john taylor gatto Archives • Doing What Matters with Janice Campbell https://doingwhatmatters.com/tag/john-taylor-gatto/ Cultivating creativity, wisdom, and virtue in education, entrepreneurship, and soul care. Fri, 13 Oct 2023 18:18:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/doingwhatmatters.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/house-tree-512od.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 john taylor gatto Archives • Doing What Matters with Janice Campbell https://doingwhatmatters.com/tag/john-taylor-gatto/ 32 32 89931359 Great Education Quotes https://doingwhatmatters.com/great-education-quotes/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/great-education-quotes/#respond Thu, 31 Jan 2013 00:01:15 +0000 http://www.janice-campbell.com/?p=1051 Here is a collection of favorite quotes on lifelong learning, learning and freedom, unschooling, institutional schooling, homeschooling and general truth about learning by speakers from C.S. Lewis and Charlotte Mason to Aristotle and Mark Twain.

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]]> https://doingwhatmatters.com/great-education-quotes/feed/ 0 1051 What Happens When Teachers Aren’t Allowed to Teach https://doingwhatmatters.com/what-happens-when-teachers-arent-allowed-to-teach/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/what-happens-when-teachers-arent-allowed-to-teach/#respond Tue, 08 Jan 2013 10:32:39 +0000 http://www.janice-campbell.com/?p=1007 In a video that reminds me of some of John Taylor Gatto‘s work, Stephen Round, a dedicated second-grade teacher reads his letter of resignation from the Rhode Island school system. Here are a few points Mr. Round makes in the...

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]]> https://doingwhatmatters.com/three-books-for-the-homeschool-journey/feed/ 1 928 Gatto’s 7 Lessons of Compulsory Schooling https://doingwhatmatters.com/gattos-7-lessons-of-compulsory-schooling/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/gattos-7-lessons-of-compulsory-schooling/#respond Tue, 23 Aug 2011 18:16:28 +0000 http://www.janice-campbell.com/?p=692 Here are seven horrifying lessons John Taylor Gatto wrote about teaching during his 26 years as a schoolteacher. Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling is adapted from a speech given at a ceremony in which Gatto was named the New York State Teacher of the Year for 1991.

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