"I feel ashamed that so many of us cannot imagine a better way to do things than locking children up all day in cells instead of letting them grow up knowing their families, mingling with the world, assuming real obligations, striving to be independent and self-reliant and free."

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Source : John Taylor Gatto (2000). “A Different Kind of Teacher: Solving the Crisis of American Schooling”

John Taylor Gatto

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“Catherine Deneuve is the man I've always wanted to be.”
“It's a simple solution. You change one thing, and suddenly you've changed everything.”
“If you, however, separate reason and faith so that it's purely a rationalistic scheme, it will end in violence. If a pure faith scheme - sometimes called the fundamentalist scheme in modern parlance - you'll end in violence too.”

Source : Source: www.realclearreligion.org
“I've always been a fan of vinyl. There's something about the ritual of it. Something about it holds its gravity, for some reason. Sometimes you'll put on music and the music fades into the background. But when you take that vinyl out and put it down, the music becomes the conversation as opposed to being the soundtrack to it.”
“Outsiders have the intuitive ability to continually view problems in fresh ways and to identify ineffective practices and traditions.”
“New Jersey boasts the highest percentage of passport holders (68%); Delaware (67%), Alaska (65%), Massachusetts (63%), New York (62%), and California (60%) are close behind. At the opposite end of the spectrum, less than one in five residents of Mississippi are passport holders, and just one in four residents of West Virginia, Kentucky, Alabama, and Arkansas.”
“...because he had been waiting for someone to come back to him, so every time someone knocked on the door, he couldn't stop himself from hoping it might be that person, even though he knew he shouldn't hope.”
“A man who thinks too much about his ancestors is like a potato-the best part of him is underground.”

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