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Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through The Dark World of Compulsory Schooling QUOTES

1 " Without clear awareness of the short arc of life, nothing means very much. "

― John Taylor Gatto , Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through The Dark World of Compulsory Schooling

2 " Wage-slaves, free in name only, are much cheaper to exploit, and work harder than slaves. "

― John Taylor Gatto , Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through The Dark World of Compulsory Schooling

3 " I've concluded that genius is as common as dirt. We suppress genius because we haven't yet figured out how to manage a population of educated men and women. The solution, I think, is simple and glorious. Let them manage themselves. "

― John Taylor Gatto , Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through The Dark World of Compulsory Schooling

4 " We don’t need state-certified teachers to make education happen — certification probably guarantees it won’t. "

― John Taylor Gatto , Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through The Dark World of Compulsory Schooling

5 " How many schoolteachers were aware of what they actually were a part of? Surely a number close to zero. In schoolteaching, as in hamburger-flipping, the paycheck is the decisive ingredient. No insult is meant, at bottom this is what realpolitik means. We all have to eat. "

― John Taylor Gatto , Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through The Dark World of Compulsory Schooling

6 " when competition is seen as essential to a good life, when winning against one’s neighbors is put at the heart of society, business thrives. To win, others have to lose: the more losers, the better winning feels. "

― John Taylor Gatto , Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through The Dark World of Compulsory Schooling

7 " ...nüfusu "idare edilebilir" kılmayı amaç edinmiş bir eğitim sistemi. "

― John Taylor Gatto , Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through The Dark World of Compulsory Schooling

8 " Not ortalaması."; evet, hepimizin bir not ortalaması var. "

― John Taylor Gatto , Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through The Dark World of Compulsory Schooling

9 " Avrupa'da diktatörlerin güç kullanıp zorlayarak yapmaya çalıştıklarını eğitim yoluyla başarmak. "

― John Taylor Gatto , Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through The Dark World of Compulsory Schooling

10 " Ya kendi senaryonuzu yazarsınız veya bir başkasının senaryosundan size biçilen rolü oynarsınız. "

― John Taylor Gatto , Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through The Dark World of Compulsory Schooling

11 " Senin diplomanda bir "tarih öğretmeni" olduğun yazıyor, oysa öğrettiğin şey propagandadan başka bir şey değil. "

― John Taylor Gatto , Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through The Dark World of Compulsory Schooling

12 " Size ezberlemeniz gerektiği söylenen şeyleri ezberleyerek özgür olamazsınız. "

― John Taylor Gatto , Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through The Dark World of Compulsory Schooling

13 " Her tercih, bir başka tercihi engeller. "

― John Taylor Gatto , Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through The Dark World of Compulsory Schooling

14 " ...hayatımı başka birinin el yazısındaki bir karaktermiş gibi yaşadım. "

― John Taylor Gatto , Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through The Dark World of Compulsory Schooling

15 " Güç, hiçbir zaman göründüğü yerde değildir. "

― John Taylor Gatto , Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through The Dark World of Compulsory Schooling

16 " ...vücutlar sosyal sınıfın görünür simgeleridir. "

― John Taylor Gatto , Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through The Dark World of Compulsory Schooling

17 " Çocukları aynı çatı altında toplayıp her türlü sorumluluk ve bağımsızlık duygusundan azade kılarak açgözlülük, fesatlık, kıskançlık ve korku gibi duyguların tohumlarının atılabileceğini, bu şekilde çocukların yaşça büyüseler de zihinsel anlamda çocuk kalmaya devam edeceklerini çok iyi biliyorlardı... Artık olgunluk, neredeyse hayatın her alanından söküp atılmıştır. Boşanmayı kolaylaştıran yasalar ilişkilere emek harcama ihtiyacını ortadan kaldırdı, kolay kredi imkanları kişinin finansal anlamda kendini kontrol etmesini gereksiz kıldı, kolay eğlence kendimizi eğlendirecek uğraşılara duyulan ihtiyacı yok etti, kolay cevaplar soru sorma ihtiyacını ortadan kaldırdı. Yargılarımızı ve irademizi normal şartlarda bir yetişkinin kendisine edilmiş bir hakaret olarak göreceği siyasi vaazların ve ticari kandırmacaların eline teslim eden çocuk bir millet olup çıktık. "

― John Taylor Gatto , Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through The Dark World of Compulsory Schooling

18 " What Hegel taught that intrigued the powerful then and now was that history could be deliberately managed by skillfully provoking crises out of public view and then demanding national unity to meet those crises — a disciplined unity under cover of which leadership privileges approached the absolute. "

― John Taylor Gatto , Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through The Dark World of Compulsory Schooling

19 " the incredible inventiveness of the American people, a natural by-product of three factors: an open-source learning tradition; a heterogeneous, mixed-age society which didn’t exclude the young from full participation; and a government presence without heavy-handedness. "

― John Taylor Gatto , Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through The Dark World of Compulsory Schooling

20 " The dark side of the Welfare State midwifed by Beatrice Webb and the Fabian socialists is not its superficial purpose of being kind, but its intention of killing with kindness, and thus protecting the interests of the better people, non-violently. "

― John Taylor Gatto , Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through The Dark World of Compulsory Schooling