooning Painter · Netherlands
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race. - William James Philosopher and psychologist · USA
I’m going to kill that god of yours, next. Then we’ll see what you can do, and what you can’t. - Janet Morris Author · USA
If the effort also is predestined, it is not the less our effort, made of our free will. - Albert Pike Attorney · USA
It is what we are forced to do that forms our character, not what we do of our own free will. - Alberto Moravia Novelist · Italy