More quotes by John Taylor Gatto

"Self-knowledge is the only basis of true knowledge."
"Genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us."
"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."