Think of the things killing us as a nation: narcotic drugs, brainless competition, dishonesty, greed, recreational sex, the pornography of violence, gambling, alcohol, and the worst pornography of all -- lives devoted to buying things, accumulation as a philosophy -- all of these are addictions of dependent personalities. That is what our brand of schooling must inevitably produce. John Taylor Gatto
Because I trust in the ever-changing climate of the heart. (At least, today I feel that way.) I think it is necessary to have many experiences for the sake of feeling something; for the sake of being challenged, and for the sake of being expressive,...
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Jason Mraz
The past has no power over the present moment.
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Eckhart Tolle
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
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Confucius
Often, it’s not about becoming a new person, but becoming the person you were meant to be, and already are, but don’t know how to be.
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Heath L. Buckmaster
Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.
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John Lubbock
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.
Genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us.
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?
Although teachers do care and do work very, very hard, the institution is psychopathic-it has no conscience. It rings a bell and the young man in the middle of writing a poem must close his notebook and move to a different cell where he must...
