Articles by John Taylor Gatto

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John Taylor Gatto’s Open Letters

To Donald Trump.

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4/27/2016

The Origin and Evil of Compulsory Schooling

An eye-opening seminar with John Taylor Gatto.

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3/15/2012

Be Like the Chechens

Refuse to submit to the oppressors, says John Taylor Gatto.

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10/11/2010

School Is a Liar’s World

Let's be done with it, says John Taylor Gatto.

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10/6/2010

World Government, World Corporation

John Taylor Gatto on the inevitable end-state of public schooling.

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10/6/2010

The Cult of Forced Schooling

John Taylor Gatto on a conspiracy against ourselves.

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10/4/2010

The Psychopathology of Everyday Schooling

John Taylor Gatto on compulsory government indoctrination factories.

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9/30/2010

Students Have Freedom of Speech and the Press

Unless the subject is religion. John Taylor Gatto on public schools and God.

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9/29/2010

The Empty Child

John Taylor Gatto on the lasting effects of public school.

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9/27/2010

Rockefeller vs. Your Children

John Taylor Gatto on the power elite's public schools.

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9/16/2010

Decivilizing Children

John Taylor Gatto on public schools.

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9/14/2010

Growing Up in the Old America

John Taylor Gatto on what made him the man he is.

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9/10/2010

The Cult of ‘Scientific Management’

Of public school children and all the non-elite.

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9/6/2010

A Coal-Fired Dream World

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9/4/2010

The Prussian Connection

John Taylor Gatto on Prussia and compulsory public schools.

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9/3/2010

The Lure of Utopia

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9/2/2010

Your Children Are Just Test Animals

In the unspeakable mazes of the public schools.

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9/1/2010

I’m Outta Here

John Taylor Gatto on quitting the spittle-ridden, anti-child public schools.

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8/31/2010

Waging War on God and Family

John Taylor Gatto on the real nature of American public schools.

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8/30/2010

Forced Mass Schooling of the Young

It was created by corporatists and politicians for their own rotten purposes. Article by John Taylor Gatto.

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8/27/2010

Public Schools Have Wrecked America

John Taylor Gatto on why, and what to do about it.

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8/26/2010

‘Bianca, You Animal, Shut Up!’

John Taylor Gatto on child destruction and forced schooling.

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8/23/2010

A Very Profitable, Very Destructive Monopoly

John Taylor Gatto on public schools.

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7/22/2010

Public School Lies

John Taylor Gatto on what really matters for children and the future of civilization.

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7/6/2010

Why Government Schools Don’t Educate

Their goal is to produce human beings whose behavior can be predicted and controlled, says John Taylor Gatto.

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6/30/2010

Public School Is a 12-Year Jail Sentence

And bad habits are all that the inmates truly learn, says John Taylor Gatto.

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6/22/2010

Against Schools

John Taylor Gatto on how public education cripples children, and why.

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6/19/2010