“There isn’t a right way to be educated; there are as many ways as there are fingerprints. We don't need state-certified teachers to make education happen — that probably guarantees it won't.”

— John Taylor Gatto

"I Quit, I Think" (1991)

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American teacher, book author 1935–2018

John Taylor Gatto (1935–2018) American teacher, book author

Source: "I Quit, I Think" (1991)

“What's gotten in the way of education in the United States is a theory of social engineering that says there is ONE RIGHT WAY to proceed with growing up.”

John Taylor Gatto (1935–2018) American teacher, book author

Source: Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling (1992), p. 68

“Every person might not be a teacher, yet has no right not to be an educator, for we are talking about the importance of moral education.”

Zafar Mirzo (1972)

“The educated don't get that way by memorizing facts; they get that way by respecting them.”

Tom Heehler American author

The Well-Spoken Thesaurus (2011)

“Education is the great equalizer in society. It is the best way to guarantee that all Filipinos, regardless of station in life, get an equal opportunity to a better life.”

Francis Escudero (1969) Filipino politician

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“According to Plato, we don't learn anything. Our soul has lived so many lives that we know everything. Teachers and education can only remind us of what we already know.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Diary

Source: Diary

“Writing graffiti is about the most honest way you can be an artist. It takes no money to do it, you don't need an education to understand it and there's no admission fee.”

Banksy pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, and painter

(Tristan Manco. Stencil Graffiti)
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“Thinking doesn't guarantee that we won't make mistakes. But not thinking guarantees that we will.”

Leslie Lamport (1941) American computer scientist

In [Lamport, Leslie, Why We Should Build Software Like We Build Houses, https://www.wired.com/2013/01/code-bugs-programming-why-we-need-specs/, Wired Magazine, 17 January 2020, January 25, 2013]

“We learned not to meet anymore,
We don't raise our eyes to one another,
But we ourselves won't guarantee
What could happen to us in an hour.”

Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966) Russian modernist poet

Source: The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

“Quality management is a systematic way of guaranteeing that organized activities happen the way they are planned.”

Philip B. Crosby (1926–2001) Quality guru

Source: Quality Is Free, 1977, p. 22

“There isn’t a right way to be educated; there are as many ways as there are fingerprints. We don't need state-certified teachers to make education happen — that probably guarantees it won't.”

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