"Government schooling is the most radical adventure in history. It kills the family by monopolizing the best times of childhood and by teaching disrespect for home and parents."

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Source : "I Quit, I Think," The Wall Street Journal, en.wikiquote.org. July 25, 1991.

John Taylor Gatto

#Teaching Quotes #Home Quotes #Adventure Quotes

“In less than a year Revolution has gone from being a concept to a reality, with three rapidly growing sector companies, overseeing a dozen acquired firms that collectively employ more than 2,500 people. But we're just scratching the surface in terms of the potential to build Revolution into a new kind of company that gives consumers more choice, control and convenience in the important aspects of their lives.”
“I seem to thrive by destroying the last thing I did, in a kind of cartoon Nietzsche way. Emerson says in "Experience" something like "every ultimate fact soon becomes the next in a series." The self feels more real when you are destroying things you've made than when you are paying them homage. That's the good news about being self-destructive. The bad news, I feel I don't need to deliver.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.”
“I love coffee in a cup, little fuzzy pups, bourbon in a glass, and grass.”

Source : Song: I Love, Album: Country Songs for Children, 1995
“We are all the foolishness and all the crimes we did. We're also all the kindnesses we did. I hate to think of life as if we understood time. We don't understand time.”
“Treat everyone on the organization with respect and dignity whether it be the janitor or the president.”

Source : Richard Moran (2009). “Nuts, Bolts and Jolts”, p.211, iUniverse
“A burnt finger remember the fire.”
“I mean, 'Kids In The Hall' is the reason I have any career at all.”

Source : "The Kids In The Hall, part 1". Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. June 30, 2004.

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