John Taylor Gatto: Schooling is not Education - Part 2

***Stay tuned for the next several parts...

In this 1991 interview, former school teacher John Taylor Gatto talks about the difference between "schooling" through public schools and true education. What really matters? Does "Schooling" as we know it today create whole human beings?

I hope that you find this interview as inspiring and informative as I did.

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[74u73hjd]

Do schools kill creativity? If creativity was a person schools would be it's concentration camp! I think that young people are going through a creativity holocaust perpetrated by teachers especially ones who hate their jobs. Everyone who agrees this is a disgusting inconvenient truth give me a thumbs up. BTW I'm only twenty years old and I understand this.

[forgetfulmuse]

Hands up who still has school nightmares! I'm 37 and I still have them. Why would I send my kids to a place like that? Just looking at schools gives me the willies.

[kozychik]

What if, instead on having such specific, monotonous jobs, like janitor, we incorporate those duties into the jobs of the other workers. For instance, office workers and teachers could empty their own garbage and do some light cleaning. Janitorial jobs could be part time so that janitors could divert some of their time and energy to more challenging and satisfying pursuits.

The way it is now seems like we just sacrifice a certain segment of society to be the slaves and do our dirty work.

[kozychik]

@myeyeshurt5566 Hey, your channel says you're 24; but this comment says you're 16. 16 to 24 in one year? That's impressive. Was just wondering (based on the comment) how you (or the 16yr old who posted the comment) was doing now.

[messthetics]

Some of the most insightful, compassionate and interesting people i know were home schooled. They weren't isolated in any way either because they took part in many clubs and activities alongside their education. They never fell in to peer pressure and always made decisions for themselves. They were less anxious, more self assured and self reliant.

[MiroMiroSune]

After years of compulsory education I finally fell into line in year nine. My grades went up and my mental state grew worse. My junior year was the worst and best year of my high school career for one reason: I realized everything this man said. A movement began within me, after the first quarter I started to rebel against it all. My grades plummeted and I had the best year of my life. My eyes had opened. That was my worst year of high school, and yet I learned more than I ever had in 11 years.

[asubjectiveopinion]

So this guy is a conspiracy theorist who has plagarised Ivan Illych and John Holt in order to sell their ideas to the right?

Clever idea, I bet he's made a packet.

[yTubeBlowsBigBalls]

Look people, school is really important but it's not everything because without a community and wisdom of the ages children will be lost to irrelevance and the contemporary zeitgeist.

[Cacowninja]

@jmrogers1000 I totally agree with you, sometimes when people bash homeschooling and say you need to go to school to be social/or they boss people around not to homeschool their kids I feel like saying to them SHUT THE FUCK UP GET THE FUCK OUT OF THIS COUNTRY AND GET A LIFE!!!!!!!! But that would be immature and rude to say that. It just makes my blood boil though. Man some people are sheep (like my dad heh) and believe in compulsory education crap. And some people like to boss others around.

[TenderTrap86]

@TheGodson777 We HAVE to get degrees? HAVE to? Absolutely HAVE to? Why?

[silverferriel]

Great for all of you that you don't have to work and can homeschool your little darlings. For the rest of us in the real world, it's not that simple. My children take music, art, motion therapy (OT) languages, etc.. These teachers have specialized degrees in music, therapy, and art. Do YOU have the proper education to teach specialized subjects? The home schooled kids in our community are not allowed to play with our neighborhood kids. Great message to send kids that they are better, sad...

[TheGodson777]

@forgetfulmuse i agree with you, but what is the other alternative for your kids?

I mean , at the end of the day, we have to go to get our degrees. Otherwise, he/she won't be able to get a job that requires degree. Nowadays everything requires degree at least the best jobs...

once again, I embrace this idea but what are the altenatives? Home schooling are not bad either, but you isolate your kid and make him an unsocial person in a society! So, if you have any ideas, feel free to share :)