Nick B. (yojimbonick) reviewed The Exhausted School: The First National Grassroots Speakout on the Right to School Choice on + 11 more book reviews
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Because Frances Zimmer of Monogahela and Andrew Gatto of Pittsburgh -- my mother and father -- taught me to live reading and numbers long before I went to the first grade, and because neither of the had any college, I slowly came to realize that my work as a school-teacher (even my work as "New York State Teacher of the Year"), was not what it appeared to be. Public schooling is NOT public education. The two ideas are mutually exclusive. Government compulsion schooling is a behavior clinic, and indoctrination scheme so far removed from what history regards as education in and part of the world that we are what history regards as education in any part of the world that we are justified in crying out Enough! In the Name of decendy, enough!" I engaged Carnegie Hall to show people like myself what choice means.
John Taylor Gatto
Because Frances Zimmer of Monogahela and Andrew Gatto of Pittsburgh -- my mother and father -- taught me to live reading and numbers long before I went to the first grade, and because neither of the had any college, I slowly came to realize that my work as a school-teacher (even my work as "New York State Teacher of the Year"), was not what it appeared to be. Public schooling is NOT public education. The two ideas are mutually exclusive. Government compulsion schooling is a behavior clinic, and indoctrination scheme so far removed from what history regards as education in and part of the world that we are what history regards as education in any part of the world that we are justified in crying out Enough! In the Name of decendy, enough!" I engaged Carnegie Hall to show people like myself what choice means.
John Taylor Gatto
