John Taylor Gatto on Justice
Browse 3 quotations attributed to John Taylor Gatto, catalogued under justice, with dates where available.
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Attributed to John Taylor Gatto, entry #29726: "Aristotle saw, a long time ago, that fully participating in a complex range of human affairs was the only way to become fully human."
Attributed to John Taylor Gatto, entry #149850: "I’ve taught public school for 26 years but I just can’t do it anymore. For years I asked the local school board and superintendent to let me teach a curriculum that doesn’t hurt k…"
3 Quotes by John Taylor Gatto on Justice
"Aristotle saw, a long time ago, that fully participating in a complex range of human affairs was the only way to become fully human."
"I’ve taught public school for 26 years but I just can’t do it anymore. For years I asked the local school board and superintendent to let me teach a curriculum that doesn’t hurt kids, but they had other fish to fry. So I’m going to quit, I think. I’ve come slowly to understand what it is I really teach: A curriculum of confusion, class position, arbitrary justice, vulgarity, rudeness, disrespect for privacy, indifference to quality, and utter dependency. I teach how to fit into a world I don’t want to live in."
"I just can’t do it anymore. I can’t train children to wait to be told what to do; I can’t train people to drop what they are doing when a bell sounds; I can’t persuade children to feel some justice in their class placement when there isn’t any, and I can’t persuade children to believe teachers have valuable secrets they can acquire by becoming our disciples. That isn’t true."