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John Taylor Gatto
“Children allowed to take responsibility and given a serious part in the larger world are always superior to those merely permitted to play and be passive.”
John Taylor Gatto, The Underground History of American Education: An Intimate Investigation Into the Prison of Modern Schooling

Amanda Ripley
“Statistically speaking, tracking tended to diminish learning and boost inequality wherever it was tried. In general, the younger tracking happened, the worse the entire country did on PISA. There seemed to be some kind of ghetto effect: once kids were labeled and segregated into the lower track, their learning slowed down.”
Amanda Ripley, The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way

John Taylor Gatto
“In our secular society, school has become the replacement for church, and like church it requires that its teachings must be taken on faith.”
John Taylor Gatto

Amanda Ripley
“We had the schools we wanted, in a way. Parents did not tend to show up at schools demanding that their kids be assigned more challenging reading or that their kindergarteners learn math while they still loved numbers. They did show up to complain about bad grades, however. And they came in droves, with video cameras and lawn chairs and full hearts, to watch their children play sports.”
Amanda Ripley, The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way

John Taylor Gatto
“When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling.”
John Taylor Gatto

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