21 years ago, John Taylor Gatto (a Teacher of the Year award recipient from New York) gave a speech to the Utah legislature. Its full of one-liners, such as: Right now we are engaged in the most colossal self-deception in history. School is not a way to learn. It is a jobs project, plain and simple. School is like a hospital where you go to get hurt. School, as we have arranged it, does not develop the mind. It bends minds to fit pre-arranged patterns. Standardized tests, like schools themselves, don’t work. And they have lost their moral legitimacy. They correlate with nothing of human value. Heres the entire speech, well worth reading.
Posted on: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 17:40:47 +0000
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