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Nobody Gives You An Education. If You Want One, You Have To Take It.
-John Taylor Gatto
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Nobody Gives You An Education. If You
John Taylor Gatto
Nobody Gives You An Education. If You Want One, You Have To Take It.
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I Don’t Think We’ll Get Rid Of Schools Any Time Soon, Certainly Not In My Lifetime, But If We’re Going To Change What’s Rapidly Becoming A Disaster Of Ignorance, We Need To Realize That The Institution “schools” Very Well, But It Does Not “educate”; That’s Inherent In The Design Of The Thing. It’s Not The Fault Of Bad Teachers Or Too Little Money Spent. It’s Just Impossible For Education And Schooling To Be The Same Thing.
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By Bells And Many Other Similar Techniques They (schools) Teach That Nothing Is Worth Finishing. The Gross Error Of This Is Progressive: If Nothing Is Worth Finishing Then By Extension Nothing Is Worth Starting Either. Few Children Are So Thick-skulled They Miss The Point.
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