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John Taylor Gatto on Ethics

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Attributed to John Taylor Gatto, entry #133392: "When American schooling stopped being primary for mental development and character training,.. it became a training ground to supply the existing economy with a particular kind of…"

1 Quotes by John Taylor Gatto on Ethics

"When American schooling stopped being primary for mental development and character training,.. it became a training ground to supply the existing economy with a particular kind of labor and customers that it needed. One buried byproduct of this shift was to sabotage free market principles. Because by conditioning children to what is, instead of what could be, it heavily subsidized existed commerce and social political dispositions."

— John Taylor Gatto

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