John Taylor Gatto Quotes

Ashok Mehta did not go to any institute. He did not carry the baggage of formal education.

I quit school in ninth grade, even though I was good at the studies. I knew I didn't need school for what I wanted.

I've never studied anything formally. I was excluded from school at the age of 17, so I am an autodidact, which is a word that I have taught myself.

It sometimes seems as though we were trying to combine the ideal of no schools at all with the democratic ideal of schools for everybody by having schools without education.

As a writer, politician, scientist, and businessman, [Ben] Franklin had few equals among the educated of his day-though he left school at ten. (...)Boys like Andrew Carnegie who begged his mother not to send him to school and was well on his way to immortality and fortune at the age of thirteen, would be referred today for psychological counseling; Thomas Edison would find himself in Special Ed until his peculiar genius had been sufficiently tamed.

If Everybody In The World Dropped Out Of School We Would Have A Much More Intelligent Society.

Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out.

I educated myself. To me, school was boring.

I've never been a big believer in formal education.

Here's the thing: I consider myself pretty well - for somebody that didn't go to high school, pretty well educated.

I educate myself, but I haven't got the time or patience to enlist myself in a degree course. The world is my school.

As is true for most people I know, I've always loved learning. As is also true for most people I know, I always hated school. Why is that?

Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.

I think self-education is the greatest and best thing you could ever make.

Consequently, the only thing I learned in school was typing. In the old days, people like me who don't have college degrees had a hard time thriving in society. But today, the ability to learn on your own or from your peers has become really easy. I think this change is leading to a fundamental disruption in education. Independent and lifelong learning are really starting to peak - there is an inflection point coming around how people learn.

I loathed every day and regret every day I spent in school. I like to be taught to read and write and add and then be left alone.

Grandfather always said school’s a place where they take sixteen years to wear down your brain. Grandfather hardly went to school either.

The single most prevalent form of child abuse in this country is the act of sending a child to a government school. We worry incessantly about the separation of church and state. We would do well to devote half as much attention to the separation of government and education.

I pretty much left full-time, formal education when I was 11, so that was when I was taken out of the school system... The longest stretch I would go back for was a term and a half when I was about 14.

I didn't go to school a full year until I was 11 or 12, so I lived in books. I really was an observer of life.

Five years ago, Samira did not want to continue in the regular school system in Iran. To help her with her education, I set up a home school. It wasn't just for my family, it was open to other friends.

I'm actually the last person to ask about school. I kinda ducked out at 12, before all that stuff might have happened. I left school after sixth grade and was basically home-schooled after that.

There's a lot out there for me to learn that isn't in college, so I think it's fine for me if I don't go yet.

I had never attended high school, but I was fairly well read.

I didn't have much of a formal education myself.