John Taylor Gatto idézet

John Taylor Gatto amerikai író és korábbi iskolai tanár. Energiája nagy részét tanári pályájába fektette, és miután lemondott állásáról, számos könyvet írt a modern kötelező iskolarendszerről, hevesen kritizálva annak ideológiai hátterét, történelmét és következményeit. Írásai közül legismertebbek: Dumbing Us Down: the Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling és The Underground History of American Education: A Schoolteacher’s Intimate Investigation Into the Problem of Modern Schooling.

Gatto többször elnyerte New York város Az Év Oktatója címét: New York City Teacher of the Year 1989, 1990, 1991. Továbbá megkapta New York Állam Az Év Oktatója címét is 1991-ben. Wikipedia  

✵ 15. december 1935 – 25. október 2018   •   Más nevek ジョン・テイラー・ガット
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“The primary goal of real education is not to deliver facts but to guide students to the truths that will allow them to take responsibility for their lives.”

Forrás: A Different Kind of Teacher: Solving the Crisis of American Schooling, Berkeley Hills Books (2000) p. 178

“Schooling is organized by command and control from without; education is self-organized from within…”

Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling (2008)
Forrás: Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling, New Society Publishers (2013) p. 177

“Schools teach exactly what they are intended to teach and they do it well: how to be a good Egyptian and remain in your place in the pyramid.”

John Taylor Gatto könyv Dumbing Us Down

Forrás: Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling (1992), p. 14

“School trains children to be employees and consumers; teach your own to be leaders and adventurers. School trains children to obey reflexively; teach your own to think critically and independently.”

Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling (2008)
Forrás: Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling, New Society Publishers (2013) p. xxii

“The idea of schooling free men in anything would have revolted Athenians. Forced training was for slaves. Among free men, learning was self-discipline, not the gift of experts.”

John Taylor Gatto könyv The Underground History of American Education

Forrás: The Underground History of American Education: An Intimate Investigation Into the Prison of Modern Schooling (2001), p. 62

“Schools are intended to produce, through the application of formulas, formulaic human beings whose behavior can be predicted and controlled.”

John Taylor Gatto könyv Dumbing Us Down

Forrás: Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling (1992), p. 23

“School is a twelve-year jail sentence where bad habits are the only curriculum truly learned. I teach school and win awards doing it. I should know.”

John Taylor Gatto könyv Dumbing Us Down

Forrás: Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling (1992), p. 19

“[M]andatory public education in this country … was useful in creating not only a harmless electorate and a servile labor force but also a virtual herd of mindless consumers. In time a great number of industrial titans came to recognize the enormous profits to be had by cultivating and tending such a herd via public education.”

Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling (2008)
Forrás: Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling, New Society Publishers (2013) pp. xix-xx

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