John Taylor Gatto: Schooling is not Education - Part 1

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.

For more information visit: www.johntaylorgatto.com

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[Petalklunk]

School is the closest thing on earth to hell itself.

[distressed7]

This is one of the main reasons why I have felt controlled and manipulated even when by myself. I have been fighting this system within all of my life. I grew up with education and TV. Never was I really free. The last attempt to be something collectively speaking came with the counter cultures culminating in the Hippy Movement that never is really taught.

[Vote4RonPaulLiberty]

I homeschool my child and let me tell you I've yet to find a libertarian homeschool group from which she can make friends. So far the groups seem to be as oppressive, structured, and establishment loving as is public school. Very disappointing.

[IWantMyVisionBack]

@OculiUbique

True words of wisdom!

Do not settle for complacency and mediocrity!

[IWantMyVisionBack]

@BigMessInPinkHeels

Stay strong my friend, stay strong.

I'm currently in my senior year of highschool and I understand how you feel. Your parents are just running a program where school is the norm and a must.

I don't want to tell you to endure the schooling, but maybe you can try and do homeschooling for take the ged during your first year of highschool.

Peace & Good Luck!

[TheChertron]

Turn on, tune in , drop out of college. Regardless of how well you do or resourceful a college is, time is wasted in not utilizing. luckily, I went somewhere that specialized in a 4yr learning trade. For my friends that went to state colleges, they still have no idea what they're doing, and feel useless still.

[tanrat7]

@Joe2000King thats a cold shot

[tanrat7]

@Joe2000King In one of gatto's videos, he talks about how in Switzerland, the wealthiest nation in Europe, only 1 out of every 4 children goes beyond elementary school. If so few people in Switzerland further their "education" then why is Switzerland so wealthy and prosperous? Apparently children dont need to go to school for as long as some people think.

[tanrat7]

@Joe2000King it's writing, not "wrighting" Learn to spell.

[tanrat7]

@Joe2000King When he was a teacher he was only doing what the school board told him to do, same with all teachers. However he left teaching because he no longer wanted to do what the school board wanted him to do and didnt want to keep "harming children", as he was quoted as saying.

[LadyRavenhaire]

@Joe2000King Evidently you are a product of the US education system!

[ion010101]

@OculiUbique Even if you just had an anxiety, school doesn't help. John Holt said, "the first lesson you learn in school is to seek out and have contempt for weakness in others". School preempts your time, so it's nigh impossible to ever grow out of anything; and it makes your problems worse than they would be otherwise. I did all my growing between age 20 and 40 that I should have been doing between 5 and 20.