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

~John Taylor Gatto

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School reform is not enough. The notion of schooling itself must be challenged.

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For reasons that are both fair and foul - but mostly for fair reasons - we have come under the domain of a scientific-management system whose ambitions are endless. They want to manage every second of our lives, every expenditure that we make. And the schools are the training ground to create a population that's easy to manage.

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In a home school, the kid does 95% of the work. But in a school system, since it's an indoctrination system, a teacher has to do 95% of the work.

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School is a twelve-year jail sentence where bad habits are the only curriculum truly learned. I teach school and win awards doing it. I should know.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Educator

Born: December 15th, 1935

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