More quotes by John Taylor Gatto

"When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling."
"I urge you to examine in your own mind the assumptions which must lay behind using the police power to insist that once-sovereign spirits have no choice but to submit to being schooled by strangers."
"Shouldn't we also ask ourselves what the consequences are of scrambling to provide the "most"of everything to our children in a world of fast dwindling resources?"
"Self-knowledge is the only basis of true knowledge."