More quotes by John Taylor Gatto

"When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling."
"Self-knowledge is the only basis of true knowledge."
"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?"
"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."