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How will they learn to read? you ask, and my answer is Remember the lessons of Massachusetts. When children are given whole lives instead of age-graded ones in cellblocks, they learn to read, write, and do arithmetic with ease, if those things make sense in the kind of life that unfolds around them."
John Taylor Gatto
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I've come to believe that genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us... I began to wonder, reluctantly, whether it was possible that being in school itself was what was dumbing them down. Was it possible I had been hired not to enlarge children's power, but to diminish it? That seemed crazy on the face of it, but slowly I began to realize that the bells and the confinement, the crazy sequences, the age-segregation, the lack of privacy, the constant surveillance, and all the rest of national curriculum of schooling were designed exactly as if someone had set out to prevent children from learning how to think and act, to coax them into addiction and dependent behavior.

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I dont think well get rid of schools any time soon, certainly not in my lifetime, but if were going to change whats rapidly becoming a disaster of ignorance, we need to realize that the school institution "schools" very well, though it does not 'educate,' thats inherent in the design of the thing. Its not the fault of bad teachers or too little money spent. Its just impossible for education and schooling ever to be the same thing.

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