John Taylor Gatto – On education

Sun, Jul 5, 2009

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WATCH IN HIGH QUALITY www.youtube.com John Taylor Gatto on the Alex Jones radio show www.johntaylorgatto.com Gatto MP3 archive: www.altruists.org

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25 Comments For This Post

  1. ThaRussian Says:

    Boredom is their excuse for not having the inspiration to educate themselves, little do they know that inspiration comes from within, it is intrinsic

  2. leavesof3 Says:

    They are not bored. They are apathetic. They’ve given up hope of anything better, deeper, more real. They seek distraction to forget. I don’t blame them. I am strongly tempted myself sometimes.

  3. Re3volution Says:

    beautiful analogy. thanks man

  4. winbri5 Says:

    and now they want Universal pre K and my sorry ass friends….think that this is so wonderful for their children…..we are in big trouble!

  5. 74u73hjd Says:

    College is the most addictive harmful drug on earth… but the government encourages it.

  6. Re3volution Says:

    I am fucking pist off!!!! Thanks for waking me up, I cant believe I didn’t see this before!

  7. xXU2BerXx Says:

    John Taylor Gatto is a guest on Coast-to-Coast-AM with George Noory tonight,that’s what drew me here,and I look forward to listening to it.

  8. 74u73hjd Says:

    Do schools kill creativity? If creativity was a person schools would be it’s concentration camp! I think that young people are going through a creativity holocaust perpetrated by teachers especially ones who hate their jobs. Everyone who agrees this is a disgusting inconvenient truth give me a thumbs up. BTW I’m only twenty years old and I understand this.

  9. nomed44 Says:

    teach them words meanings and how to form sentences, and read write

    but mostly tell them to READ, and KEEP reading, and never stop, dont watch THE Movie of what you think will be good, READ the BOOK first,

    hopefully they will find out the truths of the world, and intime be the leaders of the world
    not this point 0001 elite that rule over the world

  10. MaxLibertas Says:

    Oh man! How is it that I’ve never heard of this man? He’s brilliant. I’m learning so much.

  11. WyldeProdigy Says:

    Tha Russian, you said it perfect!!!

  12. yomamalikedit Says:

    that is the sad truth my friend… we are a society of dumbed down “hoi polloi” who dont care about the bigger picture… u can lead the horse to the water, but…

  13. djlookwood Says:

    Gatto’s book “Weapons of Mass Instruction” is a great read! His main book is free online, rivetting stuff, shocking….. really is bad… teachers are people, and vary, and the system is the system, and it’s impervious to tinkering.

  14. hubristime Says:

    Thanks.

  15. juegas Says:

    wow don’t kid yourself your comment kicked some serious ass.

  16. tiecuando Says:

    Got a link?

  17. hubristime Says:

    We do it to produce willing individuals who will fight for their country and make war so the military industrial etc. complex can make money and control us. That’s why.

    Brainwashing is a requirment for the indoctrination to work. Actually, indoctrination is the brainwashing. When a club is made that has the highest say on medicine (AMA) it is no wonder most doctors peddle drugs these days instead of providing healing.

    Good comment..thumbs up.

  18. caseybritton Says:

    its really f**king simple:

    REPLACE PUBLIC SCHOOLS WITH NOTHING!
    STOP FORCING PEOPLE TO PAY FOR GOVERNMENT CONTROLLED SCHOOLS!

    sheeple need to understand that people have to be FREE to use their money on education as THEY SEE FIT!

    the government doesn’t provide us with food and force us to pay for government controlled fast food joints, and we aren’t forced to only go to the fast food place next to our house…..WHY DO WE DO THAT EXACT SAME THING WITH EDUCATION?

  19. Xeletoph Says:

    It’s easy to remedy that. Add the video to your favorites and it’ll be more likely to appear in the filters when somebody looks for something. You can also share and feature videos that you think are important. The sheer number of lives you can touch will be uncountable. Still you can only show people the door… Even so, at least you’re part of the solution.

  20. ThaRussian Says:

    yea that’s just sad, this video only has 13,000 views, but if you type in something random like “funny shit” you find a video that has almost 3 million views and its been on youtube for a shorter period of time, this proves that ppl are wasting their time “because they’re bored” rather than attempting to gain knowledge and learn various perspectives

  21. badjesus666 Says:

    Watch Doctor Timothy Leary’s video How To Operate Your Brain.

  22. badjesus666 Says:

    All over the world, the victors write the history… and it’s often totally one sided, there are always two sides to every story.

  23. mojojames10 Says:

    I noticed how much of a sham the education system is which caused trouble for me at grammar school for expressing my reluctancy to partake in their corrupt programme, I am glad to recently discover voices that share and explain the history about what I concluded about the educational system, and am willing to use what I learn through my degree in a media background to voice truths which should have been heard years ago through the same channels which have been brain washing us today.

  24. mojojames10 Says:

    I am a 19 year old undergraduate student from England, I think that the dumbing down of general publics can be dramatically proven simply by noticing that this video has just over 12,000 views (at present) when a video of a “happyslapper” can achieve an audience of millions, people are literally searching for the wrong answers. At the age of 16 upward

  25. Nielsio Says:

    My suggestion would be to go to the website of the Mises Institute and start listening to alternative ideas on the lessons of history.

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